Word meanings
Strong's dictionary
a primitive root (compare חָוָה, חָיָה); to live, whether literally or figuratively; causatively, to revive; keep (leave, make) alive, [idiom] certainly, give (promise) life, (let, suffer to) live, nourish up, preserve (alive), quicken, recover, repair, restore (to life), revive, ([idiom] God) save (alive, life, lives), [idiom] surely, be whole.
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Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
Every occurrence
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Nehemiah 2:3 יִחְיֶ֑ה yich.Yeh · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it
And I said unto the king, Let the king live for ever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' sepulchres, lieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire?
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Nehemiah 4:2 הַיְחַיּ֧וּ hay.chai.Yu · An action: strong action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by them
And he spake before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What are these feeble Jews doing? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, seeing they are burned?
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Nehemiah 5:2 וְנִחְיֶֽה׃ ve.nich.Yeh · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by us
For there were that said, We, our sons and our daughters, are many: let us get grain, that we may eat and live.
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Nehemiah 6:11 וָחָ֑י va.Chai · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by him, her or it
And I said, Should such a man as I flee? and who is there, that, being such as I, would go into the temple to save his life? I will not go in.
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Nehemiah 9:6 מְחַיֶּ֣ה me.chai.Yeh · An -ing word: strong action
Thou art Jehovah, even thou alone; thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth and all things that are thereon, the seas and all that is in them, and thou preservest them all; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee.
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Nehemiah 9:29 וְחָיָ֣ה ve.cha.Yah · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by him, her or it
and testifiedst against them, that thou mightest bring them again unto thy law. Yet they dealt proudly, and hearkened not unto thy commandments, but sinned against thine ordinances, (which if a man do, he shall live in them), and withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear.
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