חָיָה

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.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (public domain)

Every occurrence

1. Numbers 4:19 וְחָיוּ֙ ve.cha.Yu · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by them

   but thus do unto them, that they may live, and not die, when they approach unto the most holy things: Aaron and his sons shall go in, and appoint them every one to his service and to his burden;

2. Numbers 14:38 חָיוּ֙ cha.Yu · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by them

   But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, remained alive of those men that went to spy out the land.

3. Numbers 21:8 וָחָֽי׃ va.Chai · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by him, her or it

   And Jehovah said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a standard: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he seeth it, shall live.

4. Numbers 21:9 וָחָֽי׃ va.Chai · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by him, her or it

   And Moses made a serpent of brass, and set it upon the standard: and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he looked unto the serpent of brass, he lived.

5. Numbers 22:33 הֶחֱיֵֽיתִי׃ he.che.Yei.ti · An action: causing it, finished, with a lasting result, done by me

   and the ass saw me, and turned aside before me these three times: unless she had turned aside from me, surely now I had even slain thee, and saved her alive.

6. Numbers 24:23 יִחְיֶ֖ה yich.Yeh · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

   And he took up his parable, and said, Alas, who shall live when God doeth this?

7. Numbers 31:15 הַֽחִיִּיתֶ֖ם ha.chi.yi.Tem · An action: strong action, finished, with a lasting result, done by all of you

   And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive?

8. Numbers 31:18 הַחֲי֖וּ ha.cha.Yu · A command to all of you: causing it

   But all the women-children, that have not known man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.

American Standard Version (1901). Public domain.