חָיָה

cha.yah · to live

Hebrew · Strong's H2421 · Verb · Sounds like: khaw-yaw' · 282 occurrences

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)

Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
חָיָה 283 vb. live
Qal 203
1. live
2. be quickened, revive
Pi.
1. preserve alive, let live
2. give life
3. quicken, revive, refresh
Hiph.
1. preserve alive, let live
2. quicken, revive

Every occurrence

  1. Zechariah 1:5 יִֽחְיֽוּ׃ Yich.Yu · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by them

    Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?

  2. Zechariah 10:9 וְחָי֥וּ ve.cha.Yu · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by them

    And I will sow them among the peoples; and they shall remember me in far countries; and they shall live with their children, and shall return.

  3. Zechariah 13:3 תִֽחְיֶ֔ה tich.Yeh · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by you

    And it shall come to pass that, when any shall yet prophesy, then his father and his mother that begat him shall say unto him, Thou shalt not live; for thou speakest lies in the name of Jehovah; and his father and his mother that begat him shall thrust him through when he prophesieth.

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