Word meanings
Strong's dictionary
from חָיָה; preservation of life; hence, sustenance; also the live flesh, i.e. the quick; preserve life, quick, recover selves, reviving, sustenance, victuals.
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (public domain)
Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
מִחְיָה n.f. preservation of life, sustenance
1. preservation of life
2. sustenance
3. reviving
4. the quick
Every occurrence
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2 Chronicles 14:13 מִֽחְיָ֔ה mich.Yah · A person, place or thing
And Asa and the people that were with him pursued them unto Gerar: and there fell of the Ethiopians so many that they could not recover themselves; for they were destroyed before Jehovah, and before his host; and they carried away very much booty.
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