מִחְיָה

mich.yah · recovery

Hebrew · Strong's H4241 · Noun · Sounds like: mikh-yaw' · 8 occurrences

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

  1. Judges 6:4 מִֽחְיָה֙ mich.Yah · A person, place or thing

    and they encamped against them, and destroyed the increase of the earth, till thou come unto Gaza, and left no sustenance in Israel, neither sheep, nor ox, nor ass.

  2. Judges 17:10 וּמִחְיָתֶ֑ךָ u.mich.ya.Te.kha · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And Micah said unto him, Dwell with me, and be unto me a father and a priest, and I will give thee ten pieces of silver by the year, and a suit of apparel, and thy victuals. So the Levite went in.

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