Strong's #2421: chayah (pronounced khaw-yaw')
a primitive root (compare 2331, 2421); to live, whether literally or figuratively; causatively, to revive:--keep (leave, make) alive, X certainly, give (promise) life, (let, suffer to) live, nourish up, preserve (alive), quicken, recover, repair, restore (to life), revive, (X God) save (alive, life, lives), X surely, be whole.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
châyâh
1) to live, have life, remain alive, sustain life, live prosperously, live for ever, be quickened, be alive, be restored to life or health
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to live
1a1a) to have life
1a1b) to continue in life, remain alive
1a1c) to sustain life, to live on or upon
1a1d) to live (prosperously)
1a2) to revive, be quickened
1a2a) from sickness
1a2b) from discouragement
1a2c) from faintness
1a2d) from death
1b) (Piel)
1b1) to preserve alive, let live
1b2) to give life
1b3) to quicken, revive, refresh
1b3a) to restore to life
1b3b) to cause to grow
1b3c) to restore
1b3d) to revive
1c) (Hiphil)
1c1) to preserve alive, let live
1c2) to quicken, revive
1c2a) to restore (to health)
1c2b) to revive
1c2c) to restore to life
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root [compare H2331, H2421]
Usage:
This word is used 264 times:
Genesis 5:3: "And Adam lived a hundred and thirty years, and begot a son in his own likeness, after his image;"
Genesis 5:6: "And Seth lived a hundred and five years, and begot Enos:"
Genesis 5:7: "And Seth lived after he begot Enos eight hundred"
Genesis 5:9: "And Enos lived ninety years, and begot Cainan:"
Genesis 5:10: "And Enos lived after he begot Cainan eight hundred"
Genesis 5:12: "And Cainan lived seventy years, and begot Mahalaleel:"
Genesis 5:13: "And Cainan lived after he begot Mahalaleel eight hundred"
Genesis 5:15: "And Mahalaleel lived sixty and five years, and begot Jared:"
Genesis 5:16: "And Mahalaleel lived after he begot Jared eight hundred"
Genesis 5:18: "And Jared lived a hundred sixty and two years, and he begot"
Genesis 5:19: "And Jared lived after he begot Enoch eight hundred"
Genesis 5:21: "And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begot Methuselah:"
Genesis 5:25: "And Methuselah lived a hundred eighty and seven years, and begot"
Genesis 5:26: "And Methuselah lived after he begot Lamech seven hundred"
Genesis 5:28: "And Lamech lived a hundred eighty and two years, and begot a son:"
Genesis 5:30: "And Lamech lived after he begot Noah five hundred"
Genesis 6:19: "two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with"
Genesis 6:20: "after his kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive."
Genesis 7:3: "by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face"
Genesis 9:28: "And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years."
Genesis 11:11: "And Shem lived after he begot Arphaxad five hundred"
Genesis 11:13: "And Arphaxad lived after he begot Salah four hundred"
Genesis 11:15: "And Salah lived after he begot Eber four hundred"
Genesis 11:16: "And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begot Peleg:"
Genesis 11:17: "And Eber lived after he begot Peleg four hundred"
Genesis 11:18: "And Peleg lived thirty years, and begot Reu:"
Genesis 11:19: "And Peleg lived after he begot Reu two hundred and nine"
Genesis 11:20: "And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begot Serug:"
Genesis 11:21: "And Reu lived after he begot Serug two hundred and seven"
Genesis 11:22: "And Serug lived thirty years, and begot Nahor:"
Genesis 11:23: "And Serug lived after he begot Nahor two hundred years,"
Genesis 11:24: "And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begot Terah:"
Genesis 11:25: "And Nahor lived after he begot Terah a hundred and nineteen"
Genesis 11:26: "And Terah lived seventy years, and begot Abram,"
Genesis 12:12: "This is his wife: and they will kill me, but they will save thee alive."
Genesis 12:13: "it may be well with me for thy sake; and my soul shall live because of"
Genesis 17:18: "God, O that Ishmael might live before"
Genesis 19:19: "which thou hast showed unto me in saving my life; and I cannot"
Genesis 19:20: "not a little one?) and my soul shall live."
Genesis 19:32: "wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father."
Genesis 19:34: "also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father."
Genesis 20:7: "is a prophet, and he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live: and if thou restore her not, know"
Genesis 27:40: "And by shalt thou live, and shalt serve thy brother; and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion,"
Genesis 31:32: "thy gods, let him not live: before our brethren discern thou what"
Genesis 42:2: "thither, and buy for us from thence; that we may live, and not die."
Genesis 42:18: "day, This do, and live; for I fear God:"
Genesis 43:8: "with me, and we will arise and go; that we may live, and not die, both we,"
Genesis 45:7: "you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance."
Genesis 45:27: "to carry him, the spirit of Jacob their father revived:"
Genesis 47:19: "unto Pharaoh: and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, that the land be not desolate."
