Strong's #2425: chayay (pronounced khaw-yah'-ee)
a primitive root (compare 2421); to live; causatively to revive:--live, save life.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
châyay
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 H2421]
Usage:
This word is used 15 times:
Genesis 3:22: "of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever:"
Genesis 5:5: "the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty"
Genesis 11:12: "And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begot Salah:"
Genesis 11:14: "And Salah lived thirty years, and begot Eber:"
Exodus 1:16: "him: but if it be a daughter, then she shall live."
Exodus 33:20: "there shall no man see me, and live."
Leviticus 18:5: "which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the LORD."
Numbers 21:8: "that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live."
Numbers 21:9: "when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived."
Deuteronomy 4:42: "and that fleeing unto one of these cities he might live:"
Deuteronomy 5:24: "God doth talk with man, and he liveth."
Deuteronomy 19:4: "which shall flee thither, that he may live: Whoso killeth his neighbor"
Deuteronomy 19:5: "one of those cities, and live:"
Nehemiah 6:11: "being as I am, would go into the temple to save his life? I will not go in."
Jeremiah 38:2: "for he shall have his life for a prey, and shall live."
