Strong's #4241: michyah (pronounced mikh-yaw')

from 2421; preservation of life; hence, sustenance; also the live flesh, i.e. the quick:--preserve life, quick, recover selves, reviving, sustenance, victuals.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

michyâh

1) preservation of life, sustenance

1a) preservation of life

1b) sustenance

1c) reviving

1d) the quick of the flesh, live flesh, tender or raw flesh

Part of Speech: noun feminine

Relation: from H2421

Usage:

This word is used 8 times:

 

Genesis 45:5: "God did send me before you to preserve life."
Leviticus 13:10: "have turned the hair white, and there be quick raw flesh in the rising;"
Leviticus 13:24: "in the skin whereof there is a hot burning, and the quick flesh that burneth have a white bright spot,"
Judges 6:4: "unto Gaza, and left no sustenance for Israel, neither sheep, nor ox, nor ass."
Judges 17:10: "by the year, and a suit of apparel, and thy victuals. So the Levite went in."
2 Chronicles 14:13: "and the Ethiopians were overthrown, that they could not recover themselves; for they were destroyed before"
Ezra 9:8: "may lighten our eyes, and give us a little reviving in our bondage."
Ezra 9:9: "of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God,"