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:
2 Samuel 16:16: "Absalom, God save the king, God save the king."
1 Kings 1:25: "and drink before him, and say, God save king Adonijah."
1 Kings 1:31: "Let my lord king David live forever."
1 Kings 1:34: "and blow ye with the trumpet, and say, God save king Solomon."
1 Kings 1:39: "and all the people said, God save king Solomon."
1 Kings 17:22: "and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived."
1 Kings 18:5: "peradventure we may find grass to save the horses and mules alive, that we lose not"
1 Kings 20:31: "the king of Israel: peradventure he will save thy life."
1 Kings 20:32: "saith, I pray thee, let me live. And he said, Is he yet alive? he"
2 Kings 1:2: "the god of Ekron whether I shall recover of this disease."
2 Kings 4:7: "and pay thy debt, and live thou and thy children of the rest."
2 Kings 5:7: "Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man doth send unto"
2 Kings 7:4: "the host of the Syrians: if they save us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die."
2 Kings 7:4: "of the Syrians: if they save us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die."
2 Kings 8:1: "whose son he had restored to life, saying, Arise, and go thou"
2 Kings 8:5: "the king how he had restored a dead body to life, that, behold, the woman,"
2 Kings 8:5: "that, behold, the woman, whose son he had restored to life, cried to"
2 Kings 8:5: "is the woman, and this is her son, whom Elisha restored to life."
2 Kings 8:8: "of the LORD by him, saying, Shall I recover of this disease?"
2 Kings 8:9: "hath sent me to thee, saying, Shall I recover of this disease?"
2 Kings 8:10: "unto him, Go, say unto him, Thou mayest certainly recover: howbeit the LORD hath showed me that"
2 Kings 8:10: "unto him, Go, say unto him, Thou mayest certainly recover: unto him, Thou mayest certainly recover: howbeit the LORD hath showed me that"
2 Kings 8:14: "said Elisha to thee? And he answered, He told me that thou shouldest surely recover."
2 Kings 8:14: "said Elisha to thee? And he answered, He told me that thou shouldest surely recover. me that thou shouldest surely recover."
2 Kings 10:19: "to do to Baal; whosoever shall be wanting, he shall not live. But Jehu did"
2 Kings 11:12: "and anointed him; and they clapped their hands, and said, God save the king."
2 Kings 13:21: "and touched the bones of Elisha, he revived, and stood up on his feet."
2 Kings 14:17: "of Joash king of Judah lived after the death of Jehoash son"
2 Kings 18:32: "a land of oil olive and of honey, that ye may live, and not die: and hearken"
2 Kings 20:1: "Set thine house in order; for thou shalt die, and not live."
2 Kings 20:7: "and laid it on the boil, and he recovered."
1 Chronicles 11:8: "even from Millo round about: and Joab repaired the rest of the city."
2 Chronicles 23:11: "And Jehoiada and his sons anointed him, and said, God save the king."
2 Chronicles 25:25: "of Joash king of Judah lived after the death of Joash son"
Nehemiah 2:3: "And said Let the king live forever: why should not my countenance"
Nehemiah 4:2: "themselves? will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps"
Nehemiah 5:2: "therefore we take up corn for them, that we may eat, and live."
Nehemiah 9:6: "and all that is therein, and thou preservest them all; and the host of heaven"
Nehemiah 9:29: "(which if a man do, he shall live in them;) and withdrew the shoulder, and hardened"
Esther 4:11: "the king shall hold out the golden scepter, that he may live: but I have not"
Job 7:16: "I loathe live always: let me alone; for my days"
Job 14:14: "If die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait,"
Job 21:7: "Wherefore live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?"
Job 33:4: "hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life."
Job 36:6: " He preserveth not the life but giveth right to the poor."
Job 42:16: "After lived Job a hundred and forty years, and saw"
Psalms 22:26: "the LORD that seek him: your heart shall live forever."
Psalms 22:29: "shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul."
Psalms 30:3: "my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit."
Psalms 33:19: "To deliver from death, and to keep them alive in famine."
