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:
Psalms 41:2: "The LORD him, and keep him alive; and he shall be blessed upon the earth: and thou wilt not deliver him unto the will"
Psalms 49:9: "That he should still live forever, and not see corruption."
Psalms 69:32: "this, and be glad: and your heart shall live that seek God."
Psalms 71:20: "me great and sore troubles, shalt quicken me again, and shalt bring me up again from the depths"
Psalms 72:15: " And he shall live, of the gold of Sheba: prayer also shall be made for him continually;"
Psalms 80:18: "So will not from thee: quicken us, and we will call upon thy name."
Psalms 85:6: "Wilt thou revive us again: that thy people may rejoice"
Psalms 89:48: "What is he that liveth, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul"
Psalms 118:17: "I shall not but live, and declare the works of the LORD."
Psalms 119:17: "Deal bountifully thy servant, that I may live, and keep thy word."
Psalms 119:25: "My soul unto the dust: quicken thou me according to thy word."
Psalms 119:37: "from beholding vanity; and quicken thou me in thy way."
Psalms 119:40: "Behold, after thy precepts: quicken me in thy righteousness."
Psalms 119:50: "in my affliction: for thy word hath quickened"
Psalms 119:77: "Let thy tender mercies unto me, that I may live: for thy law is my delight."
Psalms 119:88: " Quicken so shall I keep the testimony of thy mouth."
Psalms 119:93: "I will never thy precepts: for with them thou hast quickened"
Psalms 119:107: "I am afflicted quicken me, O LORD, according unto thy word."
Psalms 119:116: "Uphold that I may live: and let me not be ashamed of my hope."
Psalms 119:144: "is everlasting: give me understanding, and I shall live."
Psalms 119:149: "according unto thy lovingkindness: O LORD, quicken me according to thy judgment."
Psalms 119:154: "Plead and deliver me: quicken me according to thy word."
Psalms 119:156: "Great O LORD: quicken me according to thy judgments."
Psalms 119:159: "I love thy precepts: quicken me, O LORD, according to thy lovingkindness."
Psalms 119:175: "Let my soul live, and it shall praise thee; and let thy judgments help"
Psalms 138:7: "in the midst of trouble, thou wilt revive me: thou shalt stretch forth thine hand against the wrath"
Psalms 143:11: " Quicken for thy name's sake: for thy righteousness' sake bring my soul out of trouble."
Proverbs 4:4: "my words: keep my commandments, and live."
Proverbs 7:2: "Keep and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye."
Proverbs 9:6: "Forsake and live; and go in the way of understanding."
Proverbs 15:27: "his own house; but he that hateth gifts shall live."
Ecclesiastes 6:3: "beget a hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years"
Ecclesiastes 6:6: "Yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, yet hath he seen no good:"
Ecclesiastes 7:12: "but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have"
Ecclesiastes 11:8: "But a man live many years, and rejoice in them all;"
Isaiah 7:21: "day, that a man shall nourish a young cow, and two sheep;"
Isaiah 26:14: "They are dead, live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited"
Isaiah 26:19: "Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust:"
Isaiah 38:1: "Set thine house in order: for thou shalt die, and not live."
Isaiah 38:9: "king of Judah, when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness:"
Isaiah 38:16: "O Lord, these things men live, and in all these things is the life of my spirit: so wilt thou recover"
Isaiah 38:16: "things is the life of my spirit: so wilt thou recover me, and make me to live."
Isaiah 38:21: "and lay it for a plaster upon the boil, and he shall recover."
Isaiah 55:3: "unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure"
Isaiah 57:15: "him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart"
Isaiah 57:15: "to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones."
Jeremiah 21:9: "to the Chaldeans that besiege you, he shall live, and his life shall be unto him for a prey."
Jeremiah 27:12: "of Babylon, and serve him and his people, and live."
Jeremiah 27:17: "the king of Babylon, and live: wherefore should this city be"
Jeremiah 35:7: "ye shall dwell in tents; that ye may live many days in"
