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:
Jeremiah 38:2: "but he that goeth forth to the Chaldeans shall live; for he shall have his life for a prey, and shall live."
Jeremiah 38:17: "the king of Babylon's princes, then thy soul shall live, and this city shall not"
Jeremiah 38:17: "shall not be burned with fire; and thou shalt live, and thine house:"
Jeremiah 38:20: "unto thee: so it shall be well unto thee, and thy soul shall live."
Jeremiah 49:11: "Leave I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in"
Lamentations 4:20: "of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the heathen."
Ezekiel 3:18: "speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same"
Ezekiel 3:21: "and he doth not sin, he shall surely live, because he is warned; also thou"
Ezekiel 3:21: "and he doth not sin, he shall surely live, he shall surely live, because he is warned; also thou"
Ezekiel 13:18: "souls! Will ye hunt the souls of my people, and will ye save the souls alive"
Ezekiel 13:19: "that should not die, and to save the souls alive that should not live,"
Ezekiel 13:19: "and to save the souls alive that should not live, by your lying to my people that hear"
Ezekiel 13:22: "that he should not return from his wicked way, by promising him life:"
Ezekiel 16:6: "in thine own blood, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live; yea, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live."
Ezekiel 16:6: "Live; yea, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live."
Ezekiel 18:9: "truly; he is just, he shall surely live, saith the Lord GOD."
Ezekiel 18:9: "truly; he is just, he shall surely live, he shall surely live, saith the Lord GOD."
Ezekiel 18:13: "and hath taken increase: shall he then live? he shall not live: he hath done"
Ezekiel 18:13: "increase: shall he then live? he shall not live: he hath done all these"
Ezekiel 18:17: "shall not die for the iniquity of his father, he shall surely live."
Ezekiel 18:17: "shall not die for the iniquity of his father, he shall surely live. he shall surely live."
Ezekiel 18:19: "all my statutes, and hath done them, he shall surely live."
Ezekiel 18:19: "all my statutes, and hath done them, he shall surely live. them, he shall surely live."
Ezekiel 18:21: "my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die."
Ezekiel 18:21: "my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall surely live, he shall not die."
Ezekiel 18:22: "unto him: in his righteousness that he hath done he shall live."
Ezekiel 18:23: "GOD: and not that he should return from his ways, and live?"
Ezekiel 18:24: "the abominations that the wicked man doeth, shall he live? All his righteousness that"
Ezekiel 18:27: "and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive."
Ezekiel 18:28: "from all his transgressions that he hath committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die."
Ezekiel 18:28: "from all his transgressions that he hath committed, he shall surely live, he shall surely live, he shall not die."
Ezekiel 18:32: "saith the Lord GOD: wherefore turn yourselves, and live"
Ezekiel 20:11: "which if a man do, he shall even live"
Ezekiel 20:13: "which if a man do, he shall even live in them; and my sabbaths they greatly polluted:"
Ezekiel 20:21: "them, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; they polluted my sabbaths:"
Ezekiel 20:25: "good, and judgments whereby they should not live;"
Ezekiel 33:10: "us, and we pine away in them, how should we then live?"
Ezekiel 33:11: "but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn"
Ezekiel 33:12: "from his wickedness; neither shall the righteous be able to live for his righteousness in the day that he sinneth."
Ezekiel 33:13: "When I shall say that he shall surely live; if he trust to his own righteousness,"
Ezekiel 33:13: "When I shall say that he shall surely live; that he shall surely live; if he trust to his own righteousness,"
Ezekiel 33:15: "without committing iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die."
Ezekiel 33:15: "without committing iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall surely live, he shall not die."
Ezekiel 33:16: "shall be mentioned unto him: he hath done that which is lawful and right; he shall surely live."
Ezekiel 33:16: "shall be mentioned unto him: he hath done that which is lawful and right; he shall surely live. he shall surely live."
Ezekiel 33:19: "and do that which is lawful and right, he shall live thereby."
Ezekiel 37:3: "of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord GOD, thou"
Ezekiel 37:5: "I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live:"
Ezekiel 37:6: "you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I"
Ezekiel 37:9: "O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live."
