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:
Ezekiel 37:10: "he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding"
Ezekiel 37:14: "And shall put in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall ye know that"
Ezekiel 47:9: "whithersoever the rivers shall come, shall live: and there shall be"
Hosea 6:2: "After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight."
Hosea 6:2: "us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight."
Hosea 14:7: "They that dwell shall return; they shall revive as the corn, and grow as the vine: the scent"
Amos 5:4: "unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live:"
Amos 5:6: "Seek the LORD, and ye shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house"
Amos 5:14: "and not evil, that ye may live: and so the LORD, the God of hosts,"
Habakkuk 2:4: "which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith."
Habakkuk 3:2: "thy speech, and was afraid: O LORD, revive thy work in the midst of the years, in the midst"
Zechariah 1:5: "are they? and the prophets, do they live forever?"
Zechariah 10:9: "and they shall remember me in far countries; and they shall live with their children, and turn again."
Zechariah 13:3: "him shall say unto him, Thou shalt not live; for thou speakest lies in the name"
