Hebrew Lexicon Strong's Concordance Definition

Strong's H2421: חָיָה (châyâh) Definition

Strong's number
H2421
Lemma
חָיָה
Transliteration
châyâh
Pronunciation
khaw-yaw'
Strong's definition
to live, whether literally or figuratively; causatively, to revive keep (leave, make) alive, [idiom] certainly, give (promise) life, (let, suffer to) live, nourish up, preserve (alive), quicken, recover, repair, restore (to life), revive, ([idiom] God) save (alive, life, lives), [idiom] surely, be whole. a primitive root (compare H2331 (חָוָה), H2421 (חָיָה));

239 instances of the word חָיָה châyâh (H2421)


  • Joshua 9:15 - made And Joshua peace with them and made a league with them to let them live sware and the princes of the congregation

  • Joshua 9:20 - This we will do to them we will even let them live lest wrath be upon us because of the oath which we sware

  • Joshua 9:21 - said And the princes unto them Let them live but let them be hewers of wood and drawers of water unto all the congregation had promised And the princes

  • Joshua 14:10 - hath kept me alive And now behold the LORD as he said these forty and five years even since as he said And now behold the LORD this word unto Moses wandered while the children of Israel in the wilderness and now lo I am this day old and five fourscore years

  • Judges 8:19 - And he said They were my brethren even the sons of my mother liveth as the LORD if ye had saved them alive I would not slay

  • Judges 15:19 - clave But God an hollow place that was in the jaw and there came water thereout and when he had drunk came again his spirit and he revived wherefore he called the name thereof Enhakkore which is in Lehi unto this day

  • Judges 21:14 - came again And Benjamin at that time and they gave of the women which they had saved alive of the women of Jabeshgilead and yet so they sufficed

  • Lamentations 4:20 - The breath of our nostrils the anointed of the LORD was taken in their pits of whom we said Under his shadow we shall live among the heathen

  • Leviticus 25:35 - be waxen poor And if thy brother and fallen in decay with thee then thou shalt relieve him yea though he be a stranger or a sojourner

  • Leviticus 25:36 - Take thou no usury of him or increase but fear thy God that thy brother

  • Nehemiah 2:3 - And said Let the king Let the king for ever live why should not my countenance when the city the place sepulchres of my fathers lieth waste and the gates thereof are consumed with fire

  • Nehemiah 4:2 - And he spake before his brethren and the army of Samaria And he spake Jews these feeble What do will they fortify themselves will they sacrifice will they make an end in a day will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned

  • Nehemiah 5:2 - For there were that said We our sons and our daughters are many therefore we take up corn for them that we may eat and live

  • Nehemiah 9:6 - Thou even thou art LORD alone thou hast made heaven heaven heaven them all and the host the earth and all things that are therein the seas and all that is therein and thou preservest them all and the host heaven worshippeth

  • Nehemiah 9:29 - And testifiedst against them that thou mightest bring them again unto thy law yet they dealt proudly and hearkened not unto thy commandments against thy judgments but sinned do which if a man he shall live in them and withdrew the shoulder their neck and hardened and hearkened

  • Numbers 4:19 - But thus do unto them that they may live and not die when they approach holy things holy things Aaron and his sons shall go in and appoint one one to his service and to his burden

  • Numbers 14:38 - But Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh lived which were of the men that went to search the land

  • Numbers 22:33 - saw And the ass me and turned from me these three times unless me and turned from me surely now also I had slain thee and saved her alive

  • Numbers 24:23 - And he took up his parable and said Alas who shall live doeth when God

  • Numbers 31:15 - said And Moses alive all the women