H2421 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)


  • Genesis 11:25 - lived And Nahor after and begat Terah and nineteen years an hundred years and begat sons and daughters

  • Genesis 11:26 - lived And Terah seventy years and begat Abram Nahor and Haran

  • 2 Samuel 12:3 - But the poor ewe lamb man had nothing save one little which he had bought and nourished up and it grew up with him and with his children together of his own meat it did eat of his own cup and drank in his bosom and lay and was unto him as a daughter

  • Genesis 12:12 - shall see Therefore it shall come to pass when the Egyptians thee that they shall say This is his wife and they will kill me but they will save thee alive

  • Genesis 12:13 - Say I pray thee thou art my sister that it may be well shall live with me for thy sake and my soul because of thee

  • Zechariah 13:3 - him through when he prophesieth And it shall come to pass that when any him shall say and his father and his mother that begat unto him Thou shalt not live lies for thou speakest in the name of the LORD him shall thrust and his father and his mother that begat him through when he prophesieth

  • Ezekiel 13:18 - And say And say the Lord GOD Woe to the women that sew pillows to all armholes and make kerchiefs upon the head of every stature Will ye hunt souls souls Will ye hunt of my people souls alive alive

  • Ezekiel 13:19 - And will ye pollute me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread that should not die the souls that should not die alive the souls alive by your lying me among my people that hear your lies

  • 2 Kings 13:21 - And it came to pass as they were burying a man that behold they spied a band of men and they cast a man into the sepulchre of Elisha and touched a man the bones of Elisha he revived and stood up on his feet

  • Ezekiel 13:22 - sad ye have made the heart of the righteous Because with lies whom I have not made sad and strengthened the hands of the wicked that he should not return way from his wicked by promising him life

  • Hosea 14:7 - shall return They that dwell under his shadow they shall revive as the corn and grow as the vine the scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon

  • 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

  • Job 14:14 - die If a man shall he live again all the days of my appointed time will I wait come till my change

  • 2 Kings 14:17 - lived And Amaziah son of Joash king of Judah after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years

  • 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

  • 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

  • Proverbs 15:27 - troubleth his own house He that is greedy of gain but he that hateth gifts shall live

  • Ezekiel 16:6 - And when I passed by thee and saw thee polluted in thine own blood I said in thine own blood Live I said in thine own blood Live

  • 2 Samuel 16:16 - was come And it came to pass when Hushai the Archite friend David's unto Absalom said And it came to pass when Hushai unto Absalom God save the king God save the king

  • Deuteronomy 16:20 - That which is altogether That which is altogether shalt thou follow that thou mayest live and inherit the land which the LORD thy God giveth

  • Genesis 17:18 - said And Abraham unto God O that Ishmael might live before thee

  • 1 Kings 17:22 - heard And the LORD the voice of Elijah again and the soul of the child into him and he revived

  • 1 Kings 18:5 - said And Ahab unto Obadiah into the land unto all fountains of water and unto all brooks peradventure we may find grass alive the horses and mules that we lose not all the beasts

  • Ezekiel 18:9 - in my statutes Hath walked my judgments and hath kept to deal truly he is just he shall surely he shall surely saith the Lord GOD

  • Ezekiel 18:13 - upon usury Hath given forth increase and hath taken shall he then live he shall not live all these abominations he hath done die die his blood

  • Ezekiel 18:17 - from the poor That hath taken off his hand usury nor increase that hath not received my judgments hath executed in my statutes hath walked he shall not die for the iniquity of his father he shall surely he shall surely

  • Ezekiel 18:19 - Yet say bear When the son the iniquity of the father When the son that which is lawful and right and hath done all my statutes and hath kept and hath done live live

  • Ezekiel 18:21 - But if the wicked will turn from all his sins and do and keep all my statutes and do that which is lawful and right he shall surely he shall surely he shall not die

  • Ezekiel 18:22 - All his transgressions that he hath committed they shall not be mentioned unto him in his righteousness that he hath committed he shall live

  • Ezekiel 18:23 - Have I any pleasure Have I any pleasure should die that the wicked saith the Lord GOD and not that he should return from his ways and live

  • Ezekiel 18:27 - man turneth away Again when the wicked from his wickedness and doeth and doeth that which is lawful and right his soul alive

  • Ezekiel 18:28 - Because he considereth and turneth away from all his transgressions that he hath committed he shall surely he shall surely he shall not die

  • Ezekiel 18:32 - For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth saith the Lord GOD wherefore turn yourselves and live

  • 2 Kings 18:32 - Until I come and take you away a land a land a land of corn and wine a land of bread and vineyards a land olive of oil and of honey that ye may live and not die and hearken not unto Hezekiah when he persuadeth you saying The LORD will deliver

  • Exodus 19:13 - touch There shall not an hand be stoned be stoned or shot shot or whether it be beast or man it shall not live soundeth long when the trumpet they shall come up to the mount

  • Genesis 19:19 - hath found Behold now thy servant grace in thy sight and thou hast magnified thy mercy which thou hast shewed unto me in saving my life and I cannot escape to the mountain take lest some evil me and I die

  • Genesis 19:20 - Behold now this city is near to flee unto and it is a little one Oh let me escape is a little one unto and it shall live and my soul

  • Genesis 19:32 - drink of our father wine and we will lie with him that we may preserve of our father seed

  • Genesis 19:34 - And it came to pass on the morrow said that the firstborn unto the younger Behold I lay yesternight of our father let us make him drink wine this night also and go thou in Behold I lay with him that we may preserve of our father seed

  • 2 Kings 20:1 - In those days sick was Hezekiah for thou shalt die came Isaiah the son of Amoz And the prophet to him and said to him and said the LORD in order Set thine house for thou shalt die and not live

  • Genesis 20:7 - Now therefore restore his wife the man for he is a prophet and he shall pray for thee and thou shalt live Now therefore restore her not know die die

  • 2 Kings 20:7 - said And Isaiah And they took a lump of figs And they took and laid it on the boil and he recovered

  • Deuteronomy 20:16 - But of the cities of these people which the LORD thy God doth give thee for an inheritance thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth

  • Ezekiel 20:25 - Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good and judgments whereby they should not live

  • 1 Kings 20:31 - said And his servants unto him Behold now we have heard kings of the house of Israel kings are merciful let us I pray thee put sackcloth on our loins and ropes upon our heads and go out kings of Israel peradventure he will save thy life

  • 1 Kings 20:32 - So they girded sackcloth on their loins and put ropes on their heads and came to the king of Israel And he said Thy servant Benhadad And he said I pray thee let me live And he said Is he yet alive he is my brother

  • Job 21:7 - Wherefore do the wicked live become old yea are mighty in power

  • Jeremiah 21:9 - He that abideth in this city shall die by the sword and by the famine and by the pestilence but he that goeth out and falleth to the Chaldeans that besiege you he shall live and his life shall be unto him for a prey

  • 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

  • Exodus 22:18 - Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live

  • Psalms 22:26 - shall eat The meek and be satisfied they shall praise the LORD that seek shall live him your heart for ever

  • Psalms 22:29 - shall eat and worship All they that be fat upon earth before shall bow all they that go down to the dust his own soul him and none can keep alive

  • 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

  • 2 Chronicles 23:11 - Then they brought out and his sons the king and put upon him the crown and gave him the testimony and made him king anointed And Jehoiada and his sons him and said God save the king

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

  • 2 Chronicles 25:25 - lived And Amaziah son of Joash king of Judah after of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years

  • 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

  • Isaiah 26:14 - They are dead they shall not live they are deceased they shall not rise therefore hast thou visited and destroyed to perish them and made all their memory

  • Isaiah 26:19 - men shall live Thy dead together with my dead body shall they arise Awake and sing ye that dwell in dust for thy dew of herbs for thy dew and the earth the dead shall cast out

  • 1 Samuel 27:9 - smote And David the land alive and left neither man nor woman and took away the sheep and the oxen and the asses and the camels and the apparel and returned and came to Achish

  • 1 Samuel 27:11 - neither man nor woman alive And David to bring tidings to Gath on us saying Lest they should tell on us saying So did And David and so will be his manner all the while he dwelleth in the country of the Philistines

  • Jeremiah 27:12 - also to Zedekiah king of Judah I spake according to all these words saying Bring your necks under the yoke king of Babylon and serve him and his people and live

  • Jeremiah 27:17 - Hearken not unto them serve the king of Babylon and live wherefore should this city be laid waste

  • Genesis 27:40 - And by thy sword shalt thou live thy brother and shalt serve and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck

  • Psalms 30:3 - O LORD thou hast brought up from the grave my soul thou hast kept me alive that I should not go down to the pit

  • Deuteronomy 30:16 - In that I command thee this day to love and the LORD thy God in his ways and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments that thou mayest live and multiply shall bless and the LORD thy God thee in the land whither thou goest to possess

  • Deuteronomy 30:19 - I call this day heaven and earth life and death against you that I have set before blessing and cursing therefore choose life may live that both thou and thy seed

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

  • Numbers 31:18 - children But all the women that have not known by lying a man with him keep alive

  • Genesis 31:32 - With whomsoever thou findest thy gods let him not live before our brethren discern thou what is thine with me and take knew it to thee For Jacob not that Rachel had stolen

  • Deuteronomy 32:39 - See now that I even I am he and there is no god with me I kill and I make alive I wound and I heal out of my hand neither is there any that can deliver

  • Job 33:4 - The Spirit of God hath made me and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life

  • Deuteronomy 33:6 - live Let Reuben and not die and let not his men be few

  • Ezekiel 33:10 - Therefore O thou son of man Thus ye speak unto the house of Israel Thus ye speak Thus ye speak If our transgressions and our sins be upon us and we pine away in them how should we then live

  • Ezekiel 33:11 - Say unto them As I live saith the Lord GOD I have no pleasure in the death but that the wicked turn but that the wicked from his way and live turn turn from his way ye from your evil for why will ye die O house of Israel

  • Ezekiel 33:12 - Therefore thou son of man say Therefore thou son of thy people The righteousness neither shall the righteous shall not deliver for his righteousness in the day of his transgression as for the wickedness of the wicked he shall not fall for his righteousness in the day that he turneth 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 to the righteous live live if he trust all his righteousnesses and commit but for his iniquity all his righteousnesses shall not be remembered but for his iniquity and commit he shall die

  • Ezekiel 33:15 - the pledge restore If the wicked that he had robbed give again in the statutes of life walk without committing iniquity he shall surely he shall surely he shall not die

  • Ezekiel 33:16 - None of his sins that he hath committed shall be mentioned that which is lawful and right unto him he hath done he shall surely he shall surely

  • Ezekiel 33:19 - turn But if the wicked from his wickedness and do that which is lawful and right he shall live

  • Psalms 33:19 - To deliver from death their soul and to keep them alive in famine

  • Jeremiah 35:7 - house Neither shall ye build seed nor sow vineyard nor plant in tents ye shall dwell days that ye may live days many in the land where ye be strangers

  • Job 36:6 - He preserveth not the life of the wicked right to the poor but giveth

  • Ezekiel 37:3 - And I answered unto me Son of man live can these bones And I answered O Lord GOD thou knowest

  • Ezekiel 37:5 - Thus saith the Lord GOD unto these bones to enter Behold I will cause breath into you and ye shall live

  • Ezekiel 37:6 - And I will lay sinews upon you and will bring up flesh upon you and cover you with skin And I will lay breath in you and ye shall live and ye shall know that I am the LORD

  • Ezekiel 37:9 - Then said he unto me Prophesy O breath he unto me Prophesy son of man Then said O breath Then said the Lord from the four O breath Come O breath and breathe upon these slain that they may live

  • Ezekiel 37:10 - So I prophesied as he commanded came me and the breath into them and they lived and stood up upon their feet army great an exceeding an exceeding

  • Ezekiel 37:14 - And shall put my spirit in you and ye shall live and I shall place you in your own land then shall ye know that I the LORD have spoken it and performed it saith that I the LORD

  • Isaiah 38:1 - In those days sick was Hezekiah for thou shalt die came And Isaiah the son of Amoz the prophet unto him Thus saith unto him Thus saith the LORD in order Set thine house for thou shalt die and not live

  • Jeremiah 38:2 - Thus saith the LORD He that remaineth in this city shall die by the sword by the famine and by the pestilence but he that goeth forth to the Chaldeans and shall live for he shall have his life for a prey and shall live

  • Isaiah 38:9 - The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah when he had been sick and was recovered of his sickness

  • Isaiah 38:16 - O Lord by these things men live and in all these things is the life of my spirit so wilt thou recover by these things men live

  • Jeremiah 38:17 - Then said Jeremiah unto Zedekiah Then said the LORD the God of hosts the God of Israel If thou wilt assuredly If thou wilt assuredly princes unto the king of Babylon's and thou shalt live then thy soul and this city shall not be burned with fire and thou shalt live and thine house

  • Jeremiah 38:20 - said But Jeremiah They shall not deliver thee Obey I beseech thee the voice of the LORD which I speak unto thee so it shall be well shall live unto thee and thy soul

  • Isaiah 38:21 - had said For Isaiah Let them take a lump of figs and lay it for a plaister upon the boil and he shall recover

  • Psalms 41:2 - The LORD will preserve him and keep him alive and he shall be blessed upon the earth and thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of his enemies

  • Genesis 42:2 - And he said Behold I have heard that there is corn in Egypt get you down thither and buy for us from thence that we may live and not die

  • Job 42:16 - this lived Job After an hundred and forty years and saw and his sons and his sons and his sons even four generations