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)


  • Deuteronomy 4:33 - as thou hast heard Did ever people the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire as thou hast heard and live

  • Deuteronomy 5:26 - For who is there of all flesh that hath heard the voice God of the living speaking out of the midst of the fire as we have and lived

  • Deuteronomy 5:33 - in all the ways hath commanded which the LORD your God you that ye may live and that it may be well with you and that ye may prolong your days in the land which ye shall possess

  • Deuteronomy 6:24 - commanded And the LORD us to do all these statutes to fear And the LORD our God for our good always that he might preserve us alive always

  • Deuteronomy 8:1 - All the commandments which I command thee this day shall ye observe to do that ye may live and multiply and go in and possess the land sware which the LORD unto your fathers

  • Deuteronomy 8:3 - And he humbled thee and suffered thee to hunger and fed thee with manna know know not neither did thy fathers know by bread only doth not live doth man but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth not live doth man

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

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

  • Ecclesiastes 6:3 - beget If a man an hundred of his years be many children and live be many so that the days of his years and his soul be not filled is better and also that he have no burial I say is better that an untimely birth

  • Ecclesiastes 6:6 - Yea though he live a thousand years twice no good told yet hath he seen place to one do not all go

  • Ecclesiastes 7:12 - is a defence For wisdom is a defence and money but the excellency of knowledge For wisdom giveth life to them that have

  • Ecclesiastes 11:8 - years for they shall be many live But if a man and rejoice in them all yet let him remember the days of darkness for they shall be many All that cometh is vanity

  • Esther 4:11 - servants All the king's and the people provinces All the king's do know that whosoever whether man or woman shall come All the king's court into the inner but I have not been called there is one law of his to put him to death except shall hold out All the king's sceptre the golden that he may live but I have not been called shall come All the king's these thirty days

  • Exodus 1:17 - feared But the midwives God and did commanded not as the king of Egypt alive the men children

  • Exodus 1:18 - called And the king of Egypt for the midwives and said unto them Why have ye done this thing alive the men children

  • Exodus 1:22 - charged And Pharaoh all his people saying Every son that is born into the river ye shall cast and every daughter ye shall save alive