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)


  • 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

  • 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

  • Ezekiel 47:9 - And it shall come to pass that every thing that liveth which moveth cometh whither the river shall live multitude of fish great and there shall be a very cometh because these waters thither for they shall be healed and every thing shall live cometh whither the river

  • Genesis 5:3 - lived And Adam and thirty an hundred years and begat a son in his own likeness after his image and called his name Seth

  • Genesis 5:6 - lived And Seth and five years an hundred years and begat Enos

  • Genesis 5:7 - lived And Seth after and begat Enos and seven years eight hundred years and begat sons and daughters

  • Genesis 5:9 - lived And Enos ninety years and begat Cainan

  • Genesis 5:10 - lived And Enos after and begat Cainan and fifteen years eight hundred years and begat sons and daughters

  • Genesis 5:12 - lived And Cainan seventy years and begat Mahalaleel

  • Genesis 5:13 - lived And Cainan after and begat Mahalaleel and forty years eight hundred years and begat sons and daughters