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)


  • Genesis 11:18 - lived And Peleg thirty years and begat Reu

  • Genesis 11:19 - lived And Peleg after and begat Reu and nine years two hundred years and begat sons and daughters

  • Genesis 11:20 - lived And Reu two and thirty years and begat Serug

  • Genesis 11:21 - lived And Reu after and begat Serug and seven years two hundred years and begat sons and daughters

  • Genesis 11:22 - lived And Serug thirty years and begat Nahor

  • Genesis 11:23 - lived And Serug after and begat Nahor two hundred years and begat sons and daughters

  • Genesis 11:24 - lived And Nahor nine and twenty years and begat Terah

  • 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

  • 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

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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