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 42:18 - said And Joseph day unto them the third This do and live God

  • Genesis 43:8 - said And Judah unto Israel his father Send the lad with me and we will arise that we may live and not die both we and thou and also our little ones

  • Genesis 45:7 - sent And God me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth and to save your lives deliverance by a great

  • Genesis 45:27 - And they told him all the words of Joseph And they told unto them and when he saw the wagons had sent of Joseph to carry revived him the spirit of Jacob their father

  • Genesis 47:19 - Wherefore shall we die before thine eyes and we and our land buy and we and our land for bread and we and our land will be servants unto Pharaoh and give us seed that we may live Wherefore shall we die and we and our land be not desolate

  • Genesis 47:25 - And they said Thou hast saved our lives let us find grace in the sight of my lord servants and we will be Pharaoh's

  • Genesis 47:28 - lived And Jacob in the land of Egypt and seven seventeen years And Jacob years so the whole age and seven years forty was an hundred years

  • Genesis 50:20 - But as for you ye thought evil against me but God But as for you ye thought unto good to bring to pass as it is this day alive people much

  • Genesis 50:22 - dwelt And Joseph in Egypt house he and his father's lived And Joseph an hundred and ten years

  • Habakkuk 2:4 - which is lifted up is not upright Behold his soul in him but the just by his faith shall live

  • Habakkuk 3:2 - O LORD I have heard thy speech and was afraid O LORD thy work in the midst of the years revive in the midst of the years make known in wrath mercy remember

  • Hosea 6:2 - and we shall live After two days After two days us in the third he will raise us up and we shall live in his sight

  • 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

  • Isaiah 7:21 - And it shall come to pass in that day shall nourish that a man cow a young and two sheep

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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