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Strong H2421חָיָה

to live

Transliteration
châyâh
Pronunciation
khaw-yaw'
Morphology
Hebrew Verb

Definition

A prim root (compare {H2331 } H2424); to {live} whether literally or figuratively; causatively to revive: - keep ({leave} make) {alive} X {certainly} give (promise) {life} ({let} suffer to) {live} nourish {up} preserve ({alive}) {quicken} {recover} {repair} restore (to {life}) {revive} (X God) save ({alive} {life} {lives}) X {surely} be whole.

Detailed definition

1) to live, have life, remain alive, sustain life, live prosperously, live for ever, be quickened, be alive, be restored to life or health
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to live
1a1a) to have life
1a1b) to continue in life, remain alive
1a1c) to sustain life, to live on or upon
1a1d) to live (prosperously)
1a2) to revive, be quickened
1a2a) from sickness
1a2b) from discouragement
1a2c) from faintness
1a2d) from death
1b) (Piel)
1b1) to preserve alive, let live
1b2) to give life
1b3) to quicken, revive, refresh
1b3a) to restore to life
1b3b) to cause to grow
1b3c) to restore
1b3d) to revive
1c) (Hiphil)
1c1) to preserve alive, let live
1c2) to quicken, revive
1c2a) to restore (to health)
1c2b) to revive
1c2c) to restore to life

In the Bible

Strong H2421 appears in 235 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • live145
  • save29
  • alive16
  • quicken14
  • revive11
  • shall10
  • keep8
  • recover8
  • life6
  • preserve3
  • thou3
  • make2

First verses

  1. Genesis 5:3
    And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:
  2. Genesis 5:6
    And Seth lived an hundred and five years, and begat Enos:
  3. Genesis 5:7
    And Seth lived after he begat Enos eight hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters:
  4. Genesis 5:9
    And Enos lived ninety years, and begat Cainan:
  5. Genesis 5:10
    And Enos lived after he begat Cainan eight hundred and fifteen years, and begat sons and daughters:
  6. Genesis 5:12
    And Cainan lived seventy years, and begat Mahalaleel:
  7. Genesis 5:13
    And Cainan lived after he begat Mahalaleel eight hundred and forty years, and begat sons and daughters:
  8. Genesis 5:15
    And Mahalaleel lived sixty and five years, and begat Jared:
  9. Genesis 5:16
    And Mahalaleel lived after he begat Jared eight hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters:
  10. Genesis 5:18
    And Jared lived an hundred sixty and two years, and he begat Enoch:
  11. Genesis 5:19
    And Jared lived after he begat Enoch eight hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:
  12. Genesis 5:21
    And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah:
  13. Genesis 5:25
    And Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech:
  14. Genesis 5:26
    And Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters:
  15. Genesis 5:28
    And Lamech lived an hundred eighty and two years, and begat a son:
  16. Genesis 5:30
    And Lamech lived after he begat Noah five hundred ninety and five years, and begat sons and daughters:
  17. Genesis 6:19
    And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female.
  18. Genesis 6:20
    Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive.
  19. Genesis 7:3
    Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.
  20. Genesis 9:28
    And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.
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