Strong H2425חָיַי

to live

Transliteration
châyay
Pronunciation
khaw-yah'ee
Morphology
Hebrew Verb

Definition

A primitive root (compare H2421); to live; causatively to revive: - {live} save life.

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) (Hiph)
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 H2425 appears in 23 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • live20
  • liveth2
  • save1

First verses

  1. Genesis 3:22
    And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:
  2. Genesis 5:5
    And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.
  3. Genesis 11:12
    And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah:
  4. Genesis 11:14
    And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber:
  5. Genesis 25:7
    And these are the days of the years of Abraham’s life which he lived, an hundred threescore and fifteen years.
  6. Exodus 1:16
    And he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon the stools; if it be a son, then ye shall kill him: but if it be a daughter, then she shall live.
  7. Exodus 33:20
    And he said, Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live.
  8. Leviticus 18:5
    Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the Lord.
  9. Numbers 21:8
    And the Lord said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live.
  10. Numbers 21:9
    And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived.
  11. Deuteronomy 4:42
    That the slayer might flee thither, which should kill his neighbour unawares, and hated him not in times past; and that fleeing unto one of these cities he might live:
  12. Deuteronomy 5:24
    And ye said, Behold, the Lord our God hath shewed us his glory and his greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire: we have seen this day that God doth talk with man, and he liveth.
  13. Deuteronomy 19:4
    And this is the case of the slayer, which shall flee thither, that he may live: Whoso killeth his neighbour ignorantly, whom he hated not in time past;
  14. Deuteronomy 19:5
    As when a man goeth into the wood with his neighbour to hew wood, and his hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slippeth from the helve, and lighteth upon his neighbour, that he die; he shall flee unto one of those cities, and live:
  15. 1 Samuel 20:31
    For as long as the son of Jesse liveth upon the ground, thou shalt not be established, nor thy kingdom. Wherefore now send and fetch him unto me, for he shall surely die.
  16. Nehemiah 6:11
    And I said, Should such a man as I flee? and who is there, that, being as I am, would go into the temple to save his life? I will not go in.
  17. Jeremiah 38:2
    Thus saith the Lord, He that remaineth in this city shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he that goeth forth to the Chaldeans shall live; for he shall have his life for a prey, and shall live.
  18. Ezekiel 18:13
    Hath given forth upon usury, and hath taken increase: shall he then live? he shall not live: he hath done all these abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon him.
  19. Ezekiel 18:24
    But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and doeth according to all the abominations that the wicked man doeth, shall he live? All his righteousness that he hath done shall not be mentioned: in his trespass that he hath trespassed, and in his sin that he hath sinned, in them shall he die.
  20. Ezekiel 20:11
    And I gave them my statutes, and shewed them my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them.
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