Strong's #2421: chayah (pronounced khaw-yaw')
a primitive root (compare 2331, 2421); 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.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
châyâh
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
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root [compare H2331, H2421]
Usage:
This word is used 264 times:
Genesis 47:25: "And they said, Thou hast saved our lives: let us find grace in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's"
Genesis 47:28: "And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the whole age"
Genesis 50:20: "bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive."
Genesis 50:22: "and his father's house: and Joseph lived a hundred and ten years."
Exodus 1:17: "the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men children"
Exodus 1:18: "have ye done this thing, and have saved the men children"
Exodus 1:22: "into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive."
Exodus 19:13: "whether it be beast or man, it shall not live: when the trumpet soundeth long,"
Exodus 22:18: "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live."
Leviticus 25:35: "with thee; then thou shalt relieve him: yea, though he be a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with"
Leviticus 25:36: "of him, or increase: but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with"
Numbers 4:19: "But thus unto them, that they may live, and not die, when they approach unto the most holy things:"
Numbers 14:38: "to search the land, lived"
Numbers 22:33: "me, surely now also I had slain thee, and saved her alive."
Numbers 24:23: "and said, Alas, who shall live when God doeth"
Numbers 31:15: "And Moses unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive?"
Numbers 31:18: "known a man by lying with him, keep alive"
Deuteronomy 4:1: "teach you, for to do them, that ye may live, and go in and possess the land"
Deuteronomy 4:33: "of the fire, as thou hast heard, and live?"
Deuteronomy 5:26: "out of the midst of the fire, as we have, and lived?"
Deuteronomy 5:33: "your God hath commanded you, that ye may live, and that it may be well with you, and that ye may prolong your days in the land"
Deuteronomy 6:24: "our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as it is at this day."
Deuteronomy 8:1: "shall ye observe to do, that ye may live, and multiply, and go in and possess"
Deuteronomy 8:3: "that man doth not live by bread only, but"
Deuteronomy 8:3: "of the mouth of the LORD doth man live."
Deuteronomy 16:20: "That which is altogether just that thou mayest live, and inherit the land"
Deuteronomy 20:16: "the LORD thy God doth give thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth:"
Deuteronomy 30:16: "his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the LORD thy God shall bless"
Deuteronomy 30:19: "that both thou and thy seed may live:"
Deuteronomy 32:39: "with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither"
Deuteronomy 33:6: "Let Reuben live, and not die; and let not his men be few."
Joshua 2:13: " And that ye will save alive my father, and my mother, and my brethren, and my sisters, and all that"
Joshua 5:8: "in their places in the camp, till they were whole."
Joshua 6:17: "only Rahab the harlot shall live, she and all that are with"
Joshua 6:25: "And Joshua saved Rahab the harlot alive, and her father's household, and all that"
Joshua 9:15: "peace with them, and made a league with them, to let them live: and the princes of the congregation swore"
Joshua 9:20: "This to them; we will even let them live, lest wrath be upon"
Joshua 9:21: "And the princes unto them, Let them live; but let them be hewers of wood and drawers"
Joshua 14:10: "And now, the LORD hath kept me alive, as he said, these"
Judges 8:19: "as the LORD liveth, if ye had saved them alive, I would not slay"
Judges 15:19: "and when he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived: wherefore he called the name"
Judges 21:14: "and they gave them wives which they had saved alive of the women of Jabesh-gilead:"
1 Samuel 2:6: "The LORD and maketh alive: he bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up."
1 Samuel 10:24: "the people shouted, and said, God save the king."
1 Samuel 27:9: "the land, and left neither man nor woman alive, and took away"
1 Samuel 27:11: "And David saved neither man nor woman alive, to bring tidings to Gath, saying,"
2 Samuel 1:10: "I was sure that he could not live after that he was fallen: and I took the crown"
2 Samuel 8:2: "measured he to put to death, and with one full line to keep alive. And so the Moabites became David's"
2 Samuel 12:3: "little ewe lamb, which he had bought and nourished up: and it grew up together"
2 Samuel 16:16: "said unto Absalom, God save the king, God save the king."
