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Lexicon :: Strong's H2421 - ḥāyâ

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חָיָה
Transliteration
ḥāyâ
Pronunciation
khaw-yaw'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root [compare חָוָה (H2331), חָיָה (H2421)]
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 644

Strong’s Definitions

חָיָה châyâh, khaw-yaw'; a primitive root (compare H2331, H2421); to live, whether literally or figuratively; causatively, to revive:—keep (leave, make) alive, × certainly, give (promise) life, (let, suffer to) live, nourish up, preserve (alive), quicken, recover, repair, restore (to life), revive, (× God) save (alive, life, lives), × surely, be whole.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 262x

The KJV translates Strong's H2421 in the following manner: live (153x), alive (34x), save (13x), quicken (14x), revive (12x), surely (10x), life (9x), recover (8x), miscellaneous (9x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 262x
The KJV translates Strong's H2421 in the following manner: live (153x), alive (34x), save (13x), quicken (14x), revive (12x), surely (10x), life (9x), recover (8x), miscellaneous (9x).
  1. to live, have life, remain alive, sustain life, live prosperously, live for ever, be quickened, be alive, be restored to life or health

    1. (Qal)

      1. to live

        1. to have life

        2. to continue in life, remain alive

        3. to sustain life, to live on or upon

        4. to live (prosperously)

      2. to revive, be quickened

        1. from sickness

        2. from discouragement

        3. from faintness

        4. from death

    2. (Piel)

      1. to preserve alive, let live

      2. to give life

      3. to quicken, revive, refresh

        1. to restore to life

        2. to cause to grow

        3. to restore

        4. to revive

    3. (Hiphil)

      1. to preserve alive, let live

      2. to quicken, revive

        1. to restore (to health)

        2. to revive

        3. to restore to life

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
חָיָה châyâh, khaw-yaw'; a primitive root (compare H2331, H2421); to live, whether literally or figuratively; causatively, to revive:—keep (leave, make) alive, × certainly, give (promise) life, (let, suffer to) live, nourish up, preserve (alive), quicken, recover, repair, restore (to life), revive, (× God) save (alive, life, lives), × surely, be whole.
STRONGS H2421: Abbreviations
חָיָה 283 verb live (Late Hebrew Phoenician id.; Arabic حَىَّ, حَيِىَ; Sabean חיו MordtZMG 1876, 28; Ethiopic ሐደወ፡ Aramaic axYo, חֲיָא; Palmyrene חיי life, life-time, Vog32, 74) —
Qal 203 Perfect חָיָה Ecclesiastes 6:6 + 4 times; יְ֯חָיָה Jeremiah 21:9; Jeremiah 38:2; חַי [H2425 Genesis 5:5] + 23 times (this and the following form are treated as עע֞, the original weakness of the stem final י admitting of either לה֞ or עע֞, Ges§ 76 (2) g); וְחֵי Leviticus 25:36 (Bö§ 1181); 3rd person feminine singular חָֽיְתָה Genesis 12:13; Jeremiah 38:17; וָחָ֑יָה [H2425 Exodus 1:16] (for חַיָּה§ 1123 (3), Samaritan חיתה); 2nd person masculine singular חָיִיתָ Deuteronomy 30:16, חָיִתָה Jeremiah 38:17; 3rd person masculine plural חָיוּ Numbers 14:38, וְחָיוּ consecutive Numbers 4:19 + Zechariah 10:9 (where read Pi. וְחִיּוּ StaZAW i. 1881, 22 so Greek Version of the LXX); וִחְיִיתֶם Ezekiel 37:5 + 2 times; Imperfect יִחְיֶה Genesis 17:18 + 27 times; יְחִי Deuteronomy 33:6 + 10 times; וִיחִי Psalm 49:10 + 2 times; וְיֶחִ֑י Isaiah 38:21, וַיְחִי Genesis 5:3 + 37 times; וַיֶּחִ֑י Deuteronomy 4:33 + 4 times; 3rd person feminine singular תִּחְיֶה Joshua 6:17, תְּחִי Genesis 19:20 + 5 times; 2nd person masculine singular תִּחְיֶה Genesis 27:40 + 7 times; 2nd person feminine singular תִּחְיִי 2 Kings 4:7; 1st person singular אֶחְיֶה 2 Kings 1:2 + 8 times; 3rd person masculine plural יִחְיוּ Joshua 9:21 + 8 times; 3rd person feminine plural תִּחְיֶינָה Ezekiel 13:19; Ezekiel 37:3; 2nd person masculine plural תִּחְיוּ Deuteronomy 4:1 + 2 times; תִּחְיוּן Deuteronomy 5:30; Deuteronomy 8:1; 1st person plural נִחְיֶה 2 Kings 7:4 + 7 times; Imperative וֶחְיֵה Genesis 20:7; Proverbs 4:4, וֶחְיֶ֯ה Proverbs 7:2; feminine singular חֲיִי Ezekiel 16:6 (twice in verse); masculine plural וִחְיוּ Genesis 42:18 + 7 times; Infinitive absolute חָיֹה 2 Kings 8:10 + 6 times; חָיוֺ Ezekiel 3:21 + 3 times; construct לִחְיוֺת Ezekiel 33:12, suffix חֲיוֺתָם Joshua 5:8; —
1. live:
a. have life, Genesis 31:32 (E), [H2425 Exodus 33:20] (J), Numbers 4:19 (P), Deuteronomy 30:16 +; also in phrase וַיְחִי and he lived (so many years) with accusative of time, Genesis 5:3-30 (16 times) Genesis 9:28; Genesis 11:11-26 (14 times) Genesis 47:28 (all P), Genesis 50:22 (E), 2 Kings 14:17 2 Chronicles 25:25; Job 42:16.
b. continue in life, remain alive Genesis 20:7 (E), Leviticus 25:36; 2 Samuel 12:22 +; also נפשׁ ח׳ live, of the soul or the self Genesis 12:13; Genesis 19:20 (J), 1 Kings 20:32; Psalm 119:175; Jeremiah 38:2, 17, 20; Isaiah 55:3; וְחַי הַיָּ֑לֶד and the boy may live 2 Samuel 12:22; לִפְנֵי ח׳ live in the presence of Genesis 17:18 (P) Hosea 6:2; ב׳ ח׳ live among Lamentations 4:20.
†c. sustain life, live on or upon (על), of the animal life, by the sword Genesis 27:40 (J), by bread Deuteronomy 8:3; elsewhere in pregnant sense of fulness of life in divine favour, sustained by (על) everything that issueth out of the mouth of י׳ Deuteronomy 8:3; his promises (?) Isaiah 38:16; of wicked man, by repentance Ezekiel 33:19; with בְּ by the statutes and judgments of י׳ if a man do them, [H2425 Leviticus 18:5 (H) Ezekiel 20:11, 13, 21, 25]; Nehemiah 9:29; צַדִּיק בֶּאֱמוּנָתוֺ יִחְיֶה a righteous man by his faithfulness shall live Habakkuk 2:4.
†d. live (prosperously) יְחִי הַמֶּלֶך may the king live 1 Samuel 10:24; 2 Samuel 16:16 (twice in verse); 1 Kings 1:25, 31, 34, 39; 2 Kings 11:12; 2 Chronicles 23:11; יְחִי לְבַבְכֶם Psalm 22:27; Psalm 69:33; המלך לעולם יחיה Nehemiah 2:3.
†2. be quickened, revive:
a. from sickness [H2425 Numbers 21:8, 9]; Joshua 5:8 (E) 2 Kings 1:2; 2 Kings 8:8, 9, 10, 14; 2 Kings 20:1, 7 = Isaiah 38:1; Isaiah 38:9; Isaiah 38:21.
b. from discouragement of the spirit Genesis 45:27 (E).
c. from faintness Judges 15:19.
d. from death 2 Kings 13:21; Job 14:14; Isaiah 26:14, 19; by return of נפשׁ 1 Kings 17:22, of רוּהַ Ezekiel 37:3, 5, 6, 9, 10, 14 (and so Judges 15:19 c).
†Pi. Perfect 3rd person masculine singular חִיָּה Psalm 22:30; 3rd person feminine singular suffix חִיָּ֑תְנִי Psalm 119:50; 2nd person masculine singular suffix חִיִּיתַנִי Psalm 30:4; חִיִּיתָ֑נִי Paslm Psalm 119:93; 3rd person plural חִיּוּ Judges 21:14, הַחִיִּיתֶם Numbers 31:15; Imperfect יְחַיֶּה 1 Samuel 27:9 +, etc.; Imperative suffix חַיֵּנִי Psalm 119:25 + 8 times, חַיֵּיהוּ Habakkuk 3:2; Infinitive construct חַיּוֺת Genesis 7:3; Ezekiel 13:19; suffix חַיֹּתֵנוּ Deuteronomy 6:24 +, etc.; Participle מְחַיֶּה Nehemiah 9:6; 1 Samuel 2:6; —
1. preserve alive, let live Exodus 1:17, 18, 22; Exodus 22:17; Joshua 9:15 (JE), Genesis 12:12 (J), Numbers 31:15 (P), Deuteronomy 6:24; Deuteronomy 20:16; Judges 21:14; 1 Samuel 27:9, 11; 1 Kings 18:5; 2 Kings 7:4; Jeremiah 49:11; Ezekiel 3:18; Habakkuk 3:2; Job 36:6; Psalm 30:4; Psalm 33:19; Psalm 41:3; Psalm 138:7; נפשׁ ח׳ preserve oneself alive Psalm 22:30; Ezekiel 18:27, or preserve persons alive Ezekiel 13:18, 19, or preserve life 1 Kings 20:31; זרע ח׳ preserve seed alive Genesis 7:3; Genesis 19:32, 34 (J); keep in existence heaven and earth Nehemiah 9:6; nourish, young cow Isaiah 7:21, lamb 2 Samuel 12:3.
2. give life, to man when created Job 33:4.
3. quicken, revive, refresh:
a. restore to life, the dead 1 Samuel 2:6; Deuteronomy 32:39; Hosea 6:2; the dying Psalm 71:20.
b. cause to grow, grain Hosea 14:8.
c. restore, a ruined city 1 Chronicles 11:8, stones destroyed by fire Nehemiah 3:34.
d. revive, the people of י׳ by י׳ himself with fulness of life in his favour Psalm 80:19; Psalm 85:7; Psalm 119:25, 37, 40, 50, 88, 93, 107, 149, 154, 156, 159; Psalm 143:11; Ecclesiastes 7:12.
†Hiph. Perfect הֶחֱיָה Joshua 6:25 + 5 times; 2nd person masculine singular suffix הֶחֱיִתָנוּ Genesis 47:25; 1st person singular הֶחֱיֵיתִי Numbers 22:33, הַחֲיִתֶם Joshua 2:13; Judges 8:19; Imperative suffix הַחֲיֵינִי Isaiah 38:16; הַחֲיוּ Numbers 31:18; Infinitive absolute הַחֲיֵה Joshua 9:20; construct הַחֲיוֺת Genesis 6:20 + 6 times; הַחֲיֹת Genesis 6:19; Genesis 50:20; suffix הַחֲיֹתוֺ Ezekiel 13:22; —
2. quicken, revive:
a. restore to health, a leper 2 Kings 5:7, Hezekiah Isaiah 38:16.
b. revive the לֵב and רוּחַ Isaiah 57:15 (twice in verse).
c. restore to life, the dead 2 Kings 8:1, 5 (3 times in verse).

See related Aramaic BDB entry H2418.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

5:3; 5:3; 5:4; 5:5; 5:6; 5:7; 5:8; 5:9; 5:10; 5:11; 5:12; 5:13; 5:14; 5:15; 5:16; 5:17; 5:18; 5:19; 5:20; 5:21; 5:22; 5:23; 5:24; 5:25; 5:26; 5:27; 5:28; 5:29; 5:30; 6:19; 6:19; 6:20; 6:20; 7:3; 7:3; 9:28; 11:11; 11:12; 11:13; 11:14; 11:15; 11:16; 11:17; 11:18; 11:19; 11:20; 11:21; 11:22; 11:23; 11:24; 11:25; 11:26; 12:12; 12:13; 12:13; 17:18; 17:18; 19:19; 19:20; 19:20; 19:32; 19:34; 20:7; 20:7; 27:40; 27:40; 31:32; 42:18; 45:7; 45:27; 47:25; 47:25; 47:28; 50:20; 50:20; 50:22

Exodus

1:17; 1:18; 1:22; 22:17

Leviticus

25:36; 25:36

Numbers

4:19; 4:19; 14:38; 22:33; 22:33; 31:15; 31:15; 31:18; 31:18

Deuteronomy

4:1; 4:33; 5:30; 6:24; 6:24; 8:1; 8:3; 8:3; 20:16; 30:16; 30:16; 32:39; 33:6

Joshua

2:13; 2:13; 5:8; 5:8; 6:17; 6:25; 6:25; 9:15; 9:20; 9:20; 9:21; 14:10

Judges

8:19; 8:19; 15:19; 15:19; 21:14; 21:14

1 Samuel

2:6; 2:6; 10:24; 27:9; 27:9; 27:11

2 Samuel

8:2; 12:3; 12:22; 12:22; 16:16

1 Kings

1:25; 1:31; 1:34; 1:39; 17:22; 18:5; 20:31; 20:32

2 Kings

1:2; 1:2; 4:7; 5:7; 7:4; 7:4; 8:1; 8:5; 8:8; 8:9; 8:10; 8:10; 8:14; 11:12; 13:21; 14:17; 20:1; 20:7

1 Chronicles

11:8

2 Chronicles

23:11; 25:25

Nehemiah

2:3; 9:6; 9:6; 9:29

Job

14:14; 33:4; 36:6; 42:16

Psalms

22:27; 22:30; 22:30; 30:4; 30:4; 33:19; 41:3; 49:10; 69:33; 71:20; 80:19; 85:7; 119:25; 119:25; 119:37; 119:40; 119:50; 119:50; 119:88; 119:93; 119:93; 119:107; 119:149; 119:154; 119:156; 119:159; 119:175; 138:7; 143:11

Proverbs

4:4; 7:2

Ecclesiastes

6:6; 7:12

Isaiah

7:21; 26:14; 26:19; 38:1; 38:9; 38:16; 38:16; 38:16; 38:21; 38:21; 55:3; 57:15

Jeremiah

21:9; 38:2; 38:2; 38:17; 38:17; 38:17; 38:20; 49:11

Lamentations

4:20

Ezekiel

3:18; 3:21; 13:18; 13:19; 13:19; 13:19; 13:22; 13:22; 16:6; 18:27; 33:12; 33:19; 37:3; 37:3; 37:5; 37:5; 37:6; 37:9; 37:10; 37:14

Hosea

6:2; 6:2; 14:8

Habakkuk

2:4; 3:2; 3:2

Zechariah

10:9

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H2421 matches the Hebrew חָיָה (ḥāyâ),
which occurs 265 times in 239 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 4 / 5 (Psa 80:18–Eze 3:21)

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 80:18 -

Then we shall not turn back from You;

Revive H2421 us, and we will call upon Your name.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 85:6 -

Will You not Yourself return to [fn]revive H2421 us,

That Your people may be glad in You?

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:48 -

What man can live H2421 and not see death?

Can he provide his soul escape from the [fn]power of Sheol? Selah.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 118:17 -

I will not die; indeed I will live H2421,

And recount the works of Yah.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:17 -

Gimel

Deal bountifully with Your slave,

That I may live H2421 and keep Your word.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:25 -

Daleth

My soul clings to the dust;

Revive H2421 me according to Your word.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:37 -

Cause my eyes to turn away from looking at worthlessness,

And revive H2421 me in Your ways.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:40 -

Behold, I long for Your precepts;

Revive H2421 me in Your righteousness.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:50 -

This is my comfort in my affliction,

That Your word has [fn]revived H2421 me.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:77 -

May Your compassion come to me that I may live H2421,

For Your law is my delight.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:88 -

Revive H2421 me according to Your lovingkindness,

So that I may keep the testimony of Your mouth.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:93 -

I will never forget Your precepts,

For by them You have [fn]revived H2421 me.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:107 -

I am exceedingly afflicted;

O Yahweh, [fn]revive H2421 me according to Your word.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:116 -

Sustain me according to Your [fn]word, that I may live H2421;

And do not put me to shame because of my hope.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:144 -

Righteous are Your testimonies forever;

Give me understanding that I may live H2421.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:149 -

Hear my voice according to Your lovingkindness;

O Yahweh, revive H2421 me, according to Your judgments.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:154 -

Plead my cause and redeem me;

Revive H2421 me according to Your [fn]word.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:156 -

Many are Your [fn]compassions, O Yahweh;

Revive H2421 me according to Your judgments.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:159 -

See how I love Your precepts;

O Yahweh, revive H2421 me according to Your lovingkindness.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:175 -

Let my soul live H2421 that it may praise You,

And let Your judgments help me.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 138:7 -

Though I walk in the midst of [fn]distress, You will [fn]revive H2421 me;

You will stretch forth Your hand against the wrath of my enemies,

And Your right hand will save me.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 143:11 -

For the sake of Your name, O Yahweh, revive H2421 me.

In Your righteousness bring my soul out of distress.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:4 -

Then he instructed me and said to me,

“Let your heart hold fast my words;

Keep my commandments and live H2421;

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:2 -

Keep my commandments and live H2421,

And my [fn]law as the [fn]apple of your eye.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 9:6 -

[fn]Forsake your simplicity and live H2421,

And step into the way of understanding.”

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 15:27 -

He who is greedy for gain troubles his own house,

But he who hates gifts of bribery will live H2421.

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 6:3 - If a man becomes the father of one hundred children and lives H2421 many years, however many the days of his years may be, but his soul is not satisfied with good things, and he does not even have a proper burial, then I say, “Better the miscarriage than he,
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 6:6 - “Even if the other man lives H2421 one thousand years twice and does not see good things—do not all go to the same place?”
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:12 -

For wisdom is a shadow of protection as money is a shadow of protection,

And the advantage of knowledge is that wisdom preserves H2421 the lives H2421 of its masters.

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 11:8 - Indeed, if a man should live H2421 many years, let him be glad in them all, and let him remember the days of darkness, for they will be many. Everything that is to come will be vanity.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:21 -

And it will be in that day, that a man may keep H2421 alive H2421 a heifer and a pair of sheep;

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 26:14 -

The dead will not live H2421; the [fn]departed spirits will not rise;

Therefore You have visited and destroyed them,

And You have made all remembrance of them perish.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 26:19 -

Your dead will live H2421;

[fn]Their corpses will rise.

You who dwell in the dust, awake and shout for joy,

For your dew is as the dew of the [fn]dawn,

And the earth will [fn]give birth to the [fn]departed spirits.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:1 -

In those days Hezekiah became ill to the point of death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him and said to him, “Thus says Yahweh, ‘Set your house in order, for you shall die and not live H2421.’”

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:9 -

A writing of Hezekiah king of Judah after his illness and [fn]recovery H2421:

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:16 -

“O Lord, by these things men live H2421,

And in all these is the life of my spirit;

[fn]O restore me to health and let me live H2421!

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:21 -

Now Isaiah had said, “Let them take up a cake of figs and apply it to the boil, that he may live H2421.”

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 55:3 -

“Incline your ear and come to Me.

Listen, that your soul may live H2421;

And I will cut an everlasting covenant with you,

According to the faithful lovingkindnesses of David.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:15 -

For thus says the One high and lifted up

Who dwells forever, whose name is Holy,

“I dwell on a high and holy place,

And also with the crushed and lowly of spirit

In order to revive H2421 the spirit of the lowly

And to revive H2421 the heart of the crushed.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 21:9 - “He who inhabits this city will die by the sword and by famine and by pestilence; but he who goes out and falls away to the Chaldeans who are besieging you will live H2421, and he will have his own life as spoil.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:12 -

I spoke words like all these to Zedekiah king of Judah, saying, “Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serve him and his people, and live H2421!

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:17 - “Do not listen to them; serve the king of Babylon, and live H2421! Why should this city become a waste place?
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 35:7 - ‘And you shall not build a house, and you shall not sow seed, and you shall not plant a vineyard or own one; but tents you shall inhabit all your days, that you may live H2421 many days in the land where you sojourn.’
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:2 - “Thus says Yahweh, ‘He who stays in this city will die by the sword and by the famine and by the pestilence, but he who goes out to the Chaldeans will live H2421 and have his own life as spoil and stay H2421 alive H2421.’
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:17 -

Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, “Thus says Yahweh God of hosts, the God of Israel, ‘If you will indeed go out to the [fn]officers of the king of Babylon, then [fn]you will live H2421, this city will not be burned with fire, and you and your household will live H2421.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:20 - But Jeremiah said, “They will not give you over. Please listen to the voice of Yahweh in what I am saying to you, that it may go well with you and [fn]you may live H2421.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:11 -

“Leave your [fn]orphans behind, I will keep H2421 them alive H2421;

And let your widows trust in Me.”

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:20 -

Resh

The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of Yahweh,

Was captured in their pits,

Of whom we had said, “Under his shadow

We shall live H2421 among the nations.”

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:18 - “When I say to the wicked, ‘You will surely die,’ and you do not warn him or speak out to warn the wicked from his wicked way that he may live H2421, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at your hand.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:21 - “However, if you have warned [fn]the righteous man that the righteous should not sin and he does not sin, he shall surely H2421 live H2421 because he took warning; and you have delivered yourself.”

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