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Lexicon :: Strong's H2425 - ḥāyay

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חָיַי
Transliteration
ḥāyay
Pronunciation
khaw-yah'-ee
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root [compare חָיָה (H2421)]
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 644

Variant Spellings

The following spelling is supported by Strongs and Gesenius: חיי.

Strong’s Definitions

חָיַי châyay, khaw-yah'-ee; a primitive root (compare H2421); to live; causatively to revive:—live, save life.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 23x

The KJV translates Strong's H2425 in the following manner: live (21x), life (1x), non translated variant (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 23x
The KJV translates Strong's H2425 in the following manner: live (21x), life (1x), non translated variant (1x).

  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. (Hiph)

      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)
חָיַי châyay, khaw-yah'-ee; a primitive root (compare H2421); to live; causatively to revive:—live, save life.
STRONGS H2425: Abbreviations
חַי Genesis 5:5 ... וָחָ֑יָה Exodus 1:16
1. live:
a. have life ... Exodus 33:20
†c. ... with בְּ by the statutes and judgments of י׳ if a man do them, Leviticus 18:5 (H) Ezekiel 20:11, 13, 21, 25
†2. be quickened, revive:
a. from sickness Numbers 21:8, 9

This is a portion of the full BDB entry H2421.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2006 by Biblesoft, Inc.
All rights reserved. Used by permission. BibleSoft.com

BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

5:5

Exodus

1:16; 33:20

Leviticus

18:5

Numbers

21:8; 21:9

Ezekiel

20:11; 20:13; 20:21; 20:25

H2425

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H2425 matches the Hebrew חָיַי (ḥāyay),
which occurs 20 times in 20 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 3:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:22 - Then the LORD God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil; and now, he might stretch out his hand, and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever”—

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 5:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:5 - So all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years, and he died.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 25:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:7 - These are [fn]all the years of Abraham’s life that he lived, one hundred and seventy-five years.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 1:16

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:16 - and he said, “When you are helping the Hebrew women to give birth and see them upon the birthstool, if it is a son, then you shall put him to death; but if it is a daughter, then she shall live.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 33:20

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:20 - But He said, “You cannot see My face, for no man can see Me and live!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 18:5

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:5 - ‘So you shall keep My statutes and My judgments, by which a man may live if he does them; I am the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 21:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:8 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “[fn]Make a fiery serpent, and set it on a standard; and it shall come about, that everyone who is bitten, when he looks at it, he will live.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 21:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:9 - And Moses made a bronze serpent and set it on the standard; and it came about, that if a serpent bit any man, when he looked to the bronze serpent, he lived.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:42

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:42 - that a manslayer might flee there, who unintentionally slew his neighbor without having enmity toward him in time past; and by fleeing to one of these cities he might live:

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 5:24

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:24 - “You said, ‘Behold, the LORD our God has shown us His glory and His greatness, and we have heard His voice from the midst of the fire; we have seen today that God speaks with man, yet he lives.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 19:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:4 - “Now this is the case of the manslayer who may flee there and live: when he [fn]kills his friend [fn]unintentionally, [fn]not hating him previously—

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 19:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:5 - as when a man goes into the forest with his friend to cut wood, and his hand [fn]swings the axe to cut down the tree, and the iron head slips off the [fn]handle and [fn]strikes his friend so that he dies—he may flee to one of these cities and live;

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 20:31

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:31 - “For [fn]as long as the son of Jesse lives on the earth, neither you nor your kingdom will be established. Therefore now, send and bring him to me, for he [fn]must surely die.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 6:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:11 - But I said, “Should a man like me flee? And could one such as I go into the temple [fn]to save his life? I will not go in.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 18:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:13 - he lends money on interest and takes increase; will he live? He will not live! He has committed all these abominations, he will surely be put to death; his blood will be [fn]on his own head.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 18:24

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:24 - “But when a righteous man turns away from his righteousness, commits iniquity and does according to all the abominations that a wicked man does, will he live? All his righteous deeds which he has done will not be remembered for his treachery which he has committed and his sin which he has committed; for them he will die.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 20:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:11 - “I gave them My statutes and informed them of My ordinances, by which, if a man [fn]observes them, he will live.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 20:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:13 - “But the house of Israel rebelled against Me in the wilderness. They did not walk in My statutes and they rejected My ordinances, by which, if a man [fn]observes them, he will live; and My sabbaths they greatly profaned. Then I [fn]resolved to pour out My wrath on them in the wilderness, to annihilate them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 20:21

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:21 - “But the children rebelled against Me; they did not walk in My statutes, nor were they careful to observe My ordinances, by which, if a man observes them, he will live; they profaned My sabbaths. So I [fn]resolved to pour out My wrath on them, to accomplish My anger against them in the wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 47:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:9 - “It will come about that every living creature which swarms in every place where the [fn]river goes, will live. And there will be very many fish, for these waters go there and the others [fn]become fresh; so everything will live where the river goes.
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