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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 - The LORD God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. Now, lest he put forth his hand, and also take of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever..."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 5:5

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 25:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:7 - These are the days of the years of Avraham's life which he lived: one hundred seventy-five years.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 1:16

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:16 - and he said, "When you perform the duty of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them on the birth stool; if it is a son, then you shall kill him; 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 - He said, "You cannot see my face, for man may not see me and live."

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 18:5

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:5 - You shall therefore keep my statutes and my ordinances; which if a man does, he shall live in them: I am the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 21:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:8 - The LORD said to Moshe, Make you a fiery serpent, and set it on a standard: and it shall happen, that everyone who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 21:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:9 - Moshe made a serpent of brass, and set it on the standard: and it happened, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he looked to the serpent of brass, he lived.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:42

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:42 - that the manslayer might flee there, who kills his neighbor unawares, and didn't hate him in time past; and that fleeing to one of these cities he might live:

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 5:24

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:24 - and you said, Behold, the LORD our God has shown 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 does speak with man, and he lives.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 19:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:4 - This is the case of the manslayer, that shall flee there and live: whoever kills his neighbor unawares, and didn't hate him in time past;

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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 neighbor to hew wood, and his hand fetches a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slips from the handle, and lights on his neighbor, so that he dies; he shall flee to one of these cities and live:

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 20:31

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:31 - For as long as the son of Yishai lives on the eretz, you shall not be established, nor your kingdom. Therefore now send and bring him to me, for he shall surely die.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 6:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:11 - I said, Should such a man as I flee? and who is there that, being such as I, would go into the temple to save his life? I will not go in.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 18:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:13 - has given forth on interest, and has taken increase; shall he then live? he shall not live: he has done all these abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall be on him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 18:24

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:24 - But when the righteous turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and does according to all the abominations that the wicked man does, shall he live? None of his righteous deeds that he has done shall be remembered: in his trespass that he has trespassed, and in his sin that he has sinned, in them shall he die.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 20:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:11 - I gave them my statutes, and shown them my ordinances, which if a man do, he shall live in them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 20:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:13 - But the house of Yisra'el rebelled against me in the wilderness: they didn't walk in my statutes, and they rejected my ordinances, which if a man keep, he shall live in them; and my Shabbatot they greatly profaned. Then I said I would pour out my wrath on them in the wilderness, to consume them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 20:21

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:21 - But the children rebelled against me; they didn't walk in my statutes, neither kept my ordinances to do them, which if a man do, he shall live in them; they profaned my Shabbatot. Then I said I would 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 shall happen, that every living creature which swarms, in every place where the rivers come, shall live; and there shall be a very great multitude of fish; for these waters are come there, and the waters of the sea shall be healed, and everything shall live wherever the river comes.
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