Strong's Concordance

Hebrew-Aramaic
H2421

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Original: חיה

Transliteration: chayah (châyâh)

Phonetic: khaw-yaw'

BDB Definition:

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

Origin: a primitive root [compare H2331, H2424]

TWOT entry: 644

Part(s) of speech: Verb

Strong's Definition: A prim root (compare H2331, H2424); 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.

Occurrences in the (KJV) King James Version:

All Occurrences (268x)

Alive (15x)

And Have Saved (1x)

And He Recovered (1x)

And He Revived (2x)

And He Shall Live (1x)

And He Shall Recover (1x)

And I Make Alive (1x)

And I Shall Live (1x)

And Live (13x)

And Lived (1x)

And Maketh Alive (1x)

And Not Live (2x)

And Nourished Up (1x)

And They Shall Live (1x)

And Thou Shalt Live (2x)

And To Keep Them Alive (1x)

And To Make Alive (1x)

And To Revive (1x)

And To Save (1x)

And To Save Your Lives (1x)

And Was Recovered (1x)

And We Shall Live (1x)

And Will Ye Save (1x)

And Ye Shall Live (1x)

But Live (1x)

By Promising Him Life (1x)

Do They Live (1x)

Doth Not Live (1x)

For Us From Thence; That We May Live (1x)

For With Them Thou Hast Quickened (1x)

From Thee: Quicken (1x)

Giveth Life (1x)

God Save (8x)

Hath Given Me Life (1x)

Hath Kept Me Alive (1x)

Hath Quickened (1x)

He Had Restored To Life (2x)

He Live (1x)

He Preserveth Not The Life (1x)

He Revived (1x)

He Shall Live (3x)

He Shall Not Live (2x)

He Shall Save (1x)

He Shall Surely (8x)

Him, And Keep Him Alive (1x)

Him: And None Can Keep Alive (1x)

How He Had Restored (1x)

I May Live (1x)

I Would Not Live (1x)

If They Save Us Alive (1x)

In Saving (1x)

In Them, How Should We Then Live (1x)

In You, And Ye Shall Live (2x)

Into Them, And They Lived (1x)

Into You, And Ye Shall Live (1x)

It Shall Not Live (1x)

Let Him Not Live (1x)

Live (20x)

Lived (36x)

Liveth (1x)

May Live (1x)

Me, And Make Me To Live (1x)

Me, But They Will Save Thee Alive (1x)

Me: Quicken (1x)

Might Live (1x)

Peradventure He Will Save (1x)

Quicken (9x)

Recover (2x)

Repaired (1x)

Restored To Life (1x)

Revive (1x)

Revived (1x)

Saved (2x)

Shall He Live (1x)

Shall I Recover (2x)

Shall Live (13x)

Shall Nourish (1x)

Shalt Quicken (1x)

Shalt Thou Live (1x)

That He Could Not Live (1x)

That He May Live (1x)

That He Might Preserve Us Alive (1x)

That He Should Still Live (1x)

That I May Live (1x)

That Should Not Live (1x)

That They May Live (1x)

That Thou Mayest Live (2x)

That We May Live (2x)

That Ye May Live (5x)

Thee, And Saved Her Alive (1x)

Them, But Saved (1x)

Them, He Shall Surely (1x)

Therein, And Thou Preservest (1x)

They Shall Not Live (1x)

They Shall Revive (1x)

This Lived (1x)

Thou Hast Kept Me Alive (1x)

Thou Hast Saved Our Lives (1x)

Thou Shalt Save Alive (1x)

100

Thou Shouldest Surely (1x)

101

Thou Wilt Revive (1x)

102

Till They Were Whole (1x)

103

To Keep (1x)

104

To Keep Alive (1x)

105

To Life (1x)

106

To Live (2x)

107

To Revive (1x)

108

To Save (2x)

109

To Save His Life (1x)

110

To Them; We Will Even Let Them Live (1x)

111

Unto Him, Thou Mayest Certainly (1x)

112

Unto Him, Thou Shalt Not Live (1x)

113

Unto Me, That I May Live (1x)

114

Unto Them, Have Ye Saved (1x)

115

Unto Them, Let Them Live (1x)

116

Unto Them, That They May Live (1x)

117

We Shall Live (2x)

118

Whereby They Should Not Live (1x)

119

Whether I Shall Recover (1x)

120

Which They Had Saved Alive (1x)

121

Who Shall Live (1x)

122

Will He Revive (1x)

123

Will They Revive (1x)

124

Wilt Thou Not Revive (1x)

125

With Him, Keep Alive (1x)

126

With Him, That We May Preserve (2x)

127

With Them, To Let Them Live (1x)

128

Ye Had Saved Them Alive (1x)

129

Ye Me, And Ye Shall Live (1x)

130

Ye Shall Save Alive (1x)

131

Ye Will Save Alive (1x)

132

You, He Shall Live (1x)

133

You, That Ye May Live (1x)

All Occurrences

Deuteronomy 4:33

Did ever people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and live?

Deuteronomy 5:26

For who is there of all flesh, that hath heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as we have, and lived?

Deuteronomy 5:33

Ye shall walk in all the ways which the Lord 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 which ye shall possess.

Deuteronomy 6:24

And the Lord commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the Lord our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as it is at this day.

Deuteronomy 8:1

All the commandments which I command thee this day shall ye observe to do, that ye may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the Lord sware unto your fathers.

Deuteronomy 8:3

And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live.

Deuteronomy 16:20

That which is altogether just shalt thou follow, that thou mayest live, and inherit the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.(g)

Deuteronomy 20:16

But of the cities of these people, which the Lord thy God doth give thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth:

Deuteronomy 30:16

In that I command thee this day to love the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the Lord thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.

Deuteronomy 30:19

I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:

Deuteronomy 32:39

See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.

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 they have, and deliver our lives from death.

Joshua 5:8

And it came to pass, when they had done circumcising all the people, that they abode in their places in the camp, till they were whole.(d)

Joshua 6:17

And the city shall be accursed, even it, and all that are therein, to the Lord : only Rahab the harlot shall live, she and all that are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent.(e)

Joshua 6:25

And Joshua saved Rahab the harlot alive, and her father’s household, and all that she had; and she dwelleth in Israel even unto this day; because she hid the messengers, which Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.

Joshua 9:15

And Joshua made peace with them, and made a league with them, to let them live: and the princes of the congregation sware unto them.

Joshua 9:20

This we will do to them; we will even let them live, lest wrath be upon us, because of the oath which we sware unto them.

Joshua 9:21

And the princes said unto them, Let them live; but let them be hewers of wood and drawers of water unto all the congregation; as the princes had promised them.

Joshua 14:10

And now, behold, the Lord hath kept me alive, as he said, these forty and five years, even since the Lord spake this word unto Moses, while the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness: and now, lo, I am this day fourscore and five years old.(a)

Judges 8:19

And he said, They were my brethren, even the sons of my mother: as the Lord liveth, if ye had saved them alive, I would not slay you.

Judges 15:19

But God clave an hollow place that was in the jaw, and there came water thereout; and when he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived: wherefore he called the name thereof En–hakkore, which is in Lehi unto this day.(i)

(j)

Judges 21:14

And Benjamin came again at that time; and they gave them wives which they had saved alive of the women of Jabesh–gilead: and yet so they sufficed them not.

1 Samuel 2:6

The Lord killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up.

1 Samuel 10:24

And Samuel said to all the people, See ye him whom the Lord hath chosen, that there is none like him among all the people? And all the people shouted, and said, God save the king.(i)

1 Samuel 27:9

And David smote the land, and left neither man nor woman alive, and took away the sheep, and the oxen, and the asses, and the camels, and the apparel, and returned, and came to Achish.

1 Samuel 27:11

And David saved neither man nor woman alive, to bring tidings to Gath, saying, Lest they should tell on us, saying, So did David, and so will be his manner all the while he dwelleth in the country of the Philistines.

2 Samuel 1:10

So I stood upon him, and slew him, because I was sure that he could not live after that he was fallen: and I took the crown that was upon his head, and the bracelet that was on his arm, and have brought them hither unto my lord.

2 Samuel 8:2

And he smote Moab, and measured them with a line, casting them down to the ground; even with two lines measured he to put to death, and with one full line to keep alive. And so the Moabites became David’s servants, and brought gifts.

2 Samuel 12:3

But the poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and nourished up: and it grew up together with him, and with his children; it did eat of his own meat, and drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was unto him as a daughter.(a)

2 Samuel 16:16

And it came to pass, when Hushai the Archite, David’s friend, was come unto Absalom, that Hushai said unto Absalom, God save the king, God save the king.(g)

1 Kings 1:25

For he is gone down this day, and hath slain oxen and fat cattle and sheep in abundance, and hath called all the king’s sons, and the captains of the host, and Abiathar the priest; and, behold, they eat and drink before him, and say, God save king Adonijah.(m)

1 Kings 1:31

Then Bath–sheba bowed with her face to the earth, and did reverence to the king, and said, Let my lord king David live for ever.

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Brown-Driver-Brigg's Information

All of the original Hebrew and Aramaic words are arranged by the numbering system from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible. In some cases more than one form of the word — such as the masculine and feminine forms of a noun — may be listed.

Each entry is a Hebrew word, unless it is designated as Aramaic. Immediately after each word is given its equivalent in English letters, according to a system of transliteration. Then follows the phonetic. Next follows the Brown-Driver-Briggs' Definitions given in English.

Then ensues a reference to the same word as found in Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament (TWOT), by R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, Jr., and Bruce K. Waltke. This section makes an association between the unique number used by TWOT with the Strong's number.

Thayers Information

All of the original Greek words are arranged by the numbering system from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible. The Strong's numbering system arranges most Greek words by their alphabetical order. This renders reference easy without recourse to the Greek characters. In some cases more than one form of the word - such as the masculine, feminine, and neuter forms of a noun - may be listed.

Immediately after each word is given its exact equivalent in English letters, according to the system of transliteration laid down in the scheme here following. Then follows the phonetic. Next follows the Thayer's Definitions given in English.

Then ensues a reference to the same word as found in the ten-volume Theological Dictionary of the New Testament (TDNT), edited by Gerhard Kittel. Both volume and page numbers cite where the word may be found.

The presence of an asterisk indicates that the corresponding entry in the Theological Dictionary of the New Testament may appear in a different form than that displayed in Thayers' Greek Definitions.

Strong's Hebrew and Greek Dictionaries Information

Dictionaries of Hebrew and Greek Words taken from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance by James Strong, S.T.D., LL.D., 1890.

Strong's Concor­dance

Hebrew-Aramaic H2421

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Strong's Concordance

Hebrew-Aramaic
H2421