חָיָה

cha.yah

Hebrew H2421 Verb 282 occurrences in 257 verses
חָיָה to live

1. to live, have life, remain alive, sustain life, live prosperously, live for ever, be quickened, be alive, be restored to life or health

a. (Qal)

1. to live

a. to have life

b. to continue in life, remain alive

c. to sustain life, to live on or upon

d. to live (prosperously)

2. to revive, be quickened

a. from sickness

b. from discouragement

c. from faintness

d. from death

b. (Piel)

1. to preserve alive, let live

2. to give life

3. to quicken, revive, refresh

a. to restore to life

b. to cause to grow

c. to restore

d. to revive

c. (Hiphil)

1. to preserve alive, let live

2. to quicken, revive

a. to restore (to health)

b. to revive

c. to restore to life

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Concordance 257 verses

  1. Genesis 42:18 וִֽחְי֑וּ

    and on the third day he said to them, “I fear God. So do this and you will live:

  2. Genesis 43:8 וְנִֽחְיֶה֙

    And Judah said to his father Israel, “Send the boy with me, and we will go at once, so that we may live and not die—neither we, nor you, nor our children.

  3. Genesis 45:7 וּלְהַחֲי֣וֹת

    God sent me before you to preserve you as a remnant on the earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.

  4. Genesis 45:27 וַתְּחִ֕י

    However, when they relayed all that Joseph had told them, and when he saw the wagons that Joseph had sent to carry him back, the spirit of their father Jacob was revived.

  5. Genesis 47:19 וְנִֽחְיֶה֙

    Why should we perish before your eyes—we and our land as well? Purchase us and our land in exchange for food. Then we, along with our land, will be slaves to Pharaoh. Give us seed that we may live and not die, and that the land may not become desolate.”

  6. Genesis 47:25 הֶחֱיִתָ֑נוּ

    “You have saved our lives,” they said. “We have found favor in our lord’s eyes, and we will be Pharaoh’s servants.”

  7. Genesis 47:28 וַיְחִ֤י

    And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years, and the length of his life was 147 years.

  8. Genesis 50:20 לְהַחֲיֹ֥ת

    As for you, what you intended against me for evil, God intended for good, in order to accomplish a day like this—to preserve the lives of many people.

  9. Genesis 50:22 וַיְחִ֣י

    Now Joseph and his father’s household remained in Egypt, and Joseph lived to the age of 110.

  10. Exodus 1:16 וָחָֽיָה׃

    “When you help the Hebrew women give birth, observe them on the birthstools. If the child is a son, kill him; but if it is a daughter, let her live.”

  11. Exodus 1:17 וַתְּחַיֶּ֖יןָ

    The midwives, however, feared God and did not do as the king of Egypt had instructed; they let the boys live.

  12. Exodus 1:18 וַתְּחַיֶּ֖יןָ

    So the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and asked them, “Why have you done this? Why have you let the boys live?”

  13. Exodus 1:22 תְּחַיּֽוּן׃ס

    Then Pharaoh commanded all his people: “Every son born to the Hebrews you must throw into the Nile, but every daughter you may allow to live.”

  14. Exodus 19:13 יִחְיֶ֑ה

    No hand shall touch him, but he shall surely be stoned or shot with arrows—whether man or beast, he must not live.’ Only when the ram’s horn sounds a long blast may they approach the mountain.”

  15. Exodus 22:18 תְחַיֶּֽה׃ס

    You must not allow a sorceress to live.

  16. Exodus 33:20 וָחָֽי׃

    But He added, “You cannot see My face, for no one can see Me and live.”

  17. Leviticus 18:5 וָחַ֣י

    Keep My statutes and My judgments, for the man who does these things will live by them. I am the LORD.

  18. Leviticus 25:35 וָחַ֖י

    Now if your countryman becomes destitute and cannot support himself among you, then you are to help him as you would a foreigner or stranger, so that he can continue to live among you.

  19. Leviticus 25:36 וְחֵ֥י

    Do not take any interest or profit from him, but fear your God, that your countryman may live among you.

  20. Numbers 4:19 וְחָיוּ֙

    In order that they may live and not die when they come near the most holy things, do this for them: Aaron and his sons are to go in and assign each man his task and what he is to carry.

  21. Numbers 14:38 חָיוּ֙

    Of those men who had gone to spy out the land, only Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh remained alive.

  22. Numbers 21:8 וָחָֽי׃

    Then the LORD said to Moses, “Make a fiery serpent and mount it on a pole. When anyone who is bitten looks at it, he will live.”

  23. Numbers 21:9 וָחָֽי׃

    So Moses made a bronze snake and mounted it on a pole. If anyone who was bitten looked at the bronze snake, he would live.

  24. Numbers 22:33 הֶחֱיֵֽיתִי׃

    The donkey saw me and turned away from me these three times. If she had not turned away, then by now I would surely have killed you and let her live.”

  25. Numbers 24:23 יִחְיֶ֖ה

    Once more Balaam lifted up an oracle, saying: “Ah, who can live unless God has ordained it?

  26. Numbers 31:15 הַֽחִיִּיתֶ֖ם

    “Have you spared all the women?” he asked them.

  27. Numbers 31:18 הַחֲי֖וּ

    but spare for yourselves every girl who has never had relations with a man.

  28. Deuteronomy 4:1 תִּֽחְי֗וּ

    Hear now, O Israel, the statutes and ordinances I am teaching you to follow, so that you may live and may enter and take possession of the land that the LORD, the God of your fathers, is giving you.

  29. Deuteronomy 4:33 וַיֶּֽחִי׃

    Has a people ever heard the voice of God speaking out of the fire, as you have, and lived?

  30. Deuteronomy 4:42 וָחָֽי׃

    to which a manslayer could flee after killing his neighbor unintentionally without prior malice. To save one’s own life, he could flee to one of these cities:

  31. Deuteronomy 5:24 וָחָֽי׃

    and you said, “Behold, the LORD our God has shown us His glory and greatness, and we have heard His voice out of the fire. Today we have seen that a man can live even if God speaks with him.

  32. Deuteronomy 5:26 וַיֶּֽחִי׃

    For who of all flesh has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the fire, as we have, and survived?

  33. Deuteronomy 5:33 תִּֽחְיוּן֙

    You must walk in all the ways that the LORD your God has commanded you, so that you may live and prosper and prolong your days in the land that you will possess.

  34. Deuteronomy 6:24 לְחַיֹּתֵ֖נוּ

    And the LORD commanded us to observe all these statutes and to fear the LORD our God, that we may always be prosperous and preserved, as we are to this day.

  35. Deuteronomy 8:1 תִּֽחְי֜וּן

    You must carefully follow every commandment I am giving you today, so that you may live and multiply, and enter and possess the land that the LORD swore to give your fathers.

  36. Deuteronomy 8:3 יִחְיֶ֣היִחְיֶ֥ה

    He humbled you, and in your hunger He gave you manna to eat, which neither you nor your fathers had known, so that you might understand that man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD.

  37. Deuteronomy 16:20 תִּֽחְיֶה֙

    Pursue justice, and justice alone, so that you may live, and you may possess the land that the LORD your God is giving you.

  38. Deuteronomy 19:4 וָחָ֑י

    Now this is the situation regarding the manslayer who flees to one of these cities to save his life, having killed his neighbor accidentally, without intending to harm him:

  39. Deuteronomy 19:5 וָחָֽי׃

    If he goes into the forest with his neighbor to cut timber and swings his axe to chop down a tree, but the blade flies off the handle and strikes and kills his neighbor, he may flee to one of these cities to save his life.

  40. Deuteronomy 20:16 תְחַיֶּ֖ה

    However, in the cities of the nations that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, you must not leave alive anything that breathes.

  41. Deuteronomy 30:16 וְחָיִ֣יתָ

    For I am commanding you today to love the LORD your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments, statutes, and ordinances, so that you may live and increase, and the LORD your God may bless you in the land that you are entering to possess.

  42. Deuteronomy 30:19 תִּחְיֶ֖ה

    I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you today that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing. Therefore choose life, so that you and your descendants may live,

  43. Deuteronomy 32:39 וַאֲחַיֶּ֗ה

    See now that I am He; there is no God besides Me. I bring death and I give life; I wound and I heal, and there is no one who can deliver from My hand.

  44. Deuteronomy 33:6 יְחִ֥י

    Let Reuben live and not die, nor his men be few.”

  45. Joshua 2:13 וְהַחֲיִתֶ֞ם

    that you will spare the lives of my father and mother, my brothers and sisters, and all who belong to them, and that you will deliver us from death.”

  46. Joshua 5:8 חֲיוֹתָֽם׃פ

    And after all the nation had been circumcised, they stayed there in the camp until they were healed.

  47. Joshua 6:17 תִּֽחְיֶ֗ה

    Now the city and everything in it must be devoted to the LORD for destruction. Only Rahab the prostitute and all those with her in her house will live, because she hid the spies we sent.

  48. Joshua 6:25 הֶחֱיָ֣ה

    And Joshua spared Rahab the prostitute, with her father’s household and all who belonged to her, because she hid the men Joshua had sent to spy out Jericho. So she has lived among the Israelites to this day.

  49. Joshua 9:15 לְחַיּוֹתָ֑ם

    And Joshua made a treaty of peace with them to let them live, and the leaders of the congregation swore an oath to them.

  50. Joshua 9:20 וְהַחֲיֵ֣ה

    This is how we will treat them: We will let them live, so that no wrath will fall on us because of the oath we swore to them.”

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