חָיָה
cha.yah
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
Lexicon: STEPBible Tyndale House Brief Lexicons (TBESH / TBESG) (CC BY 4.0)
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Concordance 257 verses
- Isaiah 38:21 וְיֶֽחִי׃
Now Isaiah had said, “Prepare a lump of pressed figs and apply it to the boil, and he will recover.”
- Isaiah 55:3 וּתְחִ֣י
Incline your ear and come to Me; listen, so that your soul may live. I will make with you an everlasting covenant— My loving devotion promised to David.
- Isaiah 57:15 לְהַחֲיוֹת֙וּֽלְהַחֲי֖וֹת
For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in a high and holy place, and with the oppressed and humble in spirit, to restore the spirit of the lowly and revive the heart of the contrite.
- Jeremiah 21:9 יִחְיֶה
Whoever stays in this city will die by sword and famine and plague, but whoever goes out and surrenders to the Chaldeans who besiege you will live; he will retain his life like a spoil of war.
- Jeremiah 27:12 וִֽחְיֽוּ׃
And to Zedekiah king of Judah I spoke the same message: “Put your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon; serve him and his people, and live!
- Jeremiah 27:17 וִֽחְי֑וּ
Do not listen to them. Serve the king of Babylon and live! Why should this city become a ruin?
- Jeremiah 35:7 תִּֽחְי֜וּ
Nor are you ever to build a house or sow seed or plant a vineyard. Those things are not for you. Instead, you must live in tents all your lives, so that you may live a long time in the land where you wander.’
- Jeremiah 38:2 יִחְיֶהוָחָֽי׃ס
“This is what the LORD says: Whoever stays in this city will die by sword and famine and plague, but whoever surrenders to the Chaldeans will live; he will retain his life like a spoil of war, and he will live.
- Jeremiah 38:17 וְחָיְתָ֣הוְחָיִ֖תָה
Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, “This is what the LORD God of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘If you indeed surrender to the officers of the king of Babylon, then you will live, this city will not be burned down, and you and your household will survive.
- Jeremiah 38:20 וּתְחִ֥י
“They will not hand you over,” Jeremiah replied. “Obey the voice of the LORD in what I am telling you, that it may go well with you and you may live.
- Jeremiah 49:11 אֲחַיֶּ֑ה
Abandon your orphans; I will preserve their lives. Let your widows trust in Me.”
- Lamentations 4:20 נִֽחְיֶ֥ה
The LORD’s anointed, the breath of our life, was captured in their pits. We had said of him, “Under his shadow we will live among the nations.”
- Ezekiel 3:18 לְחַיֹּת֑וֹ
If I say to the wicked man, ‘You will surely die,’ but you do not warn him or speak out to warn him from his wicked way to save his life, that wicked man will die in his iniquity, and I will hold you responsible for his blood.
- Ezekiel 3:21 חָי֤וֹיִֽחְיֶה֙
But if you warn the righteous man not to sin, and he does not sin, he will indeed live because he heeded your warning, and you will have saved yourself.”
- Ezekiel 13:18 תְחַיֶּֽינָה׃
and tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: Woe to the women who sew magic charms on their wrists and make veils for the heads of people of every height, in order to ensnare their souls. Will you ensnare the souls of My people but preserve your own?
- Ezekiel 13:19 וּלְחַיּ֥וֹתתִֽחְיֶ֑ינָה
You have profaned Me among My people for handfuls of barley and scraps of bread. By lying to My people who would listen, you have killed those who should not have died and spared those who should not have lived.
- Ezekiel 13:22 לְהַחֲיֹתֽוֹ׃
Because you have disheartened the righteous with your lies, even though I have caused them no grief, and because you have encouraged the wicked not to turn from their evil ways to save their lives,
- Ezekiel 16:6 חֲיִ֔יחֲיִֽי׃
Then I passed by and saw you wallowing in your blood, and as you lay there in your blood I said to you, ‘Live!’ There I said to you, ‘Live!’
- Ezekiel 18:9 חָיֹ֣היִֽחְיֶ֔ה
He follows My statutes and faithfully keeps My ordinances. That man is righteous; surely he will live, declares the Lord GOD.
- Ezekiel 18:13 וָחָ֑ייִֽחְיֶ֗ה
He engages in usury and takes excess interest. Will this son live? He will not! Since he has committed all these abominations, he will surely die; his blood will be on his own head.
- Ezekiel 18:17 חָיֹ֥היִחְיֶֽה׃
He withholds his hand from harming the poor and takes no interest or usury. He keeps My ordinances and follows My statutes. Such a man will not die for his father’s iniquity. He will surely live.
- Ezekiel 18:19 חָיֹ֥היִחְיֶֽה׃
Yet you may ask, ‘Why shouldn’t the son bear the iniquity of his father?’ Since the son has done what is just and right, carefully observing all My statutes, he will surely live.
- Ezekiel 18:21 חָיֹ֥היִחְיֶ֖ה
But if the wicked man turns from all the sins he has committed, keeps all My statutes, and does what is just and right, he will surely live; he will not die.
- Ezekiel 18:22 יִֽחְיֶֽה׃
None of the transgressions he has committed will be held against him. Because of the righteousness he has practiced, he will live.
- Ezekiel 18:23 וְחָיָֽה׃ס
Do I take any pleasure in the death of the wicked? declares the Lord GOD. Wouldn’t I prefer that he turn from his ways and live?
- Ezekiel 18:24 וָחָ֑י
But if a righteous man turns from his righteousness and practices iniquity, committing the same abominations as the wicked, will he live? None of the righteous acts he did will be remembered. Because of the unfaithfulness and sin he has committed, he will die.
- Ezekiel 18:27 יְחַיֶּֽה׃
But if a wicked man turns from the wickedness he has committed and does what is just and right, he will save his life.
- Ezekiel 18:28 חָי֥וֹיִחְיֶ֖ה
Because he considered and turned from all the transgressions he had committed, he will surely live; he will not die.
- Ezekiel 18:32 וִֽחְיֽוּ׃פ
For I take no pleasure in anyone’s death, declares the Lord GOD. So repent and live!
- Ezekiel 20:11 וָחַ֥י
And I gave them My statutes and made known to them My ordinances—for the man who does these things will live by them.
- Ezekiel 20:13 וָחַ֣י
Yet the house of Israel rebelled against Me in the wilderness. They did not follow My statutes and they rejected My ordinances—though the man who does these things will live by them—and they utterly profaned My Sabbaths. Then I resolved to pour out My wrath upon them and put an end to them in the wilderness.
- Ezekiel 20:21 וָחַ֣י
But the children rebelled against Me. They did not walk in My statutes or carefully observe My ordinances—though the man who does these things will live by them—and they profaned My Sabbaths. So I resolved to pour out My wrath upon them and vent My anger against them in the wilderness.
- Ezekiel 20:25 יִֽחְי֖וּ
I also gave them over to statutes that were not good and ordinances by which they could not live.
- Ezekiel 33:10 נִֽחְיֶֽה׃
Now as for you, son of man, tell the house of Israel that this is what they have said: ‘Our transgressions and our sins are heavy upon us, and we are wasting away because of them! How can we live?’
- Ezekiel 33:11 וְחָיָ֑ה
Say to them: ‘As surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that the wicked should turn from their ways and live. Turn! Turn from your evil ways! For why should you die, O house of Israel?’
- Ezekiel 33:12 לִֽחְי֥וֹת
Therefore, son of man, say to your people: ‘The righteousness of the righteous man will not deliver him in the day of his transgression; neither will the wickedness of the wicked man cause him to stumble on the day he turns from his wickedness. Nor will the righteous man be able to survive by his righteousness on the day he sins.’
- Ezekiel 33:13 חָיֹ֣היִֽחְיֶ֔ה
If I tell the righteous man that he will surely live, but he then trusts in his righteousness and commits iniquity, then none of his righteous works will be remembered; he will die because of the iniquity he has committed.
- Ezekiel 33:15 חָי֥וֹיִֽחְיֶ֖ה
if he restores a pledge, makes restitution for what he has stolen, and walks in the statutes of life without practicing iniquity—then he will surely live; he will not die.
- Ezekiel 33:16 חָי֥וֹיִֽחְיֶֽה׃
None of the sins he has committed will be held against him. He has done what is just and right; he will surely live.
- Ezekiel 33:19 יִֽחְיֶֽה׃
But if a wicked man turns from his wickedness and does what is just and right, he will live because of this.
- Ezekiel 37:3 הֲתִחְיֶ֖ינָה
Then He asked me, “Son of man, can these bones come to life?” “O Lord GOD,” I replied, “only You know.”
- Ezekiel 37:5 וִחְיִיתֶֽם׃
This is what the Lord GOD says to these bones: I will cause breath to enter you, and you will come to life.
- Ezekiel 37:6 וִחְיִיתֶ֑ם
I will attach tendons to you and make flesh grow upon you and cover you with skin. I will put breath within you so that you will come to life. Then you will know that I am the LORD.’”
- Ezekiel 37:9 וְיִֽחְיֽוּ׃
Then He said to me, “Prophesy to the breath; prophesy, son of man, and tell the breath that this is what the Lord GOD says: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe into these slain, so that they may live!”
- Ezekiel 37:10 וַיִּֽחְי֗וּ
So I prophesied as He had commanded me, and the breath entered them, and they came to life and stood on their feet—a vast army.
- Ezekiel 37:14 וִחְיִיתֶ֔ם
I will put My Spirit in you and you will live, and I will settle you in your own land. Then you will know that I, the LORD, have spoken, and I will do it, declares the LORD.’”
- Ezekiel 47:9 יִֽחְיֶ֔הוָחָ֔י
Wherever the river flows, there will be swarms of living creatures and a great number of fish, because it flows there and makes the waters fresh; so wherever the river flows, everything will flourish.
- Hosea 6:2 יְחַיֵּ֖נוּוְנִחְיֶ֥ה
After two days He will revive us; on the third day He will raise us up, that we may live in His presence.
- Hosea 14:7 יְחַיּ֥וּ
They will return and dwell in his shade; they will grow grain and blossom like the vine. His renown will be like the wine of Lebanon.
- Amos 5:4 וִֽחְיֽוּ׃
For this is what the LORD says to the house of Israel: “Seek Me and live!