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H2421Hebrew

חָיָה

Definition and meaning

chayah (khaw-yaw') v. 1. to live, whether literally or figuratively 2. causatively, to revive [a primitive root] KJV: 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. Compare: H2331, H2421

Tagged KJV passages

235 matching verses - 271.0 tagged occurrences

Highlighted words carry the exact Strong's tag in the installed KJV text. A verse may contain more than one occurrence. These are tagged English renderings, not independently verified original-language token counts.

2 Kings 20:1

In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz came to him, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Set thine house in order; for thou shalt die, and not live.

Matched English: live
2 Kings 20:7

And Isaiah said, Take a lump of figs. And they took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered.

Matched English: recovered
1 Chronicles 11:8

And he built the city round about, even from Millo round about: and Joab repaired the rest of the city.

Matched English: repaired
2 Chronicles 23:11

Then they brought out the king's son, and put upon him the crown, and gave him the testimony, and made him king. And Jehoiada and his sons anointed him, and said, God save the king.

Matched English: save
2 Chronicles 25:25

And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years.

Matched English: lived
Nehemiah 2:3

And said unto the king, Let the king live for ever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' sepulchres, lieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire?

Matched English: live
Nehemiah 4:2

And he spake before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What do these feeble Jews? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned?

Matched English: revive
Nehemiah 5:2

For there were that said, We, our sons, and our daughters, are many: therefore we take up corn for them, that we may eat, and live.

Matched English: live
Nehemiah 9:6

Thou, even thou, art LORD alone; thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and thou preservest them all; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee.

Matched English: preservest
Nehemiah 9:29

And testifiedst against them, that thou mightest bring them again unto thy law: yet they dealt proudly, and hearkened not unto thy commandments, but sinned against thy judgments,(which if a man do, he shall live in them;) and withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear.

Matched English: live
Esther 4:11

All the king's servants, and the people of the king's provinces, do know, that whosoever, whether man or woman, shall come unto the king into the inner court, who is not called, there is one law of his to put him to death, except such to whom the king shall hold out the golden sceptre, that he may live: but I have not been called to come in unto the king these thirty days.

Matched English: live
Job 7:16

I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.

Matched English: live
Job 14:14

If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.

Matched English: live
Job 21:7

Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?

Matched English: live
Job 33:4

The Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life.

Matched English: life
Job 36:6

He preserveth not the life of the wicked: but giveth right to the poor.

Matched English: life
Job 42:16

After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations.

Matched English: lived
Psalms 22:26

The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the LORD that seek him: your heart shall live for ever.

Matched English: live
Psalms 22:29

All they that be fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul.

Matched English: alive
Psalms 30:3

O LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

Matched English: alive
Psalms 33:19

To deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine.

Matched English: alive
Psalms 41:2

The LORD will preserve him, and keep him alive; and he shall be blessed upon the earth: and thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of his enemies.

Matched English: alive
Psalms 49:9

That he should still live for ever, and not see corruption.

Matched English: live
Psalms 69:32

The humble shall see this, and be glad: and your heart shall live that seek God.

Matched English: live