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חָיָה

cha.yahto liveHow to read Hebrew
hebrewOld TestamentVerb282 occurrences27 books257 verses

Definition

a primitive root (compare H2331, H2421); to live, whether literally or figuratively; causatively, to revive
Traditional renderings: keep (leave, make) alive, × certainly, give (promise) life, (let, suffer to) live, nourish up, preserve (alive), quicken, recover, repair, restore (to life), revive, (× God) save (alive, life, lives), × surely, be whole.

In the Greek Old Testament

How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders חָיָה:

Usage patterns

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Occurrences

282 total
  1. Genesis 42:18וִֽחְי֑וּ · and you will live
    …and on the third day he said to them, “I fear God. So do this and you will live:
  2. Genesis 43:8וְנִֽחְיֶה֙ · so that we may live
    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 45:7וּלְהַחֲי֣וֹת · and to save your lives
    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 45:27וַתְּחִ֕י · was revived
    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 47:19וְנִֽחְיֶה֙ · that we may live
    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 47:25הֶחֱיִתָ֑נוּ · You have saved our lives
    “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 47:28וַיְחִ֤י · lived
    And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years, and the length of his life was 147 years.
  8. Genesis 50:20לְהַחֲיֹ֥ת · to preserve the lives
    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 50:22וַיְחִ֣י · lived
    Now Joseph and his father’s household remained in Egypt, and Joseph lived to the age of 110.
  10. Exodus 1:16וָחָֽיָה׃ · let her live
    “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 1:17וַתְּחַיֶּ֖יןָ · live
    The midwives, however, feared God and did not do as the king of Egypt had instructed; they let the boys live.
  12. Exodus 1:18וַתְּחַיֶּ֖יןָ · live
    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 1:22תְּחַיּֽוּן׃ס · you may allow to live
    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 19:13יִחְיֶ֑ה · live
    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 22:18תְחַיֶּֽה׃ס · to live
    You must not allow a sorceress to live.
  16. Exodus 33:20וָחָֽי׃ · and live
    But He added, “You cannot see My face, for no one can see Me and live.”
  17. Leviticus 18:5וָחַ֣י · will live
    Keep My statutes and My judgments, for the man who does these things will live by them. I am the LORD.
  18. Leviticus 25:35וָחַ֖י · so that he can continue to live
    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 25:36וְחֵ֥י · may live
    Do not take any interest or profit from him, but fear your God, that your countryman may live among you.
  20. Numbers 4:19וְחָיוּ֙ · In order that they may live
    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 14:38חָיוּ֙ · remained alive
    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 21:8וָחָֽי׃ · he will live
    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 21:9וָחָֽי׃ · he would live
    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 22:33הֶחֱיֵֽיתִי׃ · live
    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 24:23יִחְיֶ֖ה · can live
    Once more Balaam lifted up an oracle, saying: “Ah, who can live unless God has ordained it?
  26. Numbers 31:15הַֽחִיִּיתֶ֖ם · Have you spared
    “Have you spared all the women?” he asked them.
  27. Numbers 31:18הַחֲי֖וּ · but spare
    …but spare for yourselves every girl who has never had relations with a man.
  28. Deuteronomy 4:1תִּֽחְי֗וּ · you may live
    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 4:33וַיֶּֽחִי׃ · and lived
    Has a people ever heard the voice of God speaking out of the fire, as you have, and lived?
  30. Deuteronomy 4:42וָחָֽי׃ · To save one’s own life
    …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 5:24וָחָֽי׃ · can live
    …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 5:26וַיֶּֽחִי׃ · and survived
    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 5:33תִּֽחְיוּן֙ · you may live
    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 6:24לְחַיֹּתֵ֖נוּ · and preserved
    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 8:1תִּֽחְי֜וּן · you may live
    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 8:3יִחְיֶ֣ה · live; יִחְיֶ֥ה
    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 16:20תִּֽחְיֶה֙ · you may live
    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 19:4וָחָ֑י · to save his life
    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 19:5וָחָֽי׃ · to save his life
    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 20:16תְחַיֶּ֖ה · you must not leave alive
    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 30:16וְחָיִ֣יתָ · so that you may live
    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 30:19תִּחְיֶ֖ה · may live
    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 32:39וַאֲחַיֶּ֗ה · and I give life
    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 33:6יְחִ֥י · live
    Let Reuben live and not die, nor his men be few.”
  45. Joshua 2:13וְהַחֲיִתֶ֞ם · that you will spare the lives
    …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 5:8חֲיוֹתָֽם׃פ · they were healed
    And after all the nation had been circumcised, they stayed there in the camp until they were healed.
  47. Joshua 6:17תִּֽחְיֶ֗ה · will live
    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 6:25הֶחֱיָ֣ה · spared
    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 9:15לְחַיּוֹתָ֑ם · to let them live
    And Joshua made a treaty of peace with them to let them live, and the leaders of the congregation swore an oath to them.