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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. Ecclesiastes 11:8יִחְיֶ֥ה · lives
    So if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all. But let him remember the days of darkness, for they will be many. Everything to come is futile.
  2. Isaiah 7:21יְחַיֶּה־ · will raise
    On that day a man will raise a young cow and two sheep,
  3. Isaiah 26:14יִחְי֔וּ · live
    The dead will not live; the departed spirits will not rise. Therefore You have punished and destroyed them; You have wiped out all memory of them.
  4. Isaiah 26:19יִֽחְי֣וּ · will live
    Your dead will live; their bodies will rise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust! For your dew is like the dew of the morning, and the earth will bring forth her dead.
  5. Isaiah 38:1תִֽחְיֶֽה׃ · recover
    In those days Hezekiah became mortally ill. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz came to him and said, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Put your house in order, for you are about to die; you will not recover.’”
  6. Isaiah 38:9וַיְחִ֖י · and recovery
    This is a writing by Hezekiah king of Judah after his illness and recovery:
  7. Isaiah 38:16יִֽחְי֑וּ · men live; וְהַחֲיֵֽנִי׃ · and have let me live
    O Lord, by such things men live, and in all of them my spirit finds life. You have restored me to health and have let me live.
  8. Isaiah 38:21וְיֶֽחִי׃ · and he will recover
    Now Isaiah had said, “Prepare a lump of pressed figs and apply it to the boil, and he will recover.”
  9. Isaiah 55:3וּתְחִ֣י · may live
    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.
  10. Isaiah 57:15לְהַחֲיוֹת֙ · to restore; וּֽלְהַחֲי֖וֹת · and revive
    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.
  11. Jeremiah 21:9יִחְיֶה · will live
    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.
  12. Jeremiah 27:12וִֽחְיֽוּ׃ · and live
    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!
  13. Jeremiah 27:17וִֽחְי֑וּ · and live
    Do not listen to them. Serve the king of Babylon and live! Why should this city become a ruin?
  14. Jeremiah 35:7תִּֽחְי֜וּ · you may live
    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.’
  15. Jeremiah 38:2יִחְיֶה · will live; וָחָֽי׃ס · and he will live
    “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.
  16. Jeremiah 38:17וְחָיְתָ֣ה · will live; וְחָיִ֖תָה · will survive
    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.
  17. Jeremiah 38:20וּתְחִ֥י · may live
    “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.
  18. Jeremiah 49:11אֲחַיֶּ֑ה · will preserve their lives
    Abandon your orphans; I will preserve their lives. Let your widows trust in Me.”
  19. Lamentations 4:20נִֽחְיֶ֥ה · we will live
    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.”
  20. Ezekiel 3:18לְחַיֹּת֑וֹ · to save his life
    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.
  21. Ezekiel 3:21חָי֤וֹ · he will indeed live; יִֽחְיֶה֙
    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.”
  22. Ezekiel 13:18תְחַיֶּֽינָה׃
    …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?
  23. Ezekiel 13:19וּלְחַיּ֥וֹת · and spared; תִֽחְיֶ֑ינָה · have lived
    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.
  24. Ezekiel 13:22לְהַחֲיֹתֽוֹ׃ · to save their lives
    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,
  25. Ezekiel 16:6חֲיִ֔י · Live; חֲיִֽי׃ · Live
    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!’
  26. Ezekiel 18:9חָיֹ֣ה · surely he will live; יִֽחְיֶ֔ה
    He follows My statutes and faithfully keeps My ordinances. That man is righteous; surely he will live, declares the Lord GOD.
  27. Ezekiel 18:13וָחָ֑י · Will [this son] live; יִֽחְיֶ֗ה
    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.
  28. Ezekiel 18:17חָיֹ֥ה · He will surely live; יִחְיֶֽה׃
    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.
  29. Ezekiel 18:19חָיֹ֥ה · he will surely live; יִחְיֶֽה׃
    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.
  30. Ezekiel 18:21חָיֹ֥ה · he will surely live; יִחְיֶ֖ה
    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.
  31. Ezekiel 18:22יִֽחְיֶֽה׃ · he will live
    None of the transgressions he has committed will be held against him. Because of the righteousness he has practiced, he will live.
  32. Ezekiel 18:23וְחָיָֽה׃ס · and live
    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?
  33. Ezekiel 18:24וָחָ֑י · will he live
    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.
  34. Ezekiel 18:27יְחַיֶּֽה׃ · will save
    But if a wicked man turns from the wickedness he has committed and does what is just and right, he will save his life.
  35. Ezekiel 18:28חָי֥וֹ · he will surely live; יִחְיֶ֖ה
    Because he considered and turned from all the transgressions he had committed, he will surely live; he will not die.
  36. Ezekiel 18:32וִֽחְיֽוּ׃פ · and live
    For I take no pleasure in anyone’s death, declares the Lord GOD. So repent and live!
  37. Ezekiel 20:11וָחַ֥י · will live
    And I gave them My statutes and made known to them My ordinances—for the man who does these things will live by them.