H2421: חָיָה
châyâh · pronounced khaw-yaw' · “to live”
Definition
to live, whether literally or figuratively; causatively, to revive
KJV translates it as: keep (leave, make) alive, [idiom] certainly, give (promise) life, (let, suffer to) live, nourish up, preserve (alive), quicken, recover, repair, restore (to life), revive, ([idiom] God) save (alive, life, lives), [idiom] surely, be whole.
Word origin: a primitive root (compare H2331 (חָוָה), H2421 (חָיָה));
Extended definition
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to live
1a1a) to have life
1a1b) to continue in life, remain alive
1a1c) to sustain life, to live on or upon
1a1d) to live (prosperously)
1a2) to revive, be quickened
1a2a) from sickness
1a2b) from discouragement
1a2c) from faintness
1a2d) from death
1b) (Piel)
1b1) to preserve alive, let live
1b2) to give life
1b3) to quicken, revive, refresh
1b3a) to restore to life
1b3b) to cause to grow
1b3c) to restore
1b3d) to revive
1c) (Hiphil)
1c1) to preserve alive, let live
1c2) to quicken, revive
1c2a) to restore (to health)
1c2b) to revive
1c2c) to restore to life
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H2421 is translated
- he lived ×47
- he will live ×42
- me ×17
- live ×14
- you will live ×14
- may he live ×11
- certainly live ×9
- preserve alive ×6
- us ×6
- they will live ×6
- we may live ×5
- it will live ×4
Bible verses with H2421 (châyâh)
Châyâh appears in 257 verses; the first 25 are shown below.
- Genesis 3:22
And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:
- Genesis 5:3
And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:
- Genesis 5:5
And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.
- Genesis 5:6
And Seth lived an hundred and five years, and begat Enos:
- Genesis 5:7
And Seth lived after he begat Enos eight hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters:
- Genesis 5:9
And Enos lived ninety years, and begat Cainan:
- Genesis 5:10
And Enos lived after he begat Cainan eight hundred and fifteen years, and begat sons and daughters:
- Genesis 5:12
And Cainan lived seventy years, and begat Mahalaleel:
- Genesis 5:13
And Cainan lived after he begat Mahalaleel eight hundred and forty years, and begat sons and daughters:
- Genesis 5:15
And Mahalaleel lived sixty and five years, and begat Jared:
- Genesis 5:16
And Mahalaleel lived after he begat Jared eight hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters:
- Genesis 5:18
And Jared lived an hundred sixty and two years, and he begat Enoch:
- Genesis 5:19
And Jared lived after he begat Enoch eight hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:
- Genesis 5:21
And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah:
- Genesis 5:25
And Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech:
- Genesis 5:26
And Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters:
- Genesis 5:28
And Lamech lived an hundred eighty and two years, and begat a son:
- Genesis 5:30
And Lamech lived after he begat Noah five hundred ninety and five years, and begat sons and daughters:
- Genesis 6:19
And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female.
- Genesis 6:20
Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive.
- Genesis 7:3
Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.
- Genesis 9:28
And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.
- Genesis 11:11
And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.
- Genesis 11:12
And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah:
- Genesis 11:13
And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.
All 257 references
- Genesis 11:14
- Genesis 11:15
- Genesis 11:16
- Genesis 11:17
- Genesis 11:18
- Genesis 11:19
- Genesis 11:20
- Genesis 11:21
- Genesis 11:22
- Genesis 11:23
- Genesis 11:24
- Genesis 11:25
- Genesis 11:26
- Genesis 12:12
- Genesis 12:13
- Genesis 17:18
- Genesis 19:19
- Genesis 19:20
- Genesis 19:32
- Genesis 19:34
- Genesis 20:7
- Genesis 25:7
- Genesis 27:40
- Genesis 31:32
- Genesis 42:2
- Genesis 42:18
- Genesis 43:8
- Genesis 45:7
- Genesis 45:27
- Genesis 47:19
- Genesis 47:25
- Genesis 47:28
- Genesis 50:20
- Genesis 50:22
- Exodus 1:16
- Exodus 1:17
- Exodus 1:18
- Exodus 1:22
- Exodus 19:13
- Exodus 22:18
- Exodus 33:20
- Leviticus 18:5
- Leviticus 25:35
- Leviticus 25:36
- Numbers 4:19
- Numbers 14:38
- Numbers 21:8
- Numbers 21:9
- Numbers 22:33
- Numbers 24:23
- Numbers 31:15
- Numbers 31:18
- Deuteronomy 4:1
- Deuteronomy 4:33
- Deuteronomy 4:42
- Deuteronomy 5:24
- Deuteronomy 5:26
- Deuteronomy 5:33
- Deuteronomy 6:24
- Deuteronomy 8:1
- Deuteronomy 8:3
- Deuteronomy 16:20
- Deuteronomy 19:4
- Deuteronomy 19:5
- Deuteronomy 20:16
- Deuteronomy 30:16
- Deuteronomy 30:19
- Deuteronomy 32:39
- Deuteronomy 33:6
- Joshua 2:13
- Joshua 5:8
- Joshua 6:17
- Joshua 6:25
- Joshua 9:15
- Joshua 9:20
- Joshua 9:21
- Joshua 14:10
- Judges 8:19
- Judges 15:19
- Judges 21:14
- 1 Samuel 2:6
- 1 Samuel 10:24
- 1 Samuel 27:9
- 1 Samuel 27:11
- 2 Samuel 1:10
- 2 Samuel 8:2
- 2 Samuel 12:3
- 2 Samuel 12:22
- 2 Samuel 16:16
- 1 Kings 1:25
- 1 Kings 1:31
- 1 Kings 1:34
- 1 Kings 1:39
- 1 Kings 17:22
- 1 Kings 18:5
- 1 Kings 20:31
- 1 Kings 20:32
- 2 Kings 1:2
- 2 Kings 4:7
- 2 Kings 5:7
- 2 Kings 7:4
- 2 Kings 8:1
- 2 Kings 8:5
- 2 Kings 8:8
- 2 Kings 8:9
- 2 Kings 8:10
- 2 Kings 8:14
- 2 Kings 10:19
- 2 Kings 11:12
- 2 Kings 13:21
- 2 Kings 14:17
- 2 Kings 18:32
- 2 Kings 20:1
- 2 Kings 20:7
- 1 Chronicles 11:8
- 2 Chronicles 23:11
- 2 Chronicles 25:25
- Nehemiah 2:3
- Nehemiah 4:2
- Nehemiah 5:2
- Nehemiah 6:11
- Nehemiah 9:6
- Nehemiah 9:29
- Esther 4:11
- Job 7:16
- Job 14:14
- Job 21:7
- Job 33:4
- Job 36:6
- Job 42:16
- Psalms 22:26
- Psalms 22:29
- Psalms 30:3
- Psalms 33:19
- Psalms 41:2
- Psalms 49:9
- Psalms 69:32
- Psalms 71:20
- Psalms 72:15
- Psalms 80:18
- Psalms 85:6
- Psalms 89:48
- Psalms 118:17
- Psalms 119:17
- Psalms 119:25
- Psalms 119:37
- Psalms 119:40
- Psalms 119:50
- Psalms 119:77
- Psalms 119:88
- Psalms 119:93
- Psalms 119:107
- Psalms 119:116
- Psalms 119:144
- Psalms 119:149
- Psalms 119:154
- Psalms 119:156
- Psalms 119:159
- Psalms 119:175
- Psalms 138:7
- Psalms 143:11
- Proverbs 4:4
- Proverbs 7:2
- Proverbs 9:6
- Proverbs 15:27
- Ecclesiastes 6:3
- Ecclesiastes 6:6
- Ecclesiastes 7:12
- Ecclesiastes 11:8
- Isaiah 7:21
- Isaiah 26:14
- Isaiah 26:19
- Isaiah 38:1
- Isaiah 38:9
- Isaiah 38:16
- Isaiah 38:21
- Isaiah 55:3
- Isaiah 57:15
- Jeremiah 21:9
- Jeremiah 27:12
- Jeremiah 27:17
- Jeremiah 35:7
- Jeremiah 38:2
- Jeremiah 38:17
- Jeremiah 38:20
- Jeremiah 49:11
- Lamentations 4:20
- Ezekiel 3:18
- Ezekiel 3:21
- Ezekiel 13:18
- Ezekiel 13:19
- Ezekiel 13:22
- Ezekiel 16:6
- Ezekiel 18:9
- Ezekiel 18:13
- Ezekiel 18:17
- Ezekiel 18:19
- Ezekiel 18:21
- Ezekiel 18:22
- Ezekiel 18:23
- Ezekiel 18:24
- Ezekiel 18:27
- Ezekiel 18:28
- Ezekiel 18:32
- Ezekiel 20:11
- Ezekiel 20:13
- Ezekiel 20:21
- Ezekiel 20:25
- Ezekiel 33:10
- Ezekiel 33:11
- Ezekiel 33:12
- Ezekiel 33:13
- Ezekiel 33:15
- Ezekiel 33:16
- Ezekiel 33:19
- Ezekiel 37:3
- Ezekiel 37:5
- Ezekiel 37:6
- Ezekiel 37:9
- Ezekiel 37:10
- Ezekiel 37:14
- Ezekiel 47:9
- Hosea 6:2
- Hosea 14:7
- Amos 5:4
- Amos 5:6
- Amos 5:14
- Habakkuk 2:4
- Habakkuk 3:2
- Zechariah 1:5
- Zechariah 10:9
- Zechariah 13:3