חָיָה
châyâh · khaw-yaw'
to live, whether literally or figuratively; causatively, to revive
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root (compare H2331 (חָוָה), H2421 (חָיָה));
to live, whether literally or figuratively; causatively, to revive
- to live, whether literally or figuratively
- causatively, to revive
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: 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.
Letters
- חHet8
Picture: courtyard wall or enclosure
- Concrete
- wall · fence · tent wall
- Extended
- to separate · protection · the inside vs. the outside · private
- יYod10
Picture: arm and closed hand
- Concrete
- hand · arm · work
- Extended
- a deed · to make · to work · to throw or worship
- הHe5
Picture: a person with both arms raised
- Concrete
- a man calling out · a window · breath
- Extended
- behold! · revelation · to reveal · the (definite article)
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to separate and protect › the hand that works › to reveal, behold
To separate and protect of the hand that works that works to reveal, behold.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of חָיָה above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
282 occurrences · 282 OT · 0 NT · 185 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- lived36 · 24%
- live19 · 13%
- shall live12 · 8%
- alive12 · 8%
- and live11 · 7%
- quicken8 · 5%
- god save8 · 5%
- he shall surely7 · 5%
- that ye may live4 · 3%
- he shall live3 · 2%
- to save2 · 1%
- and not live2 · 1%
- that we may live2 · 1%
- to live2 · 1%
- and thou shalt live2 · 1%
- recover2 · 1%
- shall i recover2 · 1%
- he had restored to life2 · 1%
- we shall live2 · 1%
- and he revived2 · 1%
- saved2 · 1%
- he shall not live2 · 1%
- that thou mayest live2 · 1%
- that i may live2 · 1%
- with him, that we may preserve2 · 1%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.