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Lexicon :: Strong's H2425 - ḥāyay

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חָיַי
Transliteration
ḥāyay
Pronunciation
khaw-yah'-ee
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root [compare חָיָה (H2421)]
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 644

Variant Spellings

The following spelling is supported by Strongs and Gesenius: חיי.

Strong’s Definitions

חָיַי châyay, khaw-yah'-ee; a primitive root (compare H2421); to live; causatively to revive:—live, save life.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 23x

The KJV translates Strong's H2425 in the following manner: live (21x), life (1x), non translated variant (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 23x
The KJV translates Strong's H2425 in the following manner: live (21x), life (1x), non translated variant (1x).

  1. to live, have life, remain alive, sustain life, live prosperously, live for ever, be quickened, be alive, be restored to life or health

    1. (Qal)

      1. to live

        1. to have life

        2. to continue in life, remain alive

        3. to sustain life, to live on or upon

        4. to live (prosperously)

      2. to revive, be quickened

        1. from sickness

        2. from discouragement

        3. from faintness

        4. from death

    2. (Piel)

      1. to preserve alive, let live

      2. to give life

      3. to quicken, revive, refresh

        1. to restore to life

        2. to cause to grow

        3. to restore

        4. to revive

    3. (Hiph)

      1. to preserve alive, let live

      2. to quicken, revive

        1. to restore (to health)

        2. to revive

        3. to restore to life

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
חָיַי châyay, khaw-yah'-ee; a primitive root (compare H2421); to live; causatively to revive:—live, save life.
STRONGS H2425: Abbreviations
חַי Genesis 5:5 ... וָחָ֑יָה Exodus 1:16
1. live:
a. have life ... Exodus 33:20
†c. ... with בְּ by the statutes and judgments of י׳ if a man do them, Leviticus 18:5 (H) Ezekiel 20:11, 13, 21, 25
†2. be quickened, revive:
a. from sickness Numbers 21:8, 9

This is a portion of the full BDB entry H2421.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2006 by Biblesoft, Inc.
All rights reserved. Used by permission. BibleSoft.com

BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

5:5

Exodus

1:16; 33:20

Leviticus

18:5

Numbers

21:8; 21:9

Ezekiel

20:11; 20:13; 20:21; 20:25

H2425

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H2425 matches the Hebrew חָיַי (ḥāyay),
which occurs 20 times in 20 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 3:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:22 - And the LORD God said, “The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 5:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:5 - Altogether, Adam lived a total of 930 years, and then he died.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 25:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:7 - Abraham lived a hundred and seventy-five years.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 1:16

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:16 - “When you are helping the Hebrew women during childbirth on the delivery stool, if you see that the baby is a boy, kill him; but if it is a girl, let her live.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 33:20

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:20 - But,” he said, “you cannot see my face, for no one may see me and live.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 18:5

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:5 - Keep my decrees and laws, for the person who obeys them will live by them. I am the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 21:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:8 - The LORD said to Moses, “Make a snake and put it up on a pole; anyone who is bitten can look at it and live.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 21:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:9 - So Moses made a bronze snake and put it up on a pole. Then when anyone was bitten by a snake and looked at the bronze snake, they lived.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:42

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:42 - to which anyone who had killed a person could flee if they had unintentionally killed a neighbor without malice aforethought. They could flee into one of these cities and save their life.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 5:24

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:24 - And you said, “The LORD our God has shown us his glory and his majesty, and we have heard his voice from the fire. Today we have seen that a person can live even if God speaks with them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 19:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:4 - This is the rule concerning anyone who kills a person and flees there for safety—anyone who kills a neighbor unintentionally, without malice aforethought.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 19:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:5 - For instance, a man may go into the forest with his neighbor to cut wood, and as he swings his ax to fell a tree, the head may fly off and hit his neighbor and kill him. That man may flee to one of these cities and save his life.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 20:31

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:31 - As long as the son of Jesse lives on this earth, neither you nor your kingdom will be established. Now send someone to bring him to me, for he must die!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 6:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:11 - But I said, “Should a man like me run away? Or should someone like me go into the temple to save his life? I will not go!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 18:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:13 - He lends at interest and takes a profit. Will such a man live? He will not! Because he has done all these detestable things, he is to be put to death; his blood will be on his own head.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 18:24

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:24 - “But if a righteous person turns from their righteousness and commits sin and does the same detestable things the wicked person does, will they live? None of the righteous things that person has done will be remembered. Because of the unfaithfulness they are guilty of and because of the sins they have committed, they will die.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 20:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:11 - I gave them my decrees and made known to them my laws, by which the person who obeys them will live.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 20:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:13 - “ ‘Yet the people of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness. They did not follow my decrees but rejected my laws—by which the person who obeys them will live—and they utterly desecrated my Sabbaths. So I said I would pour out my wrath on them and destroy them in the wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 20:21

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:21 - “ ‘But the children rebelled against me: They did not follow my decrees, they were not careful to keep my laws, of which I said, “The person who obeys them will live by them,” and they desecrated my Sabbaths. So I said I would pour out my wrath on them and spend my anger against them in the wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 47:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:9 - Swarms of living creatures will live wherever the river flows. There will be large numbers of fish, because this water flows there and makes the salt water fresh; so where the river flows everything will live.
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