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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 - Then the LORD God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, to know good and evil. And now, lest he put out his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever”—

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 5:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:5 - So all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years; and he died.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 25:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:7 - This is the sum of the years of Abraham’s life which he lived: one hundred and seventy-five years.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 1:16

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:16 - and he said, “When you do the duties of a midwife for the Hebrew women, and see them on the birthstools, if it is a son, then you shall kill him; but if it is a daughter, then she shall 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 man shall see Me, and live.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 18:5

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:5 - ‘You shall therefore keep My statutes and My judgments, which if a man does, he shall live by them: I am the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 21:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:8 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “Make a fiery serpent, and set it on a pole; and it shall be that everyone who is bitten, when he looks at it, shall live.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 21:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:9 - So Moses made a bronze serpent, and put it on a pole; and so it was, if a serpent had bitten anyone, when he looked at the bronze serpent, he lived.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:42

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:42 - that the manslayer might flee there, who kills his neighbor unintentionally, without having hated him in time past, and that by fleeing to one of these cities he might live:

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 5:24

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:24 - “And you said: ‘Surely the LORD our God has shown us His glory and His greatness, and we have heard His voice from the midst of the fire. We have seen this day that God speaks with man; yet he still lives.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 19:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:4 - “And this is the case of the manslayer who flees there, that he may live: Whoever kills his neighbor unintentionally, not having hated him in time past—

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 19:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:5 - “as when a man goes to the woods with his neighbor to cut timber, and his hand swings a stroke with the ax to cut down the tree, and the head slips from the handle and strikes his neighbor so that he dies—he shall flee to one of these cities and live;

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 20:31

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:31 - “For as long as the son of Jesse lives on the earth, you shall not be established, nor your kingdom. Now therefore, send and bring him to me, for he shall surely die.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 6:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:11 - And I said, “Should such a man as I flee? And who is there such as I who would go into the temple to save his life? I will not go in!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 18:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:13 - If he has exacted usury
Or taken increase—
Shall he then live?
He shall not live!
If he has done any of these abominations,
He shall surely die;
His blood shall be upon him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 18:24

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:24 - “But when a righteous man turns away from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and does according to all the abominations that the wicked man does, shall he live? All the righteousness which he has done shall not be remembered; because of the unfaithfulness of which he is guilty and the sin which he has committed, because of them he shall die.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 20:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:11 - “And I gave them My statutes and showed them My judgments, ‘which, if a man does, he shall live by them.’[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 20:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:13 - “Yet the house of Israel rebelled against Me in the wilderness; they did not walk in My statutes; they despised My judgments, ‘which, if a man does, he shall live by them’;[fn] and they greatly defiled My Sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out My fury on them in the wilderness, to consume them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 20:21

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:21 - “Notwithstanding, the children rebelled against Me; they did not walk in My statutes, and were not careful to observe My judgments, ‘which, if a man does, he shall live by them’;[fn] but they profaned My Sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out My fury on them and fulfill My anger against them in the wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 47:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:9 - “And it shall be that every living thing that moves, wherever the rivers go, will live. There will be a very great multitude of fish, because these waters go there; for they will be healed, and everything will live wherever the river goes.
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