Cloud of WitnessesBeta
3 witnesses

Strong’s H2421 · Hebrew

חָיָה

châyâh · khaw-yaw'

Origin a primitive root (compare חָוָה (H2331), חָיָה (H2421));

Meaning to live, whether literally or figuratively; causatively, to revive

In the King James Version 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.

In 235 verses of the King James Version

151–200 of 235

  1. Psalms 119:17GIMEL. Deal bountifully with thy servant, that I may live, and keep thy word.
  2. Psalms 119:25DALETH. My soul cleaveth unto the dust: quicken thou me according to thy word.
  3. Psalms 119:37Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken thou me in thy way.
  4. Psalms 119:40Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy righteousness.
  5. Psalms 119:50This is my comfort in my affliction: for thy word hath quickened me.
  6. Psalms 119:77Let thy tender mercies come unto me, that I may live: for thy law is my delight.
  7. Psalms 119:88Quicken me after thy lovingkindness; so shall I keep the testimony of thy mouth.
  8. Psalms 119:93I will never forget thy precepts: for with them thou hast quickened me.
  9. Psalms 119:107I am afflicted very much: quicken me, O LORD, according unto thy word.
  10. Psalms 119:116Uphold me according unto thy word, that I may live: and let me not be ashamed of my hope.
  11. Psalms 119:144The righteousness of thy testimonies is everlasting: give me understanding, and I shall live.
  12. Psalms 119:149Hear my voice according unto thy lovingkindness: O LORD, quicken me according to thy judgment.
  13. Psalms 119:154Plead my cause, and deliver me: quicken me according to thy word.
  14. Psalms 119:156Great are thy tender mercies, O LORD: quicken me according to thy judgments.
  15. Psalms 119:159Consider how I love thy precepts: quicken me, O LORD, according to thy lovingkindness.
  16. Psalms 119:175Let my soul live, and it shall praise thee; and let thy judgments help me.
  17. Psalms 138:7Though I walk in the midst of trouble, thou wilt revive me: thou shalt stretch forth thine hand against the wrath of mine enemies, and thy right hand shall save me.
  18. Psalms 143:11Quicken me, O LORD, for thy name’s sake: for thy righteousness’ sake bring my soul out of trouble.
  19. Proverbs 4:4He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live.
  20. Proverbs 7:2Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.
  21. Proverbs 9:6Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.
  22. Proverbs 15:27He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house; but he that hateth gifts shall live.
  23. Ecclesiastes 6:3If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.
  24. Ecclesiastes 6:6Yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one place?
  25. Ecclesiastes 7:12For wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it.
  26. Ecclesiastes 11:8But if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many. All that cometh is vanity.
  27. Isaiah 7:21And it shall come to pass in that day, that a man shall nourish a young cow, and two sheep;
  28. Isaiah 26:14They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish.
  29. Isaiah 26:19Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
  30. Isaiah 38:1In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came unto him, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Set thine house in order: for thou shalt die, and not live.
  31. Isaiah 38:9The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness:
  32. Isaiah 38:16O Lord, by these things men live, and in all these things is the life of my spirit: so wilt thou recover me, and make me to live.
  33. Isaiah 38:21For Isaiah had said, Let them take a lump of figs, and lay it for a plaister upon the boil, and he shall recover.
  34. Isaiah 55:3Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.
  35. Isaiah 57:15For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.
  36. Jeremiah 21:9He that abideth in this city shall die by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he that goeth out, and falleth to the Chaldeans that besiege you, he shall live, and his life shall be unto him for a prey.
  37. Jeremiah 27:12I spake also to Zedekiah king of Judah according to all these words, saying, Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him and his people, and live.
  38. Jeremiah 27:17Hearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: wherefore should this city be laid waste?
  39. Jeremiah 35:7Neither shall ye build house, nor sow seed, nor plant vineyard, nor have any: but all your days ye shall dwell in tents; that ye may live many days in the land where ye be strangers.
  40. Jeremiah 38:2Thus saith the LORD, He that remaineth in this city shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he that goeth forth to the Chaldeans shall live; for he shall have his life for a prey, and shall live.
  41. Jeremiah 38:17Then said Jeremiah unto Zedekiah, Thus saith the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of Israel; If thou wilt assuredly go forth unto the king of Babylon’s princes, then thy soul shall live, and this city shall not be burned with fire; and thou shalt live, and thine house:
  42. Jeremiah 38:20But Jeremiah said, They shall not deliver thee. Obey, I beseech thee, the voice of the LORD, which I speak unto thee: so it shall be well unto thee, and thy soul shall live.
  43. Jeremiah 49:11Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.
  44. Lamentations 4:20The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the LORD, was taken in their pits, of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the heathen.
  45. Ezekiel 3:18When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
  46. Ezekiel 3:21Nevertheless if thou warn the righteous man, that the righteous sin not, and he doth not sin, he shall surely live, because he is warned; also thou hast delivered thy soul.
  47. Ezekiel 13:18And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the women that sew pillows to all armholes, and make kerchiefs upon the head of every stature to hunt souls! Will ye hunt the souls of my people, and will ye save the souls alive that come unto you?
  48. Ezekiel 13:19And will ye pollute me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to slay the souls that should not die, and to save the souls alive that should not live, by your lying to my people that hear your lies?
  49. Ezekiel 13:22Because with lies ye have made the heart of the righteous sad, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, by promising him life:
  50. Ezekiel 16:6And when I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted in thine own blood, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live; yea, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live.

From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.

חָיָה (H2421) · Strong’s · Cloud of Witnesses