Usually translated as
live, alive, quicken, life, save, recover, revive, preserve, keep, certainly, give, nourish up, repair, restore, surely, be whole
Occurrences
Châyâh occurs 264 times in 241 verses of the King James.
Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (54), Exodus (5), Leviticus (2), Numbers (6), Deuteronomy (13), Joshua (8), Judges (3), 1 Samuel (4), 2 Samuel (4), 1 Kings (8), 2 Kings (17), 1 Chronicles (1), 2 Chronicles (2), Nehemiah (5), Esther (1), Job (6), Psalms (31), Proverbs (4), Ecclesiastes (4), Isaiah (9), Jeremiah (8), Lamentations (1), Ezekiel (35), Hosea (2), Amos (3), Habakkuk (2), Zechariah (3)
- Genesis 5:3 — And Adam lived (וַֽיְחִ֣י) an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:
- Genesis 5:6 — And Seth lived (וַֽיְחִי) an hundred and five years, and begat Enos:
- Genesis 5:7 — And Seth lived (וַֽיְחִי) after he begat Enos eight hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters:
- Genesis 5:9 — And Enos lived (וַֽיְחִ֥י) ninety years, and begat Cainan:
- Genesis 5:10 — And Enos lived (וַֽיְחִ֣י) after he begat Cainan eight hundred and fifteen years, and begat sons and daughters:
- Genesis 5:12 — And Cainan lived (וַֽיְחִ֥י) seventy years, and begat Mahalaleel:
- Genesis 5:13 — And Cainan lived (וַיְחִ֣י) after he begat Mahalaleel eight hundred and forty years, and begat sons and daughters:
- Genesis 5:15 — And Mahalaleel lived (וַֽיְחִ֣י) sixty and five years, and begat Jared:
- Genesis 5:16 — And Mahalaleel lived (וַֽיְחִ֣י) after he begat Jared eight hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters:
- Genesis 5:18 — And Jared lived (וַֽיְחִי) an hundred sixty and two years, and he begat Enoch:
- Genesis 5:19 — And Jared lived (וַֽיְחִי) after he begat Enoch eight hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:
- Genesis 5:21 — And Enoch lived (וַֽיְחִ֣י) sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah:
- Genesis 5:25 — And Methuselah lived (וַיְחִ֣י) an hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech:
- Genesis 5:26 — And Methuselah lived (וַֽיְחִ֣י) after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters:
- Genesis 5:28 — And Lamech lived (וַֽיְחִי) an hundred eighty and two years, and begat a son:
- Genesis 5:30 — And Lamech lived (וַֽיְחִי) 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 (לְהַחֲיֹ֣ת) 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 (לְהַֽחֲיֽוֹת).
- Genesis 7:3 — Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive (לְחַיּ֥וֹת) upon the face of all the earth.
- Genesis 9:28 — And Noah lived (וַֽיְחִי) after the flood three hundred and fifty years.
- Genesis 11:11 — And Shem lived (וַֽיְחִי) after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.
- Genesis 11:13 — And Arphaxad lived (וַֽיְחִ֣י) after he begat Salah four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.
- Genesis 11:15 — And Salah lived (וַֽיְחִי) after he begat Eber four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.
- Genesis 11:16 — And Eber lived (וַֽיְחִי) four and thirty years, and begat Peleg:
- Genesis 11:17 — And Eber lived (וַֽיְחִי) after he begat Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters.
- Genesis 11:18 — And Peleg lived (וַֽיְחִי) thirty years, and begat Reu:
- Genesis 11:19 — And Peleg lived (וַֽיְחִי) after he begat Reu two hundred and nine years, and begat sons and daughters.
- Genesis 11:20 — And Reu lived (וַיְחִ֣י) two and thirty years, and begat Serug:
- Genesis 11:21 — And Reu lived (וַיְחִ֣י) after he begat Serug two hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters.
- Genesis 11:22 — And Serug lived (וַיְחִ֥י) thirty years, and begat Nahor:
- Genesis 11:23 — And Serug lived (וַיְחִ֣י) after he begat Nahor two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.
- Genesis 11:24 — And Nahor lived (וַיְחִ֣י) nine and twenty years, and begat Terah:
- Genesis 11:25 — And Nahor lived (וַיְחִ֣י) after he begat Terah an hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters.
- Genesis 11:26 — And Terah lived (וַֽיְחִי) seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
- Genesis 12:12 — Therefore it shall come to pass, when the Egyptians shall see thee, that they shall say, This is his wife: and they will kill me, but they will save thee alive (יְחַיּֽוּ).
- Genesis 12:13 — Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister: that it may be well with me for thy sake; and my soul shall live (וְחָיְתָ֥ה) because of thee.
- Genesis 17:18 — And Abraham said unto God, O that Ishmael might live (יִחְיֶ֥ה) before thee!
- Genesis 19:19 — Behold now, thy servant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewed unto me in saving (לְהַחֲי֖וֹת) my life; and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil take me, and I die:
- Genesis 19:20 — Behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one: Oh, let me escape thither, (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live (וּתְחִ֥י).
- Genesis 19:32 — Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve (וּנְחַיֶּ֥ה) seed of our father.
- Genesis 19:34 — And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve (וּנְחַיֶּ֥ה) seed of our father.
- Genesis 20:7 — Now therefore restore the man his wife; for he is a prophet, and he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live (וֶֽחְיֵ֑ה): and if thou restore her not, know thou that thou shalt surely die, thou, and all that are thine.
- Genesis 27:40 — And by thy sword shalt thou live (תִֽחְיֶ֔ה), and shalt serve thy brother; and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion, that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck.
- Genesis 31:32 — With whomsoever thou findest thy gods, let him not live (יִֽחְיֶה֒): before our brethren discern thou what is thine with me, and take it to thee. For Jacob knew not that Rachel had stolen them.
- Genesis 42:2 — And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt: get you down thither, and buy for us from thence; that we may live (וְנִחְיֶ֖ה), and not die.
- Genesis 42:18 — And Joseph said unto them the third day, This do, and live (וִֽחְי֑וּ); for I fear God:
- Genesis 43:8 — And Judah said unto Israel his father, Send the lad with me, and we will arise and go; that we may live (וְנִֽחְיֶה֙), and not die, both we, and thou, and also our little ones.
- Genesis 45:7 — And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives (וּלְהַחֲי֣וֹת) by a great deliverance.
- Genesis 45:27 — And they told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said unto them: and when he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob their father revived (וַתְּחִ֕י):
- Genesis 47:19 — Wherefore shall we die before thine eyes, both we and our land? buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants unto Pharaoh: and give us seed, that we may live (וְנִֽחְיֶה֙), and not die, that the land be not desolate.