Michyâh — H4241

Definition

feminine noun

preservation of life; hence, sustenance; also the live flesh, i.e. the quick

1. preservation of life, sustenance
1. preservation of life
2. sustenance
3. reviving
4. the quick of the flesh, live flesh, tender or raw flesh

Usually translated as

quick, reviving, preserve life, sustenance, victuals, recover selves

Origin

from H2421

• Derived from Châyâh (H2421)

Greek equivalents

• peripoíēsis (G4047)
• hypóstasis (G5287)

Occurrences

Michyâh occurs 8 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (1), Leviticus (2), Judges (2), 2 Chronicles (1), Ezra (2)

• Genesis 45:5 — Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life (לְמִֽחְיָ֔ה).
• Leviticus 13:10 — And the priest shall see him: and, behold, if the rising be white in the skin, and it have turned the hair white, and there be quick (וּמִֽחְיַ֛ת) raw flesh in the rising;
• Leviticus 13:24 — Or if there be any flesh, in the skin whereof there is a hot burning, and the quick (מִֽחְיַ֣ת) flesh that burneth have a white bright spot, somewhat reddish, or white;
• Judges 6:4 — And they encamped against them, and destroyed the increase of the earth, till thou come unto Gaza, and left no sustenance (מִֽחְיָה֙) for Israel, neither sheep, nor ox, nor ass.
• Judges 17:10 — And Micah said unto him, Dwell with me, and be unto me a father and a priest, and I will give thee ten shekels of silver by the year, and a suit of apparel, and thy victuals (וּמִחְיָתֶ֑ךָ). So the Levite went in.
• 2 Chronicles 14:13 — And Asa and the people that were with him pursued them unto Gerar: and the Ethiopians were overthrown, that they could not recover (מִֽחְיָ֔ה) themselves; for they were destroyed before the LORD, and before his host; and they carried away very much spoil.
• Ezra 9:8 — And now for a little space grace hath been shewed from the LORD our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a nail in his holy place, that our God may lighten our eyes, and give us a little reviving (מִֽחְיָ֥ה) in our bondage.
• Ezra 9:9 — For we were bondmen; yet our God hath not forsaken us in our bondage, but hath extended mercy unto us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving (מִֽחְיָ֗ה), to set up the house of our God, and to repair the desolations thereof, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.