Strong's H2421
חָיָה
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- Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament)
Definition
to live, whether literally or figuratively; causatively, to revive
Derivation
a primitive root (compare H2331 (חָוָה), H2421 (חָיָה));
KJV Translation
In the King James Version, חָיָה is translated as: 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..
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance, compiled by James Strong in 1890, assigns a unique number to every Hebrew and Aramaic root word in the Old Testament. The Hebrew dictionary covers all 8,674 root words. This entry is in the public domain.