Strong's H2421

חָיָה

Transliteration

châyâh

Pronunciation

khaw-yaw'

Definition

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

KJV usage

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.

Derivation

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

From Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890), Hebrew dictionary. Data: Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA.