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חָיָה H2421
châyâh — keep (leave, make) alive, [idiom] certainly, give (promise) life, (let, suffer to) live, nourish up, preserve (alive), quicken, re.... Appears in 241 verses. Full definition →
2 Chronicles 23:11
Then they brought out the king' s son, and put upon him the crown, and gave him the testimony, and made him king. And Jehoiada and his sons anointed him, and said, God save the king.
2 Chronicles 25:25
And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years.
Nehemiah 2:3
And said unto the king, Let the king live forever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' sepulchers, lieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire?
Nehemiah 4:2
And he spake before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What do these feeble Jews? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned?
Nehemiah 5:2
For there were that said, We, our sons, and our daughters, are many: therefore we take up corn for them , that we may eat, and live.
Nehemiah 9:6
Thou, even thou, art LORD alone; thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and thou preservest them all; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee.
Nehemiah 9:29
And testifiedst against them, that thou mightest bring them again unto thy law: yet they dealt proudly, and hearkened not unto thy commandments, but sinned against thy judgments, (which if a man do, he shall live in them;) and withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear.
Esther 4:11
All the king' s servants, and the people of the king' s provinces, do know, that whosoever, whether man or woman, shall come unto the king into the inner court, who is not called, there is one law of his to put him to death, except such to whom the king shall hold out the golden scepter, that he may live: but I have not been called to come in unto the king these thirty days.
Job 7:16
I loathe it ; I would not live always: let me alone; for my days are vanity.
Job 14:14
If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.
Job 21:7
Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?
Job 33:4
The Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life.
Job 36:6
He preserveth not the life of the wicked: but giveth right to the poor.
Job 42:16
After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, even four generations.
Psalms 22:26
The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the LORD that seek him: your heart shall live forever.
Psalms 22:29
All they that be fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul.
Psalms 30:3
O LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.
Psalms 33:19
To deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine.
Psalms 41:2
The LORD will preserve him, and keep him alive; and he shall be blessed upon the earth: and thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of his enemies.
Psalms 49:9
That he should still live forever, and not see corruption.
Psalms 69:32
The humble shall see this, and be glad: and your heart shall live that seek God.
Psalms 71:20
Thou , which hast showed me great and sore troubles, shalt quicken me again, and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth.
Psalms 72:15
And he shall live, and to him shall be given of the gold of Sheba: prayer also shall be made for him continually; and daily shall he be praised.
Psalms 80:18
So will not we go back from thee: quicken us, and we will call upon thy name.
Psalms 85:6
Wilt thou not revive us again: that thy people may rejoice in thee?