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H2421חָיָהcha.yah

to livePart of speech: Hebrew Verb

Show inJPS Tanakh 1917

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Occurrences by book

  1. 59
  2. 7
  3. 3
  4. 8
  5. 18
  6. 8
  7. 3
  8. Ruth: 0
  9. 4
  10. 6
  11. 8
  12. 22
  13. 1
  14. 2
  15. Ezra: 0
  16. 6
  17. 1
  18. 6
  19. 31
  20. 4
  21. 4
  22. Song of Songs: 0
  23. 11
  24. 10
  25. 1
  26. 48
  27. Daniel: 0
  28. 3
  29. Joel: 0
  30. 3
  31. Obadiah: 0
  32. Jonah: 0
  33. Micah: 0
  34. Nahum: 0
  35. 2
  36. Zephaniah: 0
  37. Haggai: 0
  38. 3
  39. Malachi: 0

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282 occurrences in 257 verses

With their references and text in JPS Tanakh 1917.

  1. Amos 5:6

    Seek the LORD, and live--lest He break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and it devour, and there be none to quench it in Bethel--

    וִֽחְי֑וּ (חְי֑וּ) ch.Yu “live”

  2. Amos 5:14

    Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live; and so the LORD, the God of hosts, will be with you, as ye say.

    תִּֽחְי֑וּ tich.Yu “you will live”

  3. Habakkuk 2:4

    Behold, his soul is puffed up, it is not upright in him; but the righteous shall live by his faith.

    יִחְיֶֽה׃ yich.Yeh “he will live”

  4. Habakkuk 3:2

    O LORD, I have heard the report of Thee, and am afraid; O LORD, revive Thy work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make it known; in wrath remember compassion.

    חַיֵּ֔יהוּ (חַיֵּ֔י) chai.Yei. “restore”

  5. Zechariah 1:5

    Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?

    יִֽחְיֽוּ׃ Yich.Yu “do they live”

  6. Zechariah 10:9

    And I will sow them among the peoples, and they shall remember Me in far countries; and they shall live with their children, and shall return.

    וְחָי֥וּ (חָי֥וּ) cha.Yu “they will live”

  7. Zechariah 13:3

    And it shall come to pass that, when any shall yet prophesy, then his father and his mother that begot him shall say unto him: 'Thou shalt not live, for thou speakest lies in the name of the LORD'; and his father and his mother that begot him shall thrus

    תִֽחְיֶ֔ה tich.Yeh “you will live”