To live
חָיַיStrong’s H2425chayay (cha-yay)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Chayay is the Hebrew word usually translated “lives”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“For as long as the son of Jesse liveth upon the ground, thou shalt not be established, nor thy kingdom. Wherefore now send and fetch him unto me, for he shall surely die.”
Meaning
- To live, have life, remain alive, sustain life, live prosperously, live for ever, be quickened, be alive, be restored to life or health(Qal) · (Piel) · (Hiph)
How it's translated
- he lives 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Samuel 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
חָיַי chayay · to live
1) to live, have life, remain alive, sustain life, live prosperously, live for ever, be quickened, be alive, be restored to life or health 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to live 1a1a) to have life 1a1b) to continue in life, remain alive 1a1c) to sustain life, to live on or upon 1a1d) to live (prosperously) 1a2) to revive, be quickened 1a2a) from sickness 1a2b) from discouragement 1a2c) from faintness 1a2d) from death 1b) (Piel) 1b1) to preserve alive, let live 1b2) to give life 1b3) to quicken, revive, refresh 1b3a) to restore to life 1b3b) to cause to grow 1b3c) to restore 1b3d) to revive 1c) (Hiph) …
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “live” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
LIVE, verb intransitive
liv.
- To abide; to dwell; to have settled residence in any place.
- To continue; to be permanent; not to perish.
- To be animated; to have the vital principle; to have the bodily functions in operation, or in a capacity to operate, as respiration, circulation of blood, secretions, etc.; applied to animals.“I am Joseph; doth my father yet live?” Genesis 45:3
- To have the principles of vegetable life; to be in a state in which the organs do or may perform their functions in the circulation of sap and in growth; applied to plants.
All definitions and other forms of “live”
- To pass life or time in a particular manner, with regard to habits or condition.
- To continue in life.
- To live emphatically; to enjoy life; to be in a state of happiness.
- To feed; to subsist; to be nourished and supported in life; as, horses live on grass or grain; fowls live on seeds or insects; some kinds of fish live on others; carnivorous animals live on flesh.
- To subsist; to be maintained in life; to be supported.
- To remain undestroyed; to float; not to sink or founder.
- To exist; to have being.“As I live saith the Lord -” Ezekiel 5:11
- In Scripture, to be exempt from death, temporal or spiritual.“Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and judgments, which if a man do, he shall live in them” Leviticus 18:5
- To recover from sickness; to have life prolonged.“Thy son liveth” John 4:50
- To be inwardly quickened, nourished and actuated by divine influence or faith. Galatians 2:14
- To be greatly refreshed, comforted and animated.“For now we live if ye stand fast in the Lord” 1 Thessalonians 3:8
- To appear as in life or reality; to be manifest in real character.
- To live with, to dwell or to be a lodger with.
- To cohabit; to have intercourse, as male and female.
LIVE, verb transitive
liv.
- To continue in constantly or habitually; as, to live a life of ease.
- To act habitually in conformity to.
LIVE, adjective
- Having life; having respiration and other organic functions in operation, or in a capacity to operate; not dead; as a live ox.
- Having vegetable life; as a live plant.
- Containing fire; ignited; not extinct; as a live coal.
- Vivid, as color.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.