Recovery
מִחְיָהStrong’s H4241michyah (mich-yah)
Appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Michyah is the Hebrew word usually translated “reviving”, “preservation of life” and “raw spot of”. It appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament.
“Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life.”
Meaning
- Preservation of life, sustenancepreservation of life · sustenance · reviving · the quick of the flesh, live flesh, tender or raw flesh
How it's translated
- reviving 2
- for preservation of life 1
- and a raw spot of 1
- raw spot of 1
- sustenance 1
- and sustenance your 1
- preservation 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 2
- Judges 2
- Ezra 2
- Genesis 1
- 2 Chronicles 1
5 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Leviticus 13:10And the priest shall see him: and, behold, if the rising be white in the skin, and it have turned the hair white, and there be quick raw flesh in the rising;
- Leviticus 13:24Or if there be any flesh, in the skin whereof there is a hot burning, and the quick flesh that burneth have a white bright spot, somewhat reddish, or white;
- Judges 6:4And they encamped against them, and destroyed the increase of the earth, till thou come unto Gaza, and left no sustenance for Israel, neither sheep, nor ox, nor ass.
- Judges 17:10And Micah said unto him, Dwell with me, and be unto me a father and a priest, and I will give thee ten shekels of silver by the year, and a suit of apparel, and thy victuals. So the Levite went in.
- 2 Chronicles 14:13And Asa and the people that were with him pursued them unto Gerar: and the Ethiopians were overthrown, that they could not recover themselves; for they were destroyed before the LORD, and before his host; and they carried away very much spoil.
- Ezra 9:8And now for a little space grace hath been shewed from the LORD our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a nail in his holy place, that our God may lighten our eyes, and give us a little reviving in our bondage.
Hebrew dictionary
מִחְיָה michyah · recovery
1) preservation of life, sustenance 1a) preservation of life 1b) sustenance 1c) reviving 1d) the quick of the flesh, live flesh, tender or raw flesh
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “recovery” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
RECOVERY, noun
- The act of regaining, retaking or obtaining possession of anything lost.
- Restoration from sickness or apparent death.
- The capacity of being restored to health.
- The obtaining of right to something by a verdict and judgment of court from an opposing party in a suit; as the recovery of debt, damages and costs by a plaintiff; the recovery of cost by a defendant; the recovery of land in ejectment.
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.