# חָיָה (chayah)

Israeli respelling: cha-yah. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H2421. 239 Old Testament occurrences.

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

King James renderings: 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.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/chayah-h2421

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 5:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/5/3) — And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:
- [Genesis 5:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/5/6) — And Seth lived an hundred and five years, and begat Enos:
- [Genesis 5:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/5/7) — And Seth lived after he begat Enos eight hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters:
- [Genesis 5:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/5/9) — And Enos lived ninety years, and begat Cainan:
- [Genesis 5:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/5/10) — And Enos lived after he begat Cainan eight hundred and fifteen years, and begat sons and daughters:
- [Genesis 5:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/5/12) — And Cainan lived seventy years, and begat Mahalaleel:
- [Genesis 5:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/5/13) — And Cainan lived after he begat Mahalaleel eight hundred and forty years, and begat sons and daughters:
- [Genesis 5:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/5/15) — And Mahalaleel lived sixty and five years, and begat Jared:
- [Genesis 5:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/5/16) — And Mahalaleel lived after he begat Jared eight hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters:
- [Genesis 5:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/5/18) — And Jared lived an hundred sixty and two years, and he begat Enoch:
- [Genesis 5:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/5/19) — And Jared lived after he begat Enoch eight hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:
- [Genesis 5:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/5/21) — And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah:
- [Genesis 5:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/5/25) — And Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech:
- [Genesis 5:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/5/26) — And Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters:
- [Genesis 5:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/5/28) — And Lamech lived an hundred eighty and two years, and begat a son:
- [Genesis 5:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/5/30) — And Lamech lived after he begat Noah five hundred ninety and five years, and begat sons and daughters:
- [Genesis 6:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/6/19) — And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male a…
- [Genesis 6:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/6/20) — Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every sort shall com…
- [Genesis 7:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/7/3) — Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.
- [Genesis 9:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/9/28) — And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.
- [Genesis 11:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/11/11) — And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.
- [Genesis 11:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/11/12) — And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah:
- [Genesis 11:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/11/13) — And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.
- [Genesis 11:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/11/14) — And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber:
- [Genesis 11:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/11/15) — And Salah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.
- [Genesis 11:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/11/16) — And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg:
- [Genesis 11:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/11/17) — And Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters.
- [Genesis 11:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/11/18) — And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu:
- [Genesis 11:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/11/19) — And Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred and nine years, and begat sons and daughters.
- [Genesis 11:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/11/20) — And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug:
- [Genesis 11:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/11/21) — And Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters.
- [Genesis 11:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/11/22) — And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor:
- [Genesis 11:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/11/23) — And Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.
- [Genesis 11:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/11/24) — And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah:
- [Genesis 11:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/11/25) — And Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters.
- [Genesis 11:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/11/26) — And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
- [Genesis 12:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/12/12) — Therefore it shall come to pass, when the Egyptians shall see thee, that they shall say, This is his wife: and they will kill me, but they…
- [Genesis 12:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/12/13) — Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister: that it may be well with me for thy sake; and my soul shall live because of thee.
- [Genesis 17:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/17/18) — And Abraham said unto God, O that Ishmael might live before thee!
- [Genesis 19:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/19/19) — Behold now, thy servant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewed unto me in saving my life;…
- [Genesis 19:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/19/20) — Behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one: Oh, let me escape thither, (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall…
- [Genesis 19:32](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/19/32) — Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
- [Genesis 19:34](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/19/34) — And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us make him drin…
- [Genesis 20:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/20/7) — Now therefore restore the man his wife; for he is a prophet, and he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live: and if thou restore her not,…
- [Genesis 27:40](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/27/40) — And by thy sword shalt thou live, and shalt serve thy brother; and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion, that thou shalt…
- [Genesis 31:32](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/31/32) — With whomsoever thou findest thy gods, let him not live: before our brethren discern thou what is thine with me, and take it to thee. For J…
- [Genesis 42:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/42/2) — And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt: get you down thither, and buy for us from thence; that we may live, and not…
- [Genesis 42:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/42/18) — And Joseph said unto them the third day, This do, and live; for I fear God:
- [Genesis 43:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/43/8) — And Judah said unto Israel his father, Send the lad with me, and we will arise and go; that we may live, and not die, both we, and thou, an…
- [Genesis 45:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/45/7) — And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.
- [Genesis 45:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/45/27) — And they told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said unto them: and when he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the…
- [Genesis 47:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/47/19) — Wherefore shall we die before thine eyes, both we and our land? buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants unto Ph…
- [Genesis 47:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/47/25) — And they said, Thou hast saved our lives: let us find grace in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh’s servants.
- [Genesis 47:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/47/28) — And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the whole age of Jacob was an hundred forty and seven years.
- [Genesis 50:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/50/20) — But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.
- [Genesis 50:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/50/22) — And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father’s house: and Joseph lived an hundred and ten years.
- [Exodus 1:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/1/17) — But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men children alive.
- [Exodus 1:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/1/18) — And the king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said unto them, Why have ye done this thing, and have saved the men children alive?
- [Exodus 1:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/1/22) — And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive.
- [Exodus 19:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/19/13) — There shall not an hand touch it, but he shall surely be stoned, or shot through; whether it be beast or man, it shall not live: when the t…
- [Exodus 22:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/22/18) — Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.
- [Leviticus 25:35](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/25/35) — And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee; then thou shalt relieve him: yea, though he be a stranger, or a sojourner;…
- [Leviticus 25:36](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/25/36) — Take thou no usury of him, or increase: but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee.
- [Numbers 4:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/4/19) — But thus do unto them, that they may live, and not die, when they approach unto the most holy things: Aaron and his sons shall go in, and a…
- [Numbers 14:38](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/14/38) — But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of the men that went to search the land, lived still.
- [Numbers 22:33](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/22/33) — And the ass saw me, and turned from me these three times: unless she had turned from me, surely now also I had slain thee, and saved her al…
- [Numbers 24:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/24/23) — And he took up his parable, and said, Alas, who shall live when God doeth this!
- [Numbers 31:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/31/15) — And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive?
- [Numbers 31:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/31/18) — But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.
- [Deuteronomy 4:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/4/1) — Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgments, which I teach you, for to do them, that ye may live, and go in a…
- [Deuteronomy 4:33](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/4/33) — Did ever people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and live?
- [Deuteronomy 5:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/5/26) — For who is there of all flesh, that hath heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as we have, and lived?
- [Deuteronomy 5:33](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/5/33) — Ye shall walk in all the ways which the LORD your God hath commanded you, that ye may live, and that it may be well with you, and that ye m…
- [Deuteronomy 6:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/6/24) — And the LORD commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the LORD our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as it i…
- [Deuteronomy 8:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/8/1) — All the commandments which I command thee this day shall ye observe to do, that ye may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land w…
- [Deuteronomy 8:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/8/3) — And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he mi…
- [Deuteronomy 16:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/16/20) — That which is altogether just shalt thou follow, that thou mayest live, and inherit the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
- [Deuteronomy 20:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/20/16) — But of the cities of these people, which the LORD thy God doth give thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth:
- [Deuteronomy 30:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/30/16) — In that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgme…
- [Deuteronomy 30:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/30/19) — I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose l…
- [Deuteronomy 32:39](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/32/39) — See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can de…
- [Deuteronomy 33:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/33/6) — Let Reuben live, and not die; and let not his men be few.
- [Joshua 2:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/2/13) — And that ye will save alive my father, and my mother, and my brethren, and my sisters, and all that they have, and deliver our lives from d…
- [Joshua 5:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/5/8) — And it came to pass, when they had done circumcising all the people, that they abode in their places in the camp, till they were whole.
- [Joshua 6:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/6/17) — And the city shall be accursed, even it, and all that are therein, to the LORD: only Rahab the harlot shall live, she and all that are with…
- [Joshua 6:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/6/25) — And Joshua saved Rahab the harlot alive, and her father’s household, and all that she had; and she dwelleth in Israel even unto this day; b…
- [Joshua 9:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/9/15) — And Joshua made peace with them, and made a league with them, to let them live: and the princes of the congregation sware unto them.
- [Joshua 9:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/9/20) — This we will do to them; we will even let them live, lest wrath be upon us, because of the oath which we sware unto them.
- [Joshua 9:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/9/21) — And the princes said unto them, Let them live; but let them be hewers of wood and drawers of water unto all the congregation; as the prince…
- [Joshua 14:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/14/10) — And now, behold, the LORD hath kept me alive, as he said, these forty and five years, even since the LORD spake this word unto Moses, while…
- [Judges 8:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/8/19) — And he said, They were my brethren, even the sons of my mother: as the LORD liveth, if ye had saved them alive, I would not slay you.
- [Judges 15:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/15/19) — But God clave an hollow place that was in the jaw, and there came water thereout; and when he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revi…
- [Judges 21:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/21/14) — And Benjamin came again at that time; and they gave them wives which they had saved alive of the women of Jabeshgilead: and yet so they suf…
- [1 Samuel 2:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/2/6) — The LORD killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up.
- [1 Samuel 10:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/10/24) — And Samuel said to all the people, See ye him whom the LORD hath chosen, that there is none like him among all the people? And all the peop…
- [1 Samuel 27:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/27/9) — And David smote the land, and left neither man nor woman alive, and took away the sheep, and the oxen, and the asses, and the camels, and t…
- [1 Samuel 27:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/27/11) — And David saved neither man nor woman alive, to bring tidings to Gath, saying, Lest they should tell on us, saying, So did David, and so wi…
- [2 Samuel 1:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/1/10) — So I stood upon him, and slew him, because I was sure that he could not live after that he was fallen: and I took the crown that was upon h…
- [2 Samuel 8:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/8/2) — And he smote Moab, and measured them with a line, casting them down to the ground; even with two lines measured he to put to death, and wit…
- [2 Samuel 12:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/12/3) — But the poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and nourished up: and it grew up together with him, and with hi…
- [2 Samuel 16:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/16/16) — And it came to pass, when Hushai the Archite, David’s friend, was come unto Absalom, that Hushai said unto Absalom, God save the king, God…
- [1 Kings 1:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/1/25) — For he is gone down this day, and hath slain oxen and fat cattle and sheep in abundance, and hath called all the king’s sons, and the capta…
- [1 Kings 1:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/1/31) — Then Bathsheba bowed with her face to the earth, and did reverence to the king, and said, Let my lord king David live for ever.
- [1 Kings 1:34](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/1/34) — And let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anoint him there king over Israel: and blow ye with the trumpet, and say, God save king Sol…
- [1 Kings 1:39](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/1/39) — And Zadok the priest took an horn of oil out of the tabernacle, and anointed Solomon. And they blew the trumpet; and all the people said, G…
- [1 Kings 17:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/17/22) — And the LORD heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived.
- [1 Kings 18:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/18/5) — And Ahab said unto Obadiah, Go into the land, unto all fountains of water, and unto all brooks: peradventure we may find grass to save the…
- [1 Kings 20:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/20/31) — And his servants said unto him, Behold now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings: let us, I pray thee, pu…
- [1 Kings 20:32](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/20/32) — So they girded sackcloth on their loins, and put ropes on their heads, and came to the king of Israel, and said, Thy servant Benhadad saith…
- [2 Kings 1:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/1/2) — And Ahaziah fell down through a lattice in his upper chamber that was in Samaria, and was sick: and he sent messengers, and said unto them,…
- [2 Kings 4:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/4/7) — Then she came and told the man of God. And he said, Go, sell the oil, and pay thy debt, and live thou and thy children of the rest.
- [2 Kings 5:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/5/7) — And it came to pass, when the king of Israel had read the letter, that he rent his clothes, and said, Am I God, to kill and to make alive,…
- [2 Kings 7:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/7/4) — If we say, We will enter into the city, then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there: and if we sit still here, we die also. Now…
- [2 Kings 8:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/8/1) — Then spake Elisha unto the woman, whose son he had restored to life, saying, Arise, and go thou and thine household, and sojourn wheresoeve…
- [2 Kings 8:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/8/5) — And it came to pass, as he was telling the king how he had restored a dead body to life, that, behold, the woman, whose son he had restored…
- [2 Kings 8:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/8/8) — And the king said unto Hazael, Take a present in thine hand, and go, meet the man of God, and enquire of the LORD by him, saying, Shall I r…
- [2 Kings 8:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/8/9) — So Hazael went to meet him, and took a present with him, even of every good thing of Damascus, forty camels’ burden, and came and stood bef…
- [2 Kings 8:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/8/10) — And Elisha said unto him, Go, say unto him, Thou mayest certainly recover: howbeit the LORD hath shewed me that he shall surely die.
- [2 Kings 8:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/8/14) — So he departed from Elisha, and came to his master; who said to him, What said Elisha to thee? And he answered, He told me that thou should…
- [2 Kings 10:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/10/19) — Now therefore call unto me all the prophets of Baal, all his servants, and all his priests; let none be wanting: for I have a great sacrifi…
- [2 Kings 11:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/11/12) — And he brought forth the king’s son, and put the crown upon him, and gave him the testimony; and they made him king, and anointed him; and…
- [2 Kings 13:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/13/21) — And it came to pass, as they were burying a man, that, behold, they spied a band of men; and they cast the man into the sepulchre of Elisha…
- [2 Kings 14:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/14/17) — And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years.
- [2 Kings 18:32](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/18/32) — Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of oil olive an…
- [2 Kings 20:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/20/1) — In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz came to him, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Set…
- [2 Kings 20:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/20/7) — And Isaiah said, Take a lump of figs. And they took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered.
- [1 Chronicles 11:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/11/8) — And he built the city round about, even from Millo round about: and Joab repaired the rest of the city.
- [2 Chronicles 23:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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…
- [2 Chronicles 25:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/2/3) — And said unto the king, Let the king live for ever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers’ sepulchre…
- [Nehemiah 4:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 sacr…
- [Nehemiah 5:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 ther…
- [Nehemiah 9:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 commandm…
- [Esther 4:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 in…
- [Job 7:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/7/16) — I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.
- [Job 14:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/21/7) — Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?
- [Job 33:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/33/4) — The spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life.
- [Job 36:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/36/6) — He preserveth not the life of the wicked: but giveth right to the poor.
- [Job 42:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/22/26) — The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the LORD that seek him: your heart shall live for ever.
- [Psalms 22:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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…
- [Psalms 30:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/33/19) — To deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine.
- [Psalms 41:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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…
- [Psalms 49:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/49/9) — That he should still live for ever, and not see corruption.
- [Psalms 69:32](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/69/32) — The humble shall see this, and be glad: and your heart shall live that seek God.
- [Psalms 71:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/71/20) — Thou, which hast shewed me great and sore troubles, shalt quicken me again, and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth.
- [Psalms 72:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 pra…
- [Psalms 80:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/80/18) — So will not we go back from thee: quicken us, and we will call upon thy name.
- [Psalms 85:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/85/6) — Wilt thou not revive us again: that thy people may rejoice in thee?
- [Psalms 89:48](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/89/48) — What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.
- [Psalms 118:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/118/17) — I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the LORD.
- [Psalms 119:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/119/17) — Deal bountifully with thy servant, that I may live, and keep thy word.
- [Psalms 119:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/119/25) — My soul cleaveth unto the dust: quicken thou me according to thy word.
- [Psalms 119:37](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/119/37) — Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken thou me in thy way.
- [Psalms 119:40](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/119/40) — Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy righteousness.
- [Psalms 119:50](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/119/50) — This is my comfort in my affliction: for thy word hath quickened me.
- [Psalms 119:77](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/119/77) — Let thy tender mercies come unto me, that I may live: for thy law is my delight.
- [Psalms 119:88](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/119/88) — Quicken me after thy lovingkindness; so shall I keep the testimony of thy mouth.
- [Psalms 119:93](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/119/93) — I will never forget thy precepts: for with them thou hast quickened me.
- [Psalms 119:107](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/119/107) — I am afflicted very much: quicken me, O LORD, according unto thy word.
- [Psalms 119:116](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/119/116) — Uphold me according unto thy word, that I may live: and let me not be ashamed of my hope.
- [Psalms 119:144](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/119/144) — The righteousness of thy testimonies is everlasting: give me understanding, and I shall live.
- [Psalms 119:149](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/119/149) — Hear my voice according unto thy lovingkindness: O LORD, quicken me according to thy judgment.
- [Psalms 119:154](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/119/154) — Plead my cause, and deliver me: quicken me according to thy word.
- [Psalms 119:156](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/119/156) — Great are thy tender mercies, O LORD: quicken me according to thy judgments.
- [Psalms 119:159](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/119/159) — Consider how I love thy precepts: quicken me, O LORD, according to thy lovingkindness.
- [Psalms 119:175](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/119/175) — Let my soul live, and it shall praise thee; and let thy judgments help me.
- [Psalms 138:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/138/7) — Though I walk in the midst of trouble, thou wilt revive me: thou shalt stretch forth thine hand against the wrath of mine enemies, and thy…
- [Psalms 143:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/143/11) — Quicken me, O LORD, for thy name’s sake: for thy righteousness’ sake bring my soul out of trouble.
- [Proverbs 4:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/4/4) — He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live.
- [Proverbs 7:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/7/2) — Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.
- [Proverbs 9:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/9/6) — Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.
- [Proverbs 15:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/15/27) — He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house; but he that hateth gifts shall live.
- [Ecclesiastes 6:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/6/3) — If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and a…
- [Ecclesiastes 6:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/6/6) — Yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one place?
- [Ecclesiastes 7:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/7/12) — For wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it.
- [Ecclesiastes 11:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/11/8) — But if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many. All that cometh i…
- [Isaiah 7:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/7/21) — And it shall come to pass in that day, that a man shall nourish a young cow, and two sheep;
- [Isaiah 26:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/26/14) — They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all th…
- [Isaiah 26:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/26/19) — Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of h…
- [Isaiah 38:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/38/1) — In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came unto him, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, S…
- [Isaiah 38:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/38/9) — The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness:
- [Isaiah 38:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/38/16) — O LORD, by these things men live, and in all these things is the life of my spirit: so wilt thou recover me, and make me to live.
- [Isaiah 38:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/38/21) — For Isaiah had said, Let them take a lump of figs, and lay it for a plaister upon the boil, and he shall recover.
- [Isaiah 55:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/55/3) — Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies…
- [Isaiah 57:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/57/15) — For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that…
- [Jeremiah 21:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/21/9) — He that abideth in this city shall die by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he that goeth out, and falleth to the Ch…
- [Jeremiah 27:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/27/12) — I spake also to Zedekiah king of Judah according to all these words, saying, Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and se…
- [Jeremiah 27:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/27/17) — Hearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: wherefore should this city be laid waste?
- [Jeremiah 35:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/35/7) — Neither shall ye build house, nor sow seed, nor plant vineyard, nor have any: but all your days ye shall dwell in tents; that ye may live m…
- [Jeremiah 38:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/38/2) — Thus saith the LORD, He that remaineth in this city shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he that goeth forth t…
- [Jeremiah 38:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/38/17) — Then said Jeremiah unto Zedekiah, Thus saith the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of Israel; If thou wilt assuredly go forth unto the king o…
- [Jeremiah 38:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/38/20) — But Jeremiah said, They shall not deliver thee. Obey, I beseech thee, the voice of the LORD, which I speak unto thee: so it shall be well u…
- [Jeremiah 49:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/49/11) — Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.
- [Lamentations 4:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/4/20) — The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the LORD, was taken in their pits, of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the he…
- [Ezekiel 3:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/3/18) — When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to…
- [Ezekiel 3:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/3/21) — Nevertheless if thou warn the righteous man, that the righteous sin not, and he doth not sin, he shall surely live, because he is warned; a…
- [Ezekiel 13:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/13/18) — And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the women that sew pillows to all armholes, and make kerchiefs upon the head of every stature to h…
- [Ezekiel 13:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/13/19) — And will ye pollute me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to slay the souls that should not die, and to save t…
- [Ezekiel 13:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/13/22) — Because with lies ye have made the heart of the righteous sad, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he…
- [Ezekiel 16:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/16/6) — And when I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted in thine own blood, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live; yea, I said unto t…
- [Ezekiel 18:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/18/9) — Hath walked in my statutes, and hath kept my judgments, to deal truly; he is just, he shall surely live, saith the Lord GOD.
- [Ezekiel 18:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/18/13) — Hath given forth upon usury, and hath taken increase: shall he then live? he shall not live: he hath done all these abominations; he shall…
- [Ezekiel 18:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/18/17) — That hath taken off his hand from the poor, that hath not received usury nor increase, hath executed my judgments, hath walked in my statut…
- [Ezekiel 18:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/18/19) — Yet say ye, Why? doth not the son bear the iniquity of the father? When the son hath done that which is lawful and right, and hath kept all…
- [Ezekiel 18:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/18/21) — But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he s…
- [Ezekiel 18:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/18/22) — All his transgressions that he hath committed, they shall not be mentioned unto him: in his righteousness that he hath done he shall live.
- [Ezekiel 18:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/18/23) — Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord GOD: and not that he should return from his ways, and live?
- [Ezekiel 18:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/18/27) — Again, when the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness that he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall save…
- [Ezekiel 18:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/18/28) — Because he considereth, and turneth away from all his transgressions that he hath committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
- [Ezekiel 18:32](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/18/32) — For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord GOD: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye.
- [Ezekiel 20:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/20/25) — Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and judgments whereby they should not live;
- [Ezekiel 33:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/33/10) — Therefore, O thou son of man, speak unto the house of Israel; Thus ye speak, saying, If our transgressions and our sins be upon us, and we…
- [Ezekiel 33:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/33/11) — Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live…
- [Ezekiel 33:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/33/12) — Therefore, thou son of man, say unto the children of thy people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his…
- [Ezekiel 33:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/33/13) — When I shall say to the righteous, that he shall surely live; if he trust to his own righteousness, and commit iniquity, all his righteousn…
- [Ezekiel 33:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/33/15) — If the wicked restore the pledge, give again that he had robbed, walk in the statutes of life, without committing iniquity; he shall surely…
- [Ezekiel 33:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/33/16) — None of his sins that he hath committed shall be mentioned unto him: he hath done that which is lawful and right; he shall surely live.
- [Ezekiel 33:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/33/19) — But if the wicked turn from his wickedness, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall live thereby.
- [Ezekiel 37:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/37/3) — And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord GOD, thou knowest.
- [Ezekiel 37:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/37/5) — Thus saith the Lord GOD unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live:
- [Ezekiel 37:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/37/6) — And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye…
- [Ezekiel 37:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/37/9) — Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Come from the four winds,…
- [Ezekiel 37:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/37/10) — So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army.
- [Ezekiel 37:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/37/14) — And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the LORD have spoken i…
- [Ezekiel 47:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/47/9) — And it shall come to pass, that every thing that liveth, which moveth, whithersoever the rivers shall come, shall live: and there shall be…
- [Hosea 6:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/6/2) — After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.
- [Hosea 14:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/14/7) — They that dwell under his shadow shall return; they shall revive as the corn, and grow as the vine: the scent thereof shall be as the wine…
- [Amos 5:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/amos/5/4) — For thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live:
- [Amos 5:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/amos/5/6) — Seek the LORD, and ye shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and devour it, and there be none to quench it in Beth…
- [Amos 5:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/amos/5/14) — Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the LORD, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken.
- [Habakkuk 2:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/habakkuk/2/4) — Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith.
- [Habakkuk 3:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/habakkuk/3/2) — O LORD, I have heard thy speech, and was afraid: O LORD, revive thy work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make known; i…
- [Zechariah 1:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zechariah/1/5) — Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?
- [Zechariah 10:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zechariah/10/9) — And I will sow them among the people: and they shall remember me in far countries; and they shall live with their children, and turn again.
- [Zechariah 13:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zechariah/13/3) — And it shall come to pass, that when any shall yet prophesy, then his father and his mother that begat him shall say unto him, Thou shalt n…