# מִחְיָה (michyah)

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

Strong’s H4241. 8 Old Testament occurrences.

preservation of life; hence, sustenance; also the live flesh, i.e. the quick

King James renderings: preserve life, quick, recover selves, reviving, sustenance, victuals.

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

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/michyah-h4241

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 45:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/45/5) — Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life.
- [Leviticus 13:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/13/10) — And 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 fl…
- [Leviticus 13:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/13/24) — Or 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 r…
- [Judges 6:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/6/4) — And they encamped against them, and destroyed the increase of the earth, till thou come unto Gaza, and left no sustenance for Israel, neith…
- [Judges 17:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/17/10) — And 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…
- [2 Chronicles 14:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/14/13) — And Asa and the people that were with him pursued them unto Gerar: and the Ethiopians were overthrown, that they could not recover themselv…
- [Ezra 9:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezra/9/8) — And 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…
- [Ezra 9:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezra/9/9) — For we were bondmen; yet our God hath not forsaken us in our bondage, but hath extended mercy unto us in the sight of the kings of Persia,…