חָיַי
ḥāyay
live
Strong's H2425VerbHebrewTWOT 644

חָיַי (ḥāyay) is a Hebrew verb meaning live. It appears 20 times in 8 books of the Hebrew Bible (Strong's H2425).

Same Hebrew root (TWOT 644)

Range of meaning (TWOT 644)live; be quickened, revive; preserve alive, let live, give life, refresh; keep alive, nourish up, preserve, recover, repair, restore, save, be whole, save life
Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's

חָיָה verb: live

Strong's H2421 חָיָה: to live, whether literally or figuratively; causatively, to revive
KJV:keep (leave, make) alive, × certainly, give (promise) life, (let, suffer to) live, nourish up, preserve (alive), quicken, recover, repair, restore (to life), revive, (× God) save (alive, life, lives), × surely, be whole.

Strong's H2425 חָיַי: to live; causatively to revive
KJV:live, save life.

Meanings: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890), public domain, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0). TWOT numbers for reference only.

See it in Scripture

Genesis 3:22Exodus 1:16Leviticus 18:5

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