Hebrew verb (Aramaic) · H2418
חֲיָא
chayakhah-yaw'
to live
6 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: chăyâʼ
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2418is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 39Old Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H2418
to live
The King James renders it: live, keep alive.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
chaya is rendered "to live". It stands 6 times in the Hebrew text, across one book.
- Six of the uses stand in Daniel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Daniel 2:4Then the astrologers answered the king in Aramaic, “O king, may you live forever! Tell your servants the dream, and we will give the interpretation.”
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
Then the astrologers answered the king in Aramaic, “O king, may you live forever! Tell your servants the dream, and we will give the interpretation.”
Daniel 2:4חֱיִ֔י
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Six of the word's six uses are in Daniel.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- live5
- letting live1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 6, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- חֱיִֽי׃3
- חֱיִ֔י2
- מַחֵ֔א1
The grammar of each form
- verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singular5AVqv2ms
- verb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singular1AVhrmsa
Daniel
six uses
Then the astrologers answered the king in Aramaic, “O king, may you live forever! Tell your servants the dream, and we will give the interpretation.”
- חֱיִ֔יcheyiverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: live
saying to King Nebuchadnezzar, “O king, may you live forever!
- חֱיִֽי׃cheyiverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: live
Hearing the outcry of the king and his nobles, the queen entered the banquet hall. “O king, may you live forever!” she said. “Do not let your thoughts terrify you, or your face grow pale.
- חֱיִ֔יcheyiverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: live
Because of the greatness that He bestowed on him, the people of every nation and language trembled in fear before him. He killed whom he wished and kept alive whom he wished; he exalted whom he wished and humbled whom he wished.
- מַחֵ֔אmache'verb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singulartagged: letting live
So the administrators and satraps went together to the king and said, “O King Darius, may you live forever!
- חֱיִֽי׃cheyiverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: live
Then Daniel replied, “O king, may you live forever!
- חֱיִֽי׃cheyiverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: live
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.