חֲיָא
chăyâʼ · H2418 · Aramaic · 6 occurrences
Meanings
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to be alive, to become alive, to live
Process by which humans are alive and well; because of the presence of air to breathe and food to eat; life is regarded as more than a mere physical condition; in many cases it includes health, strength, and some degree of prosperity
ExamplesDaniel 2:4 Then the Chaldeans spoke to the king in Aramaic: “O king, live forever! Tell the dream to your servants, and we will declare the interpretation.”
Daniel 5:19 “Now because of the greatness which He granted him, all the peoples, nations, and populations of all languages trembled and feared in his presence; whomever he wished, he killed, and whomever he wished, he spared alive; and whomever he wished he elevated, and whomever he wished he humbled.
Daniel 3:9 They began to speak and said to Nebuchadnezzar the king: “O king, live forever!
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
5 occurrences in 1 groups
- Not stated: you (one person) 5
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
5 occurrences in 1 groups
- לto/for+ עָלַםfor ever 5
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 1 word
- ζάω záō · G2198 · to be alive, to live, to come back to life
- Greek ζάω is the standard New Testament verb for 'to live' and serves as the direct translation equivalent of Aramaic חֲיָא in contexts where living (physically or spiritually) is denoted; both share the core semantic range of animate existence and continued life.
Semantic domains 6 entries
- Alive002001001003
- Daniel 2:4 recounts that the Chaldeans addressed the king, “O king, live forever! Tell the dream to your servants, and we will declare the interpretation.”
- Stage002001001060
- This Stage code is inherited from the shared lemma-cluster grouping with the Hebrew form (חָיָה (châyâh, H2421)), whose “to grow; to raise” sense is well attested; this word's own occurrence carries only the idiom of long life, never growth as such.
- Strong002001001063
- This Strong code is likewise inherited from the same shared lemma-cluster grouping's “to be healthy; to be strong; to be vigorous” and “to preserve; to revive” senses; this word's own occurrence shows only the idiom of long life, never physical vigor or preservation.
- Confident002001002003
- This Confident code is inherited from the shared lemma-cluster grouping's “to be, become confident; to be, become happy” sense; this word's own occurrence carries no such sense of confidence or happiness.
- Dwell002002001005
- This Dwell code is likewise inherited from the shared lemma-cluster grouping's “to live” sense (of dwelling somewhere); this word's own occurrence means only the idiom of long life, never residing in a place.
- Happen002002003003
- This Happen code is inherited from the same shared lemma-cluster grouping's “to repeat; to do again” sense; this word's own occurrence carries no such sense of repetition.
Word family 12 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2418. chaya [חֲיָא] verb live (see Biblical Hebrew תָיָה); — Pe`al Imperative חֱיִי…
[חֲיָא] verb live (see Biblical Hebrew תָיָה); —
Pe`al Imperative חֱיִי לְעָֽלְמִין live for ever! Dan 2:4; Dan 3:9; Dan 5:10; Dan 6:7, Dan 6:22.
Hiph`il Participle מַחֵא (K§ 11. 3 b) γ) HptKmp. Dn. 28) Dan 5:19 let live.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 6 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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