מִחְיָה
michyâh · H4241 · Hebrew · 8 occurrences
Meanings
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staying alive
Action by which people who were at risk of dying are enabled to stay alive
Examples2 Chronicles 14:13 Asa and the people who were with him pursued them as far as Gerar; and so many Ethiopians fell that they could not recover, for they were shattered before the LORD and before His army. And they carried away a very large amount of plunder.
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sustenance
Food given to people on a regular basis to enable them to live on
ExamplesJudges 6:4 So they would camp against them and destroy the produce of the earth as far as Gaza, and leave no sustenance in Israel, nor a sheep, ox, or donkey.
Judges 17:10 Micah then said to him, “Stay with me and be a father and a priest to me, and I will give you ten pieces of silver a year, a supply of clothing, and your sustenance.” So the Levite went in.
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rawness
State in which objects have recently attained a particular state
ExamplesLeviticus 13:10 “The priest shall then look, and if there is a white swelling on the skin, and it has turned the hair white, and there is new raw flesh in the swelling,
Leviticus 13:24 “Or if the body sustains in its skin a burn by fire, and the raw flesh of the burn becomes a bright spot, reddish-white, or white,
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reviving
Process by which humans become more confident and hopeful than they were before, as if their courage comes back to life
ExamplesEzra 9:8 “But now for a brief moment grace has been shown from the LORD our God, to leave us an escaped remnant and to give us a peg in His holy place, so that our God may enlighten our eyes and grant us a little reviving in our bondage.
Ezra 9:9 “For we are slaves; yet in our bondage our God has not abandoned us, but has extended favor to us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us reviving to erect the house of our God, to restore its ruins, and to give us a wall in Judah and Jerusalem.
How it’s used In 7 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- בָּשָׂרflesh 1
- מִכְוָהburn 1
- ךָyour 1
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- מְעַטfew 1
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הָיָהto be, to become 1
What is done to itIt is the object
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- נָתַןto give, to put, to set 1
- שָׁאַרto remain 1
Second object ofSecond object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- נָתַןto give, to put, to set 1
What it is said to bePredicate
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- אַיִןthere is no, not 1
- שְׂאֵתlifting up 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- לto/for 2
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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Semantic domains 4 entries
- Alive002001001003
- מִחְיָה can denote the preservation or continuation of life, as in Joseph's assurance to his brothers, "God sent me ahead of you to save lives" (Genesis 45:5).
- Food001003001003
- The word also denotes sustenance or provisions that keep a person alive, as in Judges 6:4's report that Midianite raiders "left no sustenance in Israel," and Judges 17:10's payment of food to a Levite.
- Stage002001001060
- In the priestly diagnostic instructions for skin disease, the word marks the raw, living flesh that signals an advanced stage of the disease (Leviticus 13:10, 24), a distinct sense from the life-preservation and food senses above.
- Confident002001002003
- The fact-packet data also assigns the Confident domain here, likely reflecting the sense of restored assurance implicit in being preserved or sustained through hardship, though no sampled citation directly illustrates this beyond the life-preservation and sustenance senses above.
Word family 12 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4241. michyah מִחְיָה noun feminine preservation of life, sustenance, ׳מ Gen 45:5 Gen…
מִחְיָה noun feminine preservation of life, sustenance, ׳מ Gen 45:5 Gen 45:4t.; construct מִחְיַת Lev 13:10, Lev 13:24; suffix מִחְיָתֶ֑ךָ Jdg 17:10; —
1 preservation of life Gen 45:5 (E), 2Ch 14:12.
2 sustenance Jdg 6:4; Jdg 17:10.
3 reviving, Ezr 9:8-9,.
4 the quick (בָּשָׂר) מִחְיַת the quick (or raw spot) of the flesh Lev 13:10, Lev 13:24 (P).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 4 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
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