חָיָה châyâh — to live, whether literally or figuratively
Translated in the KJV as keep (leave, make) alive, × certainly, give life, (let, suffer to) live, nourish up, preserve, quicken, recover, repair, restore.
a primitive root (compare H2331, H2421); to live, whether literally or figuratively; causatively, to revive.
châyâh in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Imperfect (yiqtol) 74Wayyiqtol 45Sequential perfect (weqatal) 18Jussive 15Imperative 13Infinitive absolute 11Perfect (qatal) 6Infinitive construct 2Cohortative 1
And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:
And Seth lived an hundred and five years, and begat Enos:
And Seth lived after he begat Enos eight hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters:
Pi'el
Imperfect (yiqtol) 30Imperative 10Infinitive construct 6Perfect (qatal) 6Wayyiqtol 3Participle (active) 2
Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.
Therefore it shall come to pass, when the Egyptians shall see thee, that they shall say, This is his wife: and they will kill me, but they will save thee alive.
Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
Hiph'il
Infinitive construct 10Perfect (qatal) 9Imperative 2Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1Infinitive absolute 1
And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female.
Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive.
Behold now, thy servant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewed unto me in saving my life; and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil take me, and I die:
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›