חָיַי châyay — to live
Translated in the KJV as live, save life.
a primitive root (compare H2421); to live; causatively to revive.
châyay in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Sequential perfect (weqatal) 17Perfect (qatal) 3
And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:
And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.
And these are the days of the years of Abraham’s life which he lived, an hundred threescore and fifteen years.
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 ›