H4241 מִחְיָה
michyâh — preservation of life; hence, sustenance; also the live flesh, i.e. the quick
KJV: preserve life, quick, recover selves, reviving, sustenance, victuals.
Derived from חָיָה châyâh (to live, whether literally or figuratively)
Occurs 8 times. Every verse with this word
Brown–Driver–Briggs
- מִחְיָה n.f. preservation of life, sustenance
- 1 preservation of life
- 2 sustenance
- 3 reviving
- 4 the quick
Where it occurs
- Genesis 45:5 — Now don’t be grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life.
- Leviticus 13:10 — and the priest shall examine him. Behold, if there is a white swelling in the skin, and it has turned the hair white…
- Leviticus 13:24 — “Or when the body has a burn from fire on its skin, and the raw flesh of the burn becomes a bright spot, reddish-white…
- Judges 6:4 — They encamped against them, and destroyed the increase of the earth, until you come to Gaza. They left no sustenance in…
- Judges 17:10 — Micah said to him, “Dwell with me, and be to me a father and a priest, and I will give you ten pieces of silver per…
- Ezra 9:8 — Now for a little moment grace has been shown from the LORD our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a…
- Ezra 9:9 — For we are bondservants; yet our God has not forsaken us in our bondage, but has extended loving kindness to us in the…
- 2 Chronicles 14:12 — Asa and the people who were with him pursued them to Gerar. So many of the Ethiopians fell that they could not recover…