# H4241 מִחְיָה

מִחְיָה (michyâh), Strong’s H4241: preservation of life; hence, sustenance; also the live flesh, i.e. the quick KJV: preserve life, quick, recover selves, reviving, sustenance, victuals.. Occurs 8…

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*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](https://besorah.bible/word/H2421) (to live, whether literally or figuratively)

Occurs 8 times.

## 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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/45?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/13?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/13?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/6?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/17?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ezra/9?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ezra/9?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-chronicles/14?v=12) — Asa and the people who were with him pursued them to Gerar. So many of the Ethiopians fell that they could not recover…