Hebrew Word Study · Strong’s H4241
מִחְיָה
mich.yah · “recovery”
Used 8 times across 5 books
Definition
1) preservation of life, sustenance
1a) preservation of life
1b) sustenance
1c) reviving
1d) the quick of the flesh, live flesh, tender or raw flesh
1a) preservation of life
1b) sustenance
1c) reviving
1d) the quick of the flesh, live flesh, tender or raw flesh
Where it appears
Genesis1
Leviticus2
Judges2
2 Chronicles1
Ezra2
In the text
Genesis 45:5Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life.Leviticus 13:10And the priest shall see him: and, behold, if the rising be white in the skin, and it have turned the hair white, and there be quick raw flesh in the rising;Leviticus 13:24Or if there be any flesh, in the skin whereof there is a hot burning, and the quick flesh that burneth have a white bright spot, somewhat reddish, or white;Judges 6:4And they encamped against them, and destroyed the increase of the earth, till thou come unto Gaza, and left no sustenance for Israel, neither sheep, nor ox, nor ass.Judges 17:10And Micah said unto him, Dwell with me, and be unto me a father and a priest, and I will give thee ten shekels of silver by the year, and a suit of apparel, and thy victuals. So the Levite went in.2 Chronicles 14:12So the Lord smote the Ethiopians before Asa, and before Judah; and the Ethiopians fled.Ezra 9:8And now for a little space grace hath been shewed from the Lord our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a nail in his holy place, that our God may lighten our eyes, and give us a little reviving in our bondage.Ezra 9:9For we were bondmen; yet our God hath not forsaken us in our bondage, but hath extended mercy unto us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God, and to repair the desolations thereof, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.
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