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# חָיֶה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2422

**having the vigour of life** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

having the vigour of life [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2422/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חָיֶה: adj. having the vigour of life, lively [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2422/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. having the vigour of life, lively (on format. v. LagBN 49)—fpl. חָיוֹת Ex 1:19 (E), of Hebrew women in childbirth, bearing quickly, easily.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (10 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (8 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[are\] vigorous (1).

## In the verses

[Exodus 1:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.1.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.1.19/#tree)

וַתֹּאמַ֤רְןָ הַֽמְיַלְּדֹת֙ אֶל־פַּרְעֹ֔ה כִּ֣י לֹ֧א כַנָּשִׁ֛ים הַמִּצְרִיֹּ֖ת הָֽעִבְרִיֹּ֑ת כִּֽי־חָי֣וֹת הֵ֔נָּה בְּטֶ֨רֶם תָּב֧וֹא אֲלֵהֶ֛ן הַמְיַלֶּ֖דֶת וְיָלָֽדוּ׃

*Word for word:* and they.said the midwives to Pharaoh (dm) not \[are\].like the women (the) Egyptian the.Hebrew \[women\] (dm) \[are\].vigorous they before she.comes to them the midwife and they.give.birth

*JPS 1917:* And the midwives said unto Pharaoh: 'Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women; for they are lively, and are delivered ere the midwife come unto them.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2422.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2422/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).