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# מִחְיָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4241

**preservation of life** — used 8 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

preservation of life [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4241/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מִחְיָה: n.f. preservation of life, sustenance [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4241/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. preservation of life, sustenance, מ׳ Gn 45:5 + 4 times; cstr. מִחְיַת Lv 13:10, 24; sf. מִחְיָתֶ֑ךָ Ju 17:10;— preservation of life Gn 45:5 (E), 2 Ch 14:12. sustenance Ju 6:4; 17:10. reviving, Ezr 9:8, 9. the quick (בָּשָׂר) מִחְיַת the quick (or raw spot) of the flesh Lv 13:10, 24 (P).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 3 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: preservation of life (2); reviving (2); sustenance (2).

## In the verses

[Leviticus 13:24](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.13.24/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.13.24/#tree)

א֣וֹ בָשָׂ֔ר כִּֽי־יִהְיֶ֥ה בְעֹר֖וֹ מִכְוַת־אֵ֑שׁ וְֽהָיְתָ֞ה מִֽחְיַ֣ת הַמִּכְוָ֗ה בַּהֶ֛רֶת לְבָנָ֥ה אֲדַמְדֶּ֖מֶת א֥וֹ לְבָנָֽה׃

*Word for word:* or flesh (dm) it.will.be on skin its a.burn of.fire and it.will.be the.raw.spot of the.burn a.bright.spot white reddish or white

*JPS 1917:* Or when the flesh hath in the skin thereof a burning by fire, and the quick flesh of the burning become a bright spot, reddish-white, or white;

[Leviticus 13:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.13.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.13.10/#tree)

וְרָאָ֣ה הַכֹּהֵ֗ן וְהִנֵּ֤ה שְׂאֵת־לְבָנָה֙ בָּע֔וֹר וְהִ֕יא הָפְכָ֖ה שֵׂעָ֣ר לָבָ֑ן וּמִֽחְיַ֛ת בָּשָׂ֥ר חַ֖י בַּשְׂאֵֽת׃

*Word for word:* and he.will.see the priest and there! a.swelling white \[is\].in the skin and it it.has.turned \[the\].hair white and a.raw.spot of.flesh living \[is\].in the swelling

*JPS 1917:* And the priest shall look, and, behold, if there be a white rising in the skin, and it have turned the hair white, and there be quick raw flesh in the rising,

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4241.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4241/): 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).