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title: חָיֶה — having the vigour of life · The Tanakh dictionary
description: חָיֶה (2422), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: having the vigour of life. BDB 1906: adj. having the vigour of life, lively. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# חָיֶה

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«חָיֶה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **having the vigour of life** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 2422 · **BDB:** חָיֶה

### Glosses

\[are\].vigorous (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

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

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

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

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**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.

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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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «חָיֶה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2422/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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

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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.'

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