Strong's Hebrew · H2418
H2418 chăyâʼ
חֲיָא
khah-yaw'
live, keep alive.
When chăyâʼ is spoken over you, Doxa is where you record what was said, in the words it was said in, weigh it against Scripture with people you trust, and return to it in a year.
Definition
to live
Derivation
(Aramaic) or חֲיָה; (Aramaic), corresponding to H2421 (חָיָה);
Appears 6 times in Scripture
“Then the astrologers answered the king in Aramaic, “O king, may you live forever! Tell your servants the dream, and we will give the interpretation.””
“Then Daniel replied, “O king, may you live forever!”
“Hearing the outcry of the king and his nobles, the queen entered the banquet hall. “O king, may you live forever!” she said. “Do not let your thoughts terrify you, or your face grow pale.”
“Because of the greatness that He bestowed on him, the people of every nation and language trembled in fear before him. He killed whom he wished and kept alive whom he wished; he exalted whom he wished and humbled whom he wished.”
“So the administrators and satraps went together to the king and said, “O King Darius, may you live forever!”
“saying to King Nebuchadnezzar, “O king, may you live forever!”
When chăyâʼ is spoken over you
Words like this one get spoken over people: in a prayer line, in a message from a friend, in a moment nobody planned. The lexicon gives you what chăyâʼ means. What God is saying to you through it is yours to record and weigh.
Doxa is where you record what was said, in the words it was said in, weigh it against verses like Daniel 2:4 with people you trust, and return to it in a year to see what came of it.
Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).