michya · preserving life; raw flesh

What it means

michya (מִחְיָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “preserving life; raw flesh”.

Preservation of life; the sustenance that keeps one alive. Also raw flesh in a sore.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Keeping someone alive; a little new strength.
2. What one needs to eat.
3. Raw flesh in a sore.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• life ×4
• patch ×2
• sustenance ×2

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Leviticus×2
• Judges×2
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Ezra×2

• Genesis 45:5

  And now, do not be distressed, and do not be angry with yourselves because you sold me here, for to preserve life Elohim sent me before you.

• Leviticus 13:10

  The priest shall examine him, and if there is a white swelling in the skin, and it has turned the hair white, and there is a patch of raw flesh in the swelling,

• Leviticus 13:24

  Or when the body has in its skin a burn by fire, and the patch of the burn becomes a bright spot, reddish white or white,

• Judges 6:4

  They would camp against them and destroy the produce of the land as far as your coming to Gaza, and they would not leave sustenance in Israel, neither lamb nor ox nor donkey.

• Judges 17:10

  And Micah said to him, “Stay with me and be for me a father and a priest, and I will give you ten shekels of silver a year, and a set of clothes, and your sustenance.” So the Levite went.

• 2 Chronicles 14:13

  Asa and the people who were with him pursued them as far as Gerar; and of the Cushites there fell until they had no life left, for they were broken before YHWH and before his camp. And they carried away very much spoil.

• Ezra 9:8

  And now, for a brief moment there has been favor from YHWH our Elohim, to leave us escapees, and to give us a peg in his holy place, that our Elohim may brighten our eyes and give us a little life in our servitude.

• Ezra 9:9

  For we are slaves, yet in our servitude our Elohim has not forsaken us, but he extended to us loyal love before the kings of Persia, to give us life, to raise up the house of our Elohim and to set up its ruins, and to give us a fence in Judah and in Jerusalem.