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 Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 2:44 am Post subject: choose life |
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Welcome to the board Diane. That is a very interesting Hebrew observation.
וּבָחַרְתָּ בַּחַיִּים
According to the original Strong's dictionary "choose life" is correct:
| BACHAR wrote: | Word: בחר
Pronounc: baw-khar'
Strong: #H977
Transliter: bachar
a primitive root; properly, to try, i.e. (by implication) select:--acceptable, appoint, choose (choice), excellent, join, be rather, require. |
| CHAY wrote: | Word: חי
Pronounc: khah'-ee
Strong: #H2416
Transliter: chay
from 2421; alive; hence, raw (flesh); fresh (plant, water, year), strong; also (as noun, especially in the feminine singular and masculine plural) life (or living thing), whether literally or figuratively:--+ age, alive, appetite, (wild) beast, company, congregation, life(-time), live(-ly), living (creature, thing), maintenance, + merry, multitude, + (be) old, quick, raw, running, springing, troop.
| Code: | Word: חיה
Pronounc: khaw-yaw'
Strong: #H2421
Transliter: chayah
a primitive root (compare 2331, 2421); to live, whether literally or figuratively; causatively, to revive:--keep (leave, make) alive, X certainly, give (promise) life, (let, suffer to) live, nourish up, preserve (alive), quicken, recover, repair, restore (to life), revive, (X God) save (alive, life, lives), X surely, be whole.
Word: חוה
Pronounc: khaw-vah'
Strong: #H2331
Transliter: chavah
a primitive root; (compare 2324, 2421); properly, to live; by implication (intensively) to declare or show:--show.
Word: חיה
Pronounc: khaw-yaw'
Strong: #H2421
Transliter: chayah
a primitive root (compare 2331, 2421); to live, whether literally or figuratively; causatively, to revive:--keep (leave, make) alive, X certainly, give (promise) life, (let, suffer to) live, nourish up, preserve (alive), quicken, recover, repair, restore (to life), revive, (X God) save (alive, life, lives), X surely, be whole.
Word: חוא
Pronounc: khav-aw'
Strong: #H2324
Transliter: chava'
(Aramaic) corresponding to 2331; to show:--shew. |
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| Zechariah 4:6 | | He answered, and said unto me: This is the word of the LORD unto Zorobabel, saying: Neither thorow an host of men, nor thorow strength, but thorow my spirit, sayeth the LORD of Hosts. |
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