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Isaiah 38

Isa. 38:16 KJV (With Strong’s)

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O Lord
'Adonay (Hebrew #136)
the Lord (used as a proper name of God only)
KJV usage: (my) Lord.
Pronounce: ad-o-noy'
Origin: am emphatic form of 113
, by these things menm live
chayah (Hebrew #2421)
to live, whether literally or figuratively; causatively, to revive
KJV usage: 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.
Pronounce: khaw-yaw'
Origin: a primitive root (compare 2331, 2421)
, and in all these things is the life
chay (Hebrew #2416)
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
KJV usage: + age, alive, appetite, (wild) beast, company, congregation, life(-time), live(-ly), living (creature, thing), maintenance, + merry, multitude, + (be) old, quick, raw, running, springing, troop.
Pronounce: khah'-ee
Origin: from 2421
of my spirit
ruwach (Hebrew #7307)
wind; by resemblance breath, i.e. a sensible (or even violent) exhalation; figuratively, life, anger, unsubstantiality; by extension, a region of the sky; by resemblance spirit, but only of a rational being (including its expression and functions)
KJV usage: air, anger, blast, breath, X cool, courage, mind, X quarter, X side, spirit((-ual)), tempest, X vain, ((whirl-))wind(-y).
Pronounce: roo'-akh
Origin: from 7306
: so wilt thou recover
chalam (Hebrew #2492)
properly, to bind firmly, i.e. (by implication) to be (causatively to make) plump; also (through the figurative sense of dumbness) to dream
KJV usage: (cause to) dream(-er), be in good liking, recover.
Pronounce: khaw-lam'
Origin: a primitive root
me, and make me to live
chayah (Hebrew #2421)
to live, whether literally or figuratively; causatively, to revive
KJV usage: 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.
Pronounce: khaw-yaw'
Origin: a primitive root (compare 2331, 2421)
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Matt. 4:4• 4But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. (Matt. 4:4)

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Isa. 64:5• 5Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou art wroth; for we have sinned: in those is continuance, and we shall be saved. (Isa. 64:5)
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Deut. 8:3• 3And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live. (Deut. 8:3)
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Job 33:19‑28• 19He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong pain:
 20So that his life abhorreth bread, and his soul dainty meat.
 21His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his bones that were not seen stick out.
 22Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave, and his life to the destroyers.
 23If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to show unto man his uprightness:
 24Then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom.
 25His flesh shall be fresher than a child's: he shall return to the days of his youth:
 26He shall pray unto God, and he will be favorable unto him: and he shall see his face with joy: for he will render unto man his righteousness.
 27He looketh upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not;
 28He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light. (Job 33:19‑28)
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Psa. 71:20• 20Thou, which hast showed me great and sore troubles, shalt quicken me again, and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth. (Psa. 71:20)
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Matt. 4:4• 4But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. (Matt. 4:4)
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1 Cor. 11:32• 32But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world. (1 Cor. 11:32)
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2 Cor. 4:17• 17For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; (2 Cor. 4:17)
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Heb. 12:10‑11• 10For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.
 11Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby. (Heb. 12:10‑11)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Lord, by these things men live, and in all these things is the life of my spirit; and thou hast recovered me, and made me to live.