חַי

Word meanings

Senses and individuals

• alive H2416A 242
• life H2416E 145
• living thing H2416C 106
• community H2416D 4
• kinsfolk H2416B 1

Strong's dictionary

from חָיָה; 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; [phrase] age, alive, appetite, (wild) beast, company, congregation, life(-time), live(-ly), living (creature, thing), maintenance, [phrase] merry, multitude, [phrase] (be) old, quick, raw, running, springing, troop.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (public domain)

Every occurrence

1. Ecclesiastes 2:3 חַיֵּיהֶֽם׃ chai.yei.Hem · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

   I searched in my heart how to cheer my flesh with wine, my heart yet guiding me with wisdom, and how to lay hold on folly, till I might see what it was good for the sons of men that they should do under heaven all the days of their life.

2. Ecclesiastes 2:17 הַ֣חַיִּ֔ים ha.chai.Yim · A person, place or thing

   So I hated life, because the work that is wrought under the sun was grievous unto me; for all is vanity and a striving after wind.

3. Ecclesiastes 3:12 בְּחַיָּֽיו׃ be.chai.Yav · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

   I know that there is nothing better for them, than to rejoice, and to do good so long as they live.

4. Ecclesiastes 4:2 הַ֣חַיִּ֔ים ha.chai.Yim · Describes something

   Wherefore I praised the dead that have been long dead more than the living that are yet alive;

5. Ecclesiastes 4:2 חַיִּ֖ים chai.Yim · Describes something

   Wherefore I praised the dead that have been long dead more than the living that are yet alive;

6. Ecclesiastes 4:15 הַ֣חַיִּ֔ים ha.chai.Yim · Describes something

   I saw all the living that walk under the sun, that they were with the youth, the second, that stood up in his stead.

7. Ecclesiastes 5:18 חַיָּ֛יו chai.yav · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

   Behold, that which I have seen to be good and to be comely is for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy good in all his labor, wherein he laboreth under the sun, all the days of his life which God hath given him: for this is his portion.

8. Ecclesiastes 5:20 חַיָּ֑יו chai.Yav · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

   For he shall not much remember the days of his life; because God answereth him in the joy of his heart.

9. Ecclesiastes 6:8 הַחַיִּֽים׃ ha.chai.Yim · Describes something

   For what advantage hath the wise more than the fool? or what hath the poor man, that knoweth how to walk before the living?

10. Ecclesiastes 6:12 בַּֽחַיִּ֗ים ba.chai.Yim · A person, place or thing

    For who knoweth what is good for man in his life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?

11. Ecclesiastes 6:12 חַיֵּ֥י chai.Yei · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    For who knoweth what is good for man in his life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?

12. Ecclesiastes 7:2 וְהַחַ֖י ve.ha.Chai · Describes something

    It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.

13. Ecclesiastes 8:15 חַיָּ֛יו chai.Yav · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be joyful: for that shall abide with him in his labor all the days of his life which God hath given him under the sun.

14. Ecclesiastes 9:3 בְּחַיֵּיהֶ֔ם be.chai.yei.Hem · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea also, the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

15. Ecclesiastes 9:4 הַחַיִּ֖ים ha.chai.Yim · Describes something

    For to him that is joined with all the living there is hope; for a living dog is better than a dead lion.

16. Ecclesiastes 9:4 חַי֙ chai · Describes something

    For to him that is joined with all the living there is hope; for a living dog is better than a dead lion.

17. Ecclesiastes 9:5 הַֽחַיִּ֛ים ha.chai.Yim · Describes something

    For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not anything, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

18. Ecclesiastes 9:9 חַיִּ֜ים chai.Yim · A person, place or thing

    Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of thy life of vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all thy days of vanity: for that is thy portion in life, and in thy labor wherein thou laborest under the sun.

19. Ecclesiastes 9:9 חַיֵּ֣י chai.Yei · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of thy life of vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all thy days of vanity: for that is thy portion in life, and in thy labor wherein thou laborest under the sun.

20. Ecclesiastes 9:9 בַּֽחַיִּ֔ים ba.chai.Yim · A person, place or thing

    Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of thy life of vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all thy days of vanity: for that is thy portion in life, and in thy labor wherein thou laborest under the sun.

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