חַי

chay · alive

Hebrew · Strong's H2416 · Adjective · Sounds like: khah'-ee · 498 occurrences

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)

Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
חַי adj. alive, living
1.
a. of God, as the living one, the fountain of life
b. of man
c. of animals, alive, living
d. animals and man
e. (dub.) of vegetation, as thorns, green
f. of water, fresh
2. (dub.) lively, active
3. reviving
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[חַי] n.[m.] kinsfolk, pl. sf. 1 S 18:18
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חַיָּה n.f. living thing, animal
1. animal
a. in general
b. wild animals, on account of their vital energy and activity
c. living beings, of the cherubic chariot
2. life, only in late poetry
3. appetite, activity of hunger
4. revival, renewal
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חַיָּה n.f. community
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חַיִּים n.m. pl. abstr. emph. life
1. life: physical
2. life: as welfare and happiness in king's presence
3. sustenance, maintenance

Every occurrence

  1. Leviticus 14:51 הַֽחַיִּ֑ים ha.chai.Yim · Describes something

    and he shall take the cedar wood, and the hyssop, and the scarlet, and the living bird, and dip them in the blood of the slain bird, and in the running water, and sprinkle the house seven times:

  2. Leviticus 14:52 הַֽחַיִּ֑ים ha.chai.Yim · Describes something

    and he shall cleanse the house with the blood of the bird, and with the running water, and with the living bird, and with the cedar wood, and with the hyssop, and with the scarlet:

  3. Leviticus 14:52 הַחַיָּ֗ה ha.chai.Yah · Describes something

    and he shall cleanse the house with the blood of the bird, and with the running water, and with the living bird, and with the cedar wood, and with the hyssop, and with the scarlet:

  4. Leviticus 14:53 הַֽחַיָּ֛ה ha.chai.Yah · Describes something

    but he shall let got the living bird out of the city into the open field: so shall he make atonement for the house; and it shall be clean.

  5. Leviticus 15:13 חַיִּ֖ים chai.Yim · Describes something

    And when he that hath an issue is cleansed of his issue, then he shall number to himself seven days for his cleansing, and wash his clothes; and he shall bathe his flesh in running water, and shall be clean.

  6. Leviticus 16:10 חַ֛י chai · Describes something

    But the goat, on which the lot fell for Azazel, shall be set alive before Jehovah, to make atonement for him, to send him away for Azazel into the wilderness.

  7. Leviticus 16:20 הֶחָֽי׃ he.Chai · Describes something

    And when he hath made an end of atoning for the holy place, and the tent of meeting, and the altar, he shall present the live goat:

  8. Leviticus 16:21 הַחַי֒ ha.Chai · Describes something

    and Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions, even all their sins; and he shall put them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a man that is in readiness into the wilderness:

  9. Leviticus 17:13 חַיָּ֛ה chai.Yah · A person, place or thing

    And whatsoever man there be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among them, who taketh in hunting any beast or bird that may be eaten; he shall pour out the blood thereof, and cover it with dust.

  10. Leviticus 18:18 בְּחַיֶּֽיהָ׃ be.chai.Yei.ha · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And thou shalt not take a wife to her sister, to be a rival to her, to uncover her nakedness, besides the other in her life-time.

  11. Leviticus 25:7 וְלַֽחַיָּ֖ה ve.la.chai.Yah · A person, place or thing

    And for thy cattle, and for the beasts that are in thy land, shall all the increase thereof be for food.

  12. Leviticus 26:6 חַיָּ֤ה chai.Yah · A person, place or thing

    And I will give peace in the land, and ye shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid: and I will cause evil beasts to cease out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land.

  13. Leviticus 26:22 חַיַּ֤ת chai.Yat · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And I will send the beast of the field among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your ways shall become desolate.

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