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. Malachi 2:5 הַֽחַיִּים֙ ha.chai.Yim · A person, place or thing

    My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him that he might fear; and he feared me, and stood in awe of my name.

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