חַי

chay · alive

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

English

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. Numbers 14:21 חַי־ chai- · Describes something

    but in very deed, as I live, and as all the earth shall be filled with the glory of Jehovah;

  2. Numbers 14:28 חַי־ chai- · Describes something

    Say unto them, As I live, saith Jehovah, surely as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you:

  3. Numbers 16:30 חַיִּ֖ים chai.Yim · Describes something

    But if Jehovah make a new thing, and the ground open its mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down alive into Sheol; then ye shall understand that these men have despised Jehovah.

  4. Numbers 16:33 חַיִּ֖ים chai.Yim · Describes something

    So they, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into Sheol: and the earth closed upon them, and they perished from among the assembly.

  5. Numbers 16:48 הַֽחַיִּ֑ים ha.chai.Yim · Describes something

    And he stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed.

  6. Numbers 19:17 חַיִּ֖ים chai.Yim · Describes something

    And for the unclean they shall take of the ashes of the burning of the sin-offering; and running water shall be put thereto in a vessel:

  7. Numbers 35:3 חַיָּתָֽם׃ chai.ya.Tam · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And the cities shall they have to dwell in; and their suburbs shall be for their cattle, and for their substance, and for all their beasts.

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