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. Proverbs 1:12 חַיִּ֑ים chai.Yim · Describes something

    Let us swallow them up alive as Sheol, And whole, as those that go down into the pit;

  2. Proverbs 2:19 חַיִּֽים׃ chai.Yim · A person, place or thing

    None that go unto her return again, Neither do they attain unto the paths of life:

  3. Proverbs 3:2 חַיִּ֑ים chai.Yim · A person, place or thing

    For length of days, and years of life, And peace, will they add to thee.

  4. Proverbs 3:18 חַיִּ֣ים chai.Yim · A person, place or thing

    She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: And happy is every one that retaineth her.

  5. Proverbs 3:22 חַיִּ֣ים chai.Yim · A person, place or thing

    So shall they be life unto thy soul, And grace to thy neck.

  6. Proverbs 4:10 חַיִּֽים׃ chai.Yim · A person, place or thing

    Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; And the years of thy life shall be many.

  7. Proverbs 4:13 חַיֶּֽיךָ׃ chai.Yei.kha · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    Take fast hold of instruction; Let her not go: Keep her; For she is thy life.

  8. Proverbs 4:22 חַיִּ֣ים chai.Yim · A person, place or thing

    For they are life unto those that find them, And health to all their flesh.

  9. Proverbs 4:23 חַיִּֽים׃ chai.Yim · A person, place or thing

    Keep thy heart with all diligence; For out of it are the issues of life.

  10. Proverbs 5:6 חַ֭יִּים Chai.yim · A person, place or thing

    So that she findeth not the level path of life: Her ways are unstable, and she knoweth it not.

  11. Proverbs 6:23 חַ֝יִּ֗ים chai.Yim · A person, place or thing

    For the commandment is a lamp; And the law is light; And reproofs of instruction are the way of life:

  12. Proverbs 8:35 חַיִּ֑ים chai.Yim · A person, place or thing

    For whoso findeth me findeth life, And shall obtain favor of Jehovah.

  13. Proverbs 9:11 חַיִּֽים׃ chai.Yim · A person, place or thing

    For by me thy days shall be multiplied, And the years of thy life shall be increased.

  14. Proverbs 10:11 חַ֭יִּים Chai.yim · A person, place or thing

    The mouth of the righteous is a fountain of life; But violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.

  15. Proverbs 10:16 לְחַיִּ֑ים le.chai.Yim · A person, place or thing

    The labor of the righteous tendeth to life; The increase of the wicked, to sin.

  16. Proverbs 10:17 לְ֭חַיִּים Le.chai.yim · A person, place or thing

    He is in the way of life that heedeth correction; But he that forsaketh reproof erreth.

  17. Proverbs 11:19 לְחַיִּ֑ים le.chai.Yim · A person, place or thing

    He that is stedfast in righteousness shall attain unto life; And he that pursueth evil doeth it to his own death.

  18. Proverbs 11:30 חַיִּ֑ים chai.Yim · A person, place or thing

    The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; And he that is wise winneth souls.

  19. Proverbs 12:28 חַיִּ֑ים chai.Yim · A person, place or thing

    In the way of righteousness is life; And in the pathway thereof there is no death.

  20. Proverbs 13:12 חַ֝יִּ֗ים chai.Yim · A person, place or thing

    Hope deferred maketh the heart sick; But when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.

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