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. Genesis 3:24 הַֽחַיִּֽים׃ ס Ha.chai.Yim · A person, place or thing

    So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden the Cherubim, and the flame of a sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.

  2. Genesis 6:17 חַיִּ֔ים chai.Yim · A person, place or thing

    And I, behold, I do bring the flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; everything that is in the earth shall die.

  3. Genesis 6:19 הָ֠חַי Ha.chai · Describes something

    And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female.

  4. Genesis 7:11 לְחַיֵּי־ le.chai.yei- · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.

  5. Genesis 7:14 הַֽחַיָּ֣ה ha.chai.Yah · A person, place or thing

    they, and every beast after its kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, every bird of every sort.

  6. Genesis 7:15 חַיִּֽים׃ chai.Yim · A person, place or thing

    And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh wherein is the breath of life.

  7. Genesis 7:21 וּבַ֣חַיָּ֔ה u.Va.chai.Yah · A person, place or thing

    And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both birds, and cattle, and beasts, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man:

  8. Genesis 7:22 חַיִּ֜ים chai.Yim · A person, place or thing

    all in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, of all that was on the dry land, died.

  9. Genesis 8:1 הַֽחַיָּה֙ ha.chai.Yah · A person, place or thing

    And God remembered Noah, and all the beasts, and all the cattle that were with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters assuaged;

  10. Genesis 8:17 הַחַיָּ֨ה ha.chai.Yah · A person, place or thing

    Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee of all flesh, both birds, and cattle, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.

  11. Genesis 8:19 הַֽחַיָּ֗ה ha.chai.Yah · A person, place or thing

    every beast, every creeping thing, and every bird, whatsoever moveth upon the earth, after their families, went forth out of the ark.

  12. Genesis 8:21 חַ֖י chai · Describes something

    And Jehovah smelled the sweet savor; and Jehovah said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake, for that the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more everything living, as I have done.

  13. Genesis 9:2 חַיַּ֣ת chai.Yat · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every bird of the heavens; with all wherewith the ground teemeth, and all the fishes of the sea, into your hand are they delivered.

  14. Genesis 9:3 חַ֔י Chai · Describes something

    Every moving thing that liveth shall be food for you; as the green herb have I given you all.

  15. Genesis 9:5 חַיָּ֖ה chai.Yah · A person, place or thing

    And surely your blood, the blood of your lives, will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it: and at the hand of man, even at the hand of every man's brother, will I require the life of man.

  16. Genesis 9:10 הַֽחַיָּה֙ ha.chai.Yah · Describes something

    and with every living creature that is with you, the birds, the cattle, and every beast of the earth with you; of all that go out of the ark, even every beast of the earth.

  17. Genesis 9:10 חַיַּ֥ת chai.Yat · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    and with every living creature that is with you, the birds, the cattle, and every beast of the earth with you; of all that go out of the ark, even every beast of the earth.

  18. Genesis 9:10 חַיַּ֥ת chai.Yat · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    and with every living creature that is with you, the birds, the cattle, and every beast of the earth with you; of all that go out of the ark, even every beast of the earth.

  19. Genesis 9:12 חַיָּ֖ה chai.Yah · Describes something

    And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:

  20. Genesis 9:15 חַיָּ֖ה chai.Yah · Describes something

    and I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.

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