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 45:28 חָ֑י Chai · Describes something

    and Israel said, It is enough; Joseph my son is yet alive: I will go and see him before I die.

  2. Genesis 46:30 חָֽי׃ Chai · Describes something

    And Israel said unto Joseph, Now let me die, since I have seen thy face, that thou art yet alive.

  3. Genesis 47:8 חַיֶּֽיךָ׃ chai.Yei.kha · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How many are the days of the years of thy life?

  4. Genesis 47:9 חַיַּ֔י chai.Yai · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years: few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.

  5. Genesis 47:9 חַיֵּ֣י chai.Yei · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years: few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.

  6. Genesis 47:28 חַיָּ֔יו chai.Yav · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were a hundred forty and seven years.

  7. Exodus 1:14 חַיֵּיהֶ֜ם chai.yei.Hem · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    and they made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field, all their service, wherein they made them serve with rigor.

  8. Exodus 4:18 חַיִּ֑ים chai.Yim · Describes something

    And Moses went and returned to Jethro his father-in-law, and said unto him, Let me go, I pray thee, and return unto my brethren that are in Egypt, and see whether they be yet alive. And Jethro said to Moses, Go in peace.

  9. Exodus 6:16 חַיֵּ֣י chai.Yei · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And these are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations: Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari; and the years of the life of Levi were a hundred thirty and seven years.

  10. Exodus 6:18 חַיֵּ֣י chai.Yei · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And the sons of Kohath: Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel; and the years of the life of Kohath were a hundred thirty and three years.

  11. Exodus 6:20 חַיֵּ֣י chai.Yei · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And Amram took him Jochebed his father's sister to wife; and she bare him Aaron and Moses: and the years of the life of Amram were a hundred and thirty and seven years.

  12. Exodus 21:35 הַחַי֙ ha.Chai · Describes something

    And if one man's ox hurt another's, so that it dieth, then they shall sell the live ox, and divide the price of it; and the dead also they shall divide.

  13. Exodus 22:4 חַיִּ֑ים chai.Yim · Describes something

    If the theft be found in his hand alive, whether it be ox, or ass, or sheep; he shall pay double.

  14. Exodus 23:11 חַיַּ֣ת chai.Yat · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    but the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beast of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thy oliveyard.

  15. Exodus 23:29 חַיַּ֥ת chai.Yat · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    I will not drive them out from before thee in one year, lest the land become desolate, and the beasts of the field multiply against thee.

  16. Leviticus 5:2 חַיָּ֜ה chai.Yah · A person, place or thing

    Or if any one touch any unclean thing, whether it be the carcass of an unclean beast, or the carcass of unclean cattle, or the carcass of unclean creeping things, and it be hidden from him, and he be unclean, then he shall be guilty.

  17. Leviticus 11:2 הַֽחַיָּה֙ ha.chai.Yah · A person, place or thing

    Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, These are the living things which ye may eat among all the beasts that are on the earth.

  18. Leviticus 11:10 הַחַיָּ֖ה ha.chai.Yah · Describes something

    And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of all the living creatures that are in the waters, they are an abomination unto you,

  19. Leviticus 11:27 הַֽחַיָּה֙ ha.chai.Yah · A person, place or thing

    And whatsoever goeth upon its paws, among all beasts that go on all fours, they are unclean unto you: whoso toucheth their carcass shall be unclean until the even.

  20. Leviticus 11:46 הַֽחַיָּ֔ה ha.chai.Yah · Describes something

    This is the law of the beast, and of the bird, and of every living creature that moveth in the waters, and of every creature that creepeth upon the earth;

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