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חַי

chayaliveHow to read Hebrew
hebrewOld TestamentAdjective499 occurrences29 books450 verses

Definition

from H2421; 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
Traditional renderings: age, alive, appetite, (wild) beast, company, congregation, life(-time), live(-ly), living (creature, thing), maintenance, merry, multitude, (be) old, quick, raw, running, springing, troop.

In the Greek Old Testament

How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders חַי:

Usage patterns

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Occurrences

499 total
  1. Ezekiel 18:3חַי־ · I live
    As surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, you will no longer quote this proverb in Israel.
  2. Ezekiel 20:3חַי־ · I live
    “Son of man, speak to the elders of Israel and tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: Have you come to inquire of Me? As surely as I live, I will not be consulted by you, declares the Lord GOD.
  3. Ezekiel 20:31חַי־ · I live
    When you offer your gifts, sacrificing your sons in the fire, you continue to defile yourselves with all your idols to this day. So should I be consulted by you, O house of Israel? As surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I will not be consulted by you!
  4. Ezekiel 20:33חַי־ · I live
    As surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, with a strong hand, an outstretched arm, and outpoured wrath I will rule over you.
  5. Ezekiel 26:20חַיִּֽים׃ · of the living
    …then I will bring you down with those who descend to the Pit, to the people of antiquity. I will make you dwell in the earth below like the ancient ruins, with those who descend to the Pit, so that you will no longer be inhabited or set in splendor in the land of the living.
  6. Ezekiel 29:5לְחַיַּ֥ת · to the beasts
    I will leave you in the desert, you and all the fish of your streams. You will fall on the open field and will not be taken away or gathered for burial. I have given you as food to the beasts of the earth and the birds of the air.
  7. Ezekiel 31:6חַיַּ֣ת · the beasts
    All the birds of the air nested in its branches, and all the beasts of the field gave birth beneath its boughs; all the great nations lived in its shade.
  8. Ezekiel 31:13חַיַּ֥ת · the beasts
    All the birds of the air nested on its fallen trunk, and all the beasts of the field lived among its boughs.
  9. Ezekiel 32:4חַיַּ֥ת · the beasts
    I will abandon you on the land and hurl you into the open field. I will cause all the birds of the air to settle upon you, and all the beasts of the earth to eat their fill of you.
  10. Ezekiel 32:23חַיִּֽים׃ · of the living
    Her graves are set in the depths of the Pit, and her company is all around her grave. All of them are slain, fallen by the sword—those who once spread terror in the land of the living.
  11. Ezekiel 32:24חַיִּ֔ים · of the living
    Elam is there with all her multitudes around her grave. All of them are slain, fallen by the sword—those who went down uncircumcised to the earth below, who once spread their terror in the land of the living. They bear their disgrace with those who descend to the Pit.
  12. Ezekiel 32:25חַיִּ֗ים · of the living
    Among the slain they prepare a resting place for Elam with all her hordes, with her graves all around her. All of them are uncircumcised, slain by the sword, although their terror was once spread in the land of the living. They bear their disgrace with those who descend to the Pit. They are placed among the slain.
  13. Ezekiel 32:26חַיִּֽים׃ · of the living
    Meshech and Tubal are there with all their multitudes, with their graves all around them. All of them are uncircumcised, slain by the sword, because they spread their terror in the land of the living.
  14. Ezekiel 32:27חַיִּֽים׃ · of the living
    They do not lie down with the fallen warriors of old, who went down to Sheol with their weapons of war, whose swords were placed under their heads, whose shields rested on their bones, although the terror of the mighty was once in the land of the living.
  15. Ezekiel 32:32חַיִּ֑ים · of the living
    For I will spread My terror in the land of the living, so that Pharaoh and all his multitude will be laid to rest among the uncircumcised, with those slain by the sword, declares the Lord GOD.”
  16. Ezekiel 33:11חַי־ · live
    Say to them: ‘As surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that the wicked should turn from their ways and live. Turn! Turn from your evil ways! For why should you die, O house of Israel?’
  17. Ezekiel 33:15הַֽחַיִּים֙ · of life
    …if he restores a pledge, makes restitution for what he has stolen, and walks in the statutes of life without practicing iniquity—then he will surely live; he will not die.
  18. Ezekiel 33:27חַי־ · live; לַחַיָּ֥ה · by wild animals
    Tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘As surely as I live, those in the ruins will fall by the sword, those in the open field I will give to be devoured by wild animals, and those in the strongholds and caves will die by plague.
  19. Ezekiel 34:5חַיַּ֥ת · beasts
    They were scattered for lack of a shepherd, and when they were scattered they became food for all the wild beasts.
  20. Ezekiel 34:8חַי־ · live; חַיַּ֤ת · beast
    ‘As surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, because My flock lacks a shepherd and has become prey and food for every wild beast, and because My shepherds did not search for My flock but fed themselves instead,
  21. Ezekiel 34:25חַיָּֽה־ · animals
    I will make with them a covenant of peace and rid the land of wild animals, so that they may dwell securely in the wilderness and sleep in the forest.
  22. Ezekiel 34:28וְחַיַּ֥ת · and the beasts
    They will no longer be prey for the nations, and the beasts of the earth will not consume them. They will dwell securely, and no one will frighten them.
  23. Ezekiel 35:6חַי־ · live
    …therefore as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I will give you over to bloodshed and it will pursue you. Since you did not hate bloodshed, it will pursue you.
  24. Ezekiel 35:11חַי־ · live
    …therefore as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I will treat you according to the anger and jealousy you showed in your hatred against them, and I will make Myself known among them when I judge you.
  25. Ezekiel 38:20וְחַיַּ֣ת · the beasts
    The fish of the sea, the birds of the air, the beasts of the field, every creature that crawls upon the ground, and all mankind on the face of the earth will tremble at My presence. The mountains will be thrown down, the cliffs will collapse, and every wall will fall to the ground.
  26. Ezekiel 39:4וְחַיַּ֥ת · beast
    On the mountains of Israel you will fall—you and all your troops and the nations with you. I will give you as food to every kind of ravenous bird and wild beast.
  27. Ezekiel 39:17חַיַּ֣ת · beast
    And as for you, son of man, this is what the Lord GOD says: Call out to every kind of bird and to every beast of the field: ‘Assemble and come together from all around to the sacrificial feast that I am preparing for you, a great feast on the mountains of Israel. There you will eat flesh and drink blood.
  28. Ezekiel 47:9חַיָּ֣ה׀ · creatures
    Wherever the river flows, there will be swarms of living creatures and a great number of fish, because it flows there and makes the waters fresh; so wherever the river flows, everything will flourish.
  29. Daniel 8:4חַיּוֹת֙ · animal
    I saw the ram charging toward the west and the north and the south. No animal could stand against him, and there was no deliverance from his power. He did as he pleased and became great.
  30. Daniel 12:2לְחַיֵּ֣י · life
    And many who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, but others to shame and everlasting contempt.
  31. Daniel 12:7בְּחֵ֣י · by Him who lives
    And the man dressed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, raised his right hand and his left hand toward heaven, and I heard him swear by Him who lives forever, saying, “It will be for a time, and times, and half a time. When the power of the holy people has finally been shattered, all these things will be completed.”
  32. Hosea 1:10חָֽי׃ · of the living
    Yet the number of the Israelites will be like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or counted. And it will happen that in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not My people,’ they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’
  33. Hosea 2:12חַיַּ֥ת · and the beasts
    I will destroy her vines and fig trees, which she thinks are the wages paid by her lovers. So I will make them into a thicket, and the beasts of the field will devour them.
  34. Hosea 2:18חַיַּ֤ת · the beasts
    On that day I will make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field and the birds of the air and the creatures that crawl on the ground. And I will abolish bow and sword and battle in the land, and will make them lie down in safety.
  35. Hosea 4:3בְּחַיַּ֥ת · with the beasts
    Therefore the land mourns, and all who dwell in it will waste away with the beasts of the field and the birds of the air; even the fish of the sea disappear.
  36. Hosea 4:15חַי־ · lives
    Though you prostitute yourself, O Israel, may Judah avoid such guilt! Do not journey to Gilgal, do not go up to Beth-aven, and do not swear on oath, ‘As surely as the LORD lives!’
  37. Hosea 13:8חַיַּ֥ת · beast
    Like a bear robbed of her cubs I will attack them, and I will tear open their chests. There I will devour them like a lion, like a wild beast tearing them apart.
  38. Amos 8:14חֵ֤י · lives; וְחֵ֖י · lives
    Those who swear by the guilt of Samaria and say, ‘As surely as your god lives, O Dan,’ or, ‘As surely as the way of Beersheba lives’—they will fall, never to rise again.”
  39. Jonah 2:6חַיַּ֖י · my life
    To the roots of the mountains I descended; the earth beneath me barred me in forever! But You raised my life from the pit, O LORD my God!
  40. Jonah 4:3מֵחַיָּֽי׃ס · than to live
    And now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”
  41. Jonah 4:8מֵחַיָּֽי׃ · than to live
    As the sun was rising, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah’s head so that he grew faint and wished to die, saying, “It is better for me to die than to live.”
  42. Zephaniah 2:9חַי־ · live
    Therefore, as surely as I live,” declares the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, “surely Moab will be like Sodom and the Ammonites like Gomorrah—a place of weeds and salt pits, a perpetual wasteland. The remnant of My people will plunder them; the remainder of My nation will dispossess them.”
  43. Zephaniah 2:14חַיְתוֹ־ · creatures
    Herds will lie down in her midst, creatures of every kind. Both the desert owl and screech owl will roost atop her pillars. Their calls will sound from the window, but desolation will lie on the threshold, for He will expose the beams of cedar.
  44. Zephaniah 2:15לַֽחַיָּ֔ה · for beasts
    This carefree city that dwells securely, that thinks to herself: “I am it, and there is none besides me,” what a ruin she has become, a resting place for beasts. Everyone who passes by her hisses and shakes his fist.
  45. Zechariah 14:8חַיִּים֙ · living
    And on that day living water will flow out from Jerusalem, half of it toward the Eastern Sea and the other half toward the Western Sea, in summer and winter alike.
  46. Malachi 2:5הַֽחַיִּים֙ · [one] of life
    “My covenant with him was one of life and peace, which I gave to him; it called for reverence, and he revered Me and stood in awe of My name.