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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. Leviticus 16:10חַ֛י · alive
    But the goat chosen by lot as the scapegoat shall be presented alive before the LORD to make atonement by sending it into the wilderness as the scapegoat.
  2. Leviticus 16:20הֶחָֽי׃ · the live
    When Aaron has finished purifying the Most Holy Place, the Tent of Meeting, and the altar, he is to bring forward the live goat.
  3. Leviticus 16:21הַחַי֒ · of the live
    Then he is to lay both hands on the head of the live goat and confess over it all the iniquities and rebellious acts of the Israelites in regard to all their sins. He is to put them on the goat’s head and send it away into the wilderness by the hand of a man appointed for the task.
  4. Leviticus 17:13חַיָּ֛ה · a wild
    And if any Israelite or foreigner living among them hunts down a wild animal or bird that may be eaten, he must drain its blood and cover it with dirt.
  5. Leviticus 18:18בְּחַיֶּֽיהָ׃ · while your wife is still alive
    You must not take your wife’s sister as a rival wife and have sexual relations with her while your wife is still alive.
  6. Leviticus 25:7וְלַֽחַיָּ֖ה · and the wild animals
    …and for your livestock and the wild animals in your land. All its growth may serve as food.
  7. Leviticus 26:6חַיָּ֤ה · animals
    And I will give peace to the land, and you will lie down with nothing to fear. I will rid the land of dangerous animals, and no sword will pass through your land.
  8. Leviticus 26:22חַיַּ֤ת · animals
    I will send wild animals against you to rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and reduce your numbers, until your roads lie desolate.
  9. Numbers 14:21חַי־ · live
    “Yet as surely as I live and as surely as the whole earth is filled with the glory of the LORD,
  10. Numbers 14:28חַי־ · live
    So tell them: As surely as I live, declares the LORD, I will do to you exactly as I heard you say.
  11. Numbers 16:30חַיִּ֖ים · alive
    But if the LORD brings about something unprecedented, and the earth opens its mouth and swallows them and all that belongs to them so that they go down alive into Sheol, then you will know that these men have treated the LORD with contempt.”
  12. Numbers 16:33חַיִּ֖ים · alive
    They went down alive into Sheol with all they owned. The earth closed over them, and they vanished from the assembly.
  13. Numbers 16:48הַֽחַיִּ֑ים · the living
    He stood between the living and the dead, and the plague was halted.
  14. Numbers 19:17חַיִּ֖ים · and pour fresh
    For the purification of the unclean person, take some of the ashes of the burnt sin offering, put them in a jar, and pour fresh water over them.
  15. Numbers 35:3חַיָּתָֽם׃ · their other livestock
    The cities will be for them to live in, and the pasturelands will be for their herds, their flocks, and all their other livestock.
  16. Deuteronomy 4:4חַיִּ֥ים · [are] alive
    But you who held fast to the LORD your God are alive to this day, every one of you.
  17. Deuteronomy 4:9חַיֶּ֑יךָ · long as you live
    Only be on your guard and diligently watch yourselves, so that you do not forget the things your eyes have seen, and so that they do not slip from your heart as long as you live. Teach them to your children and grandchildren.
  18. Deuteronomy 4:10חַיִּים֙ · live
    The day you stood before the LORD your God at Horeb, the LORD said to me, “Gather the people before Me to hear My words, so that they may learn to fear Me all the days they live on the earth, and that they may teach them to their children.”
  19. Deuteronomy 5:3חַיִּֽים׃ · of us who are alive
    He did not make this covenant with our fathers, but with all of us who are alive here today.
  20. Deuteronomy 5:26חַיִּ֜ים · of the living
    For who of all flesh has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the fire, as we have, and survived?
  21. Deuteronomy 6:2חַיֶּ֑יךָ · of your lives
    …so that you and your children and grandchildren may fear the LORD your God all the days of your lives by keeping all His statutes and commandments that I give you, and so that your days may be prolonged.
  22. Deuteronomy 7:22חַיַּ֥ת · animals
    The LORD your God will drive out these nations before you little by little. You will not be enabled to eliminate them all at once, or the wild animals would multiply around you.
  23. Deuteronomy 12:1חַיִּ֖ים · live
    These are the statutes and ordinances you must be careful to follow all the days you live in the land that the LORD, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess.
  24. Deuteronomy 16:3חַיֶּֽיךָ׃ · of your life
    You must not eat leavened bread with it; for seven days you are to eat with it unleavened bread, the bread of affliction, because you left the land of Egypt in haste—so that you may remember for the rest of your life the day you left the land of Egypt.
  25. Deuteronomy 17:19חַיָּ֑יו · of his life
    It is to remain with him, and he is to read from it all the days of his life, so that he may learn to fear the LORD his God by carefully observing all the words of this instruction and these statutes.
  26. Deuteronomy 28:66חַיֶּ֔יךָ · So your life; בְּחַיֶּֽיךָ׃ · of survival
    So your life will hang in doubt before you, and you will be afraid night and day, never certain of survival.
  27. Deuteronomy 30:6חַיֶּֽיךָ׃ · you may live
    The LORD your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, and you will love Him with all your heart and with all your soul, so that you may live.
  28. Deuteronomy 30:15הַֽחַיִּ֖ים · life
    See, I have set before you today life and prosperity, as well as death and disaster.
  29. Deuteronomy 30:19הַחַיִּ֤ים · you life; בַּֽחַיִּ֔ים · life
    I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you today that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing. Therefore choose life, so that you and your descendants may live,
  30. Deuteronomy 30:20חַיֶּ֙יךָ֙ · your life
    …and that you may love the LORD your God, obey Him, and hold fast to Him. For He is your life, and He will prolong your life in the land that the LORD swore to give to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”
  31. Deuteronomy 31:13חַיִּים֙ · live
    Then their children who do not know the law will listen and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as you live in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess.”
  32. Deuteronomy 31:27חַ֨י · alive
    For I know how rebellious and stiff-necked you are. If you are already rebelling against the LORD while I am still alive, how much more will you rebel after my death!
  33. Deuteronomy 32:40חַ֥י · live
    For I lift up My hand to heaven and declare: As surely as I live forever,
  34. Deuteronomy 32:47חַיֵּיכֶ֑ם · are your life
    For they are not idle words to you, because they are your life, and by them you will live long in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess.”
  35. Joshua 1:5חַיֶּ֑יךָ · of your life
    No one shall stand against you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so will I be with you; I will never leave you nor forsake you.
  36. Joshua 3:10חַ֖י · the living
    He continued, “This is how you will know that the living God is among you and that He will surely drive out before you the Canaanites, Hittites, Hivites, Perizzites, Girgashites, Amorites, and Jebusites.
  37. Joshua 4:14חַיָּֽיו׃פ · of his life
    On that day the LORD exalted Joshua in the sight of all Israel, and they revered him all the days of his life, just as they had revered Moses.
  38. Joshua 8:23חָ֑י · alive
    But they took the king of Ai alive and brought him to Joshua.
  39. Judges 8:19חַי־ · lives
    “They were my brothers,” Gideon replied, “the sons of my mother! As surely as the LORD lives, if you had let them live, I would not kill you.”
  40. Judges 16:30בְּחַיָּֽיו׃ · in his life
    Samson said, “Let me die with the Philistines.” Then he pushed with all his might, and the temple fell on the lords and all the people in it. So in his death he killed more than he had killed in his life.
  41. Ruth 2:20הַחַיִּ֖ים · the living
    Then Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, “May he be blessed by the LORD, who has not withdrawn His kindness from the living or the dead.” Naomi continued, “The man is a close relative. He is one of our kinsman-redeemers.”
  42. Ruth 3:13חַי־ · lives
    Stay here tonight, and in the morning, if he wants to redeem you, good. Let him redeem you. But if he does not want to redeem you, as surely as the LORD lives, I will. Now lie here until morning.”
  43. 1 Samuel 1:11חַיָּ֔יו · of his life
    And she made a vow, saying, “O LORD of Hosts, if only You will look upon the affliction of Your maidservant and remember me, not forgetting Your maidservant but giving her a son, then I will dedicate him to the LORD all the days of his life, and no razor shall ever touch his head.”
  44. 1 Samuel 1:26חֵ֥י · live
    “Please, my lord,” said Hannah, “as surely as you live, my lord, I am the woman who stood here beside you praying to the LORD.
  45. 1 Samuel 2:15חָֽי׃ · raw
    Even before the fat was burned, the servant of the priest would come and say to the man who was sacrificing, “Give the priest some meat to roast, because he will not accept boiled meat from you, but only raw.”
  46. 1 Samuel 7:15חַיָּֽיו׃ · of his life
    So Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life.
  47. 1 Samuel 14:39חַי־ · lives
    As surely as the LORD who saves Israel lives, even if it is my son Jonathan, he must die!” But not one of the troops said a word.
  48. 1 Samuel 14:45חַי־ · lives
    But the people said to Saul, “Must Jonathan die—he who accomplished such a great deliverance for Israel? Never! As surely as the LORD lives, not a hair of his head will fall to the ground, for with God’s help he has accomplished this today.” So the people rescued Jonathan, and he did not die.