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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. 1 Samuel 15:8חָ֑י · alive
    He captured Agag king of Amalek alive, but devoted all the others to destruction with the sword.
  2. 1 Samuel 17:26חַיִּֽים׃ · of the living
    David asked the men who were standing with him, “What will be done for the man who kills this Philistine and removes this disgrace from Israel? Just who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?”
  3. 1 Samuel 17:36חַיִּֽים׃ס · of the living
    Your servant has killed lions and bears; this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, for he has defied the armies of the living God.”
  4. 1 Samuel 17:46וּלְחַיַּ֣ת · and the creatures
    This day the LORD will deliver you into my hand. This day I will strike you down, cut off your head, and give the carcasses of the Philistine army to the birds of the air and the creatures of the earth. Then the whole world will know that there is a God in Israel.
  5. 1 Samuel 17:55חֵֽי־ · live
    As Saul had watched David going out to confront the Philistine, he said to Abner the commander of the army, “Abner, whose son is this young man?” “As surely as you live, O king,” Abner replied, “I do not know.”
  6. 1 Samuel 18:18חַיַּ֔י · is my family
    And David said to Saul, “Who am I, and what is my family or my father’s clan in Israel, that I should become the son-in-law of the king?”
  7. 1 Samuel 19:6חַי־ · lives
    Saul listened to the voice of Jonathan and swore an oath: “As surely as the LORD lives, David will not be put to death.”
  8. 1 Samuel 20:3חַי־ · lives; וְחֵ֣י · yourself live
    But David again vowed, “Your father knows very well that I have found favor in your eyes, and he has said, ‘Jonathan must not know of this, or he will be grieved.’ As surely as the LORD lives and as you yourself live, there is but a step between me and death.”
  9. 1 Samuel 20:14חָ֑י · I live
    And as long as I live, treat me with the LORD’s loving devotion, that I may not die,
  10. 1 Samuel 20:21חַי־ · lives
    Then I will send a boy and say, ‘Go, find the arrows!’ Now, if I expressly say to him, ‘Look, the arrows are on this side of you; bring them,’ then come, because as surely as the LORD lives, it is safe for you, and there is no danger.
  11. 1 Samuel 20:31חַ֣י · lives
    For as long as the son of Jesse lives on this earth, neither you nor your kingdom shall be established. Now send for him and bring him to me, for he must surely die!”
  12. 1 Samuel 25:6לֶחָ֑י · Long life to you
    …and say to him, ‘Long life to you, and peace to you and to your house and to all that belongs to you.
  13. 1 Samuel 25:26חַי־ · lives; וְחֵֽי־ · yourself live
    Now, my lord, as surely as the LORD lives and you yourself live, since the LORD has held you back from bloodshed and from avenging yourself with your own hand, may your enemies and those who seek harm for my lord be like Nabal.
  14. 1 Samuel 25:29הַחַיִּ֗ים · of the living
    And should someone pursue you and seek your life, then the life of my lord will be bound securely by the LORD your God in the bundle of the living. But He shall fling away the lives of your enemies like stones from a sling.
  15. 1 Samuel 25:34חַי־ · lives
    Otherwise, as surely as the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, who has restrained me from harming you, if you had not come quickly to meet me, then surely no male belonging to Nabal would have been left alive by morning light.”
  16. 1 Samuel 26:10חַי־ · lives
    David added, “As surely as the LORD lives, the LORD Himself will strike him down; either his day will come and he will die, or he will go into battle and perish.
  17. 1 Samuel 26:16חַי־ · lives
    This thing you have done is not good. As surely as the LORD lives, all of you deserve to die, since you did not protect your lord, the LORD’s anointed. Now look around. Where are the king’s spear and water jug that were by his head?”
  18. 1 Samuel 28:10חַי־ · lives
    Then Saul swore to her by the LORD: “As surely as the LORD lives, no punishment shall come upon you for this.”
  19. 1 Samuel 29:6חַי־ · lives
    So Achish summoned David and told him, “As surely as the LORD lives, you have been upright, and it seems right in my sight that you should march in and out with me in the army, because I have found no fault in you from the day you came to me until this day. But you are not good in the sight of the leaders.
  20. 2 Samuel 1:23בְּחַיֵּיהֶ֔ם · in life
    Saul and Jonathan, beloved and delightful in life, were not divided in death. They were swifter than eagles; they were stronger than lions.
  21. 2 Samuel 2:27חַ֚י · lives
    “As surely as God lives,” Joab replied, “if you had not spoken up, the troops would have continued pursuing their brothers until morning.”
  22. 2 Samuel 4:9חַי־ · lives
    But David answered Rechab and his brother Baanah, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, “As surely as the LORD lives, who has redeemed my life from all distress,
  23. 2 Samuel 11:11חַיֶּ֙ךָ֙ · As surely as you live; וְחֵ֣י · lives
    Uriah answered, “The ark and Israel and Judah are dwelling in tents, and my master Joab and his soldiers are camped in the open field. How can I go to my house to eat and drink and sleep with my wife? As surely as you live, and as your soul lives, I will not do such a thing!”
  24. 2 Samuel 12:5חַי־ · lives
    David burned with anger against the man and said to Nathan: “As surely as the LORD lives, the man who did this deserves to die!
  25. 2 Samuel 12:18חַ֗י · was alive
    On the seventh day the child died. But David’s servants were afraid to tell him that the child was dead, for they said, “Look, while the child was alive, we spoke to him, and he would not listen to us. So how can we tell him the child is dead? He may even harm himself.”
  26. 2 Samuel 12:21חַי֙ · was alive
    “What is this you have done?” his servants asked. “While the child was alive, you fasted and wept, but when he died, you got up and ate.”
  27. 2 Samuel 12:22חַ֔י · was alive
    David answered, “While the child was alive, I fasted and wept, for I said, ‘Who knows? The LORD may be gracious to me and let him live.’
  28. 2 Samuel 14:11חַי־ · lives
    “Please,” she replied, “may the king invoke the LORD your God to prevent the avenger of blood from increasing the devastation, so that my son may not be destroyed!” “As surely as the LORD lives,” he vowed, “not a hair of your son’s head will fall to the ground.”
  29. 2 Samuel 14:19חֵֽי־ · live
    So the king asked, “Is the hand of Joab behind all this?” The woman answered, “As surely as you live, my lord the king, no one can turn to the right or to the left from anything that my lord the king says. Yes, your servant Joab is the one who gave me orders; he told your maidservant exactly what to say.
  30. 2 Samuel 15:21חַי־ · lives; וְחֵי֙ · lives; לְחַיִּ֔ים · it means life
    But Ittai answered the king, “As surely as the LORD lives, and as my lord the king lives, wherever my lord the king may be, whether it means life or death, there will your servant be!”
  31. 2 Samuel 18:14חַ֖י · alive
    But Joab declared, “I am not going to wait like this with you!” And he took three spears in his hand and thrust them through the heart of Absalom while he was still alive in the oak tree.
  32. 2 Samuel 18:18בְחַיָּו · During his lifetime
    During his lifetime, Absalom had set up for himself a pillar in the King’s Valley, for he had said, “I have no son to preserve the memory of my name.” So he gave the pillar his name, and to this day it is called Absalom’s Monument.
  33. 2 Samuel 19:6חַי֙ · were alive
    You love those who hate you and hate those who love you! For you have made it clear today that the commanders and soldiers mean nothing to you. I know today that if Absalom were alive and all of us were dead, it would have pleased you!
  34. 2 Samuel 19:34חַיַּ֔י · of my life [remain]
    But Barzillai replied, “How many years of my life remain, that I should go up to Jerusalem with the king?
  35. 2 Samuel 21:10חַיַּ֥ת · the beasts
    And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and spread it out for herself on a rock. From the beginning of the harvest until the rain from heaven poured down on the bodies, she did not allow the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.
  36. 2 Samuel 22:47חַי־ · lives
    The LORD lives, and blessed be my Rock! And may God, the Rock of my salvation, be exalted—
  37. 2 Samuel 23:13וְחַיַּ֣ת · while a company
    At harvest time, three of the thirty chief men went down to David at the cave of Adullam, while a company of Philistines was encamped in the Valley of Rephaim.
  38. 2 Samuel 23:20חַי · of valor
    And Benaiah son of Jehoiada was a man of valor from Kabzeel, a man of many exploits. He struck down two champions of Moab, and on a snowy day he went down into a pit and killed a lion.
  39. 1 Kings 1:29חַי־ · lives
    And the king swore an oath, saying, “As surely as the LORD lives, who has redeemed my life from all distress,
  40. 1 Kings 2:24חַי־ · lives
    And now, as surely as the LORD lives—the One who established me, who set me on the throne of my father David, and who founded for me a dynasty as He promised—surely Adonijah shall be put to death today!”
  41. 1 Kings 3:22הַחַי֙ · the living one [is]; הֶחָ֑י · and the living one [is]
    “No,” said the other woman, “the living one is my son and the dead one is your son.” But the first woman insisted, “No, the dead one is yours and the living one is mine.” So they argued before the king.
  42. 1 Kings 3:23הַחַ֖י · is alive; הֶחָֽי׃פ · is alive
    Then the king replied, “This woman says, ‘My son is alive and yours is dead,’ but that woman says, ‘No, your son is dead and mine is alive.’”
  43. 1 Kings 3:25הַחַ֖י · the living
    …and the king declared, “Cut the living child in two and give half to one and half to the other.”