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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. Jeremiah 11:19חַיִּ֔ים · of the living
    For I was like a gentle lamb led to slaughter; I did not know that they had plotted against me: “Let us destroy the tree with its fruit; let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be remembered no more.”
  2. Jeremiah 12:9חַיַּ֥ת · the beasts
    Is not My inheritance to Me like a speckled bird of prey with other birds of prey circling against her? Go, gather all the beasts of the field; bring them to devour her.
  3. Jeremiah 12:16חַי־ · lives
    And if they will diligently learn the ways of My people and swear by My name, saying, ‘As surely as the LORD lives’—just as they once taught My people to swear by Baal—then they will be established among My people.
  4. Jeremiah 16:14חַי־ · lives
    Yet behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when they will no longer say, ‘As surely as the LORD lives, who brought the Israelites up out of the land of Egypt.’
  5. Jeremiah 16:15חַי־ · lives
    Instead they will say, ‘As surely as the LORD lives, who brought the Israelites up out of the land of the north and all the other lands to which He had banished them.’ For I will return them to their land that I gave to their forefathers.
  6. Jeremiah 17:13חַיִּ֖ים · of living
    O LORD, the hope of Israel, all who abandon You will be put to shame. All who turn away will be written in the dust, for they have abandoned the LORD, the fountain of living water.
  7. Jeremiah 21:8הַחַיִּ֖ים · of life
    Furthermore, you are to tell this people that this is what the LORD says: ‘Behold, I set before you the way of life and the way of death.
  8. Jeremiah 22:24חַי־ · live
    “As surely as I live,” declares the LORD, “even if you, Coniah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, were a signet ring on My right hand, I would pull you off.
  9. Jeremiah 23:7חַי־ · lives
    So behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when they will no longer say, ‘As surely as the LORD lives, who brought the Israelites up out of the land of Egypt.’
  10. Jeremiah 23:8חַי־ · lives
    Instead they will say, ‘As surely as the LORD lives, who brought and led the descendants of the house of Israel up out of the land of the north and all the other lands to which He had banished them.’ Then they will dwell once more in their own land.”
  11. Jeremiah 23:36חַיִּ֔ים · of the living
    But refer no more to the burden of the LORD, for each man’s word becomes the burden, so that you pervert the words of the living God, the LORD of Hosts, our God.
  12. Jeremiah 27:6חַיַּ֣ת · the beasts
    So now I have placed all these lands under the authority of My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. I have even made the beasts of the field subject to him.
  13. Jeremiah 28:14חַיַּ֥ת · of the beasts
    For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘I have put a yoke of iron on the neck of all these nations to make them serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and they will serve him. I have even given him control of the beasts of the field.’”
  14. Jeremiah 38:16חַי־ · lives
    But King Zedekiah swore secretly to Jeremiah, “As surely as the LORD lives, who has given us this life, I will not kill you, nor will I deliver you into the hands of these men who are seeking your life.”
  15. Jeremiah 44:26חַי־ · lives
    Nevertheless, hear the word of the LORD, all you people of Judah living in Egypt: Behold, I have sworn by My great name, says the LORD, that never again will any man of Judah living in the land of Egypt invoke My name or say, ‘As surely as the Lord GOD lives.’
  16. Jeremiah 46:18חַי־ · live
    As surely as I live, declares the King, whose name is the LORD of Hosts, there will come one who is like Tabor among the mountains and like Carmel by the sea.
  17. Jeremiah 52:33חַיָּֽו׃ · of his life
    So Jehoiachin changed out of his prison clothes, and he dined regularly at the king’s table for the rest of his life.
  18. Jeremiah 52:34חַיָּֽיו׃ · of his life
    And the king of Babylon provided Jehoiachin a daily portion for the rest of his life, until the day of his death.
  19. Lamentations 3:39חָ֔י · should any mortal
    Why should any mortal man complain, in view of his sins?
  20. Lamentations 3:53חַיָּ֔י · alive
    They dropped me alive into a pit and cast stones upon me.
  21. Lamentations 3:58חַיָּֽי׃ · my life
    You defend my cause, O Lord; You redeem my life.
  22. Ezekiel 1:5חַיּ֑וֹת · living creatures
    …and within it was the form of four living creatures. And this was their appearance: They had a human form,
  23. Ezekiel 1:13הַחַיּ֜וֹת · of the living creatures; הַחַיּ֑וֹת · the living creatures
    In the midst of the living creatures was the appearance of glowing coals of fire, or of torches. Fire moved back and forth between the living creatures; it was bright, and lightning flashed out of it.
  24. Ezekiel 1:14וְהַחַיּ֖וֹת · The creatures
    The creatures were darting back and forth as quickly as flashes of lightning.
  25. Ezekiel 1:15הַחַיּ֑וֹת · at the living creatures; הַחַיּ֖וֹת · each creature
    When I looked at the living creatures, I saw a wheel on the ground beside each creature with its four faces.
  26. Ezekiel 1:19הַֽחַיּ֔וֹת · So as the living creatures; הַֽחַיּוֹת֙ · and when the creatures
    So as the living creatures moved, the wheels moved beside them, and when the creatures rose from the ground, the wheels also rose.
  27. Ezekiel 1:20הַחַיָּ֖ה · of the living creatures
    Wherever the spirit would go, they would go, and the wheels would rise alongside them, because the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels.
  28. Ezekiel 1:21הַחַיָּ֖ה · of the living creatures
    When the creatures moved, the wheels moved; when the creatures stood still, the wheels stood still; and when the creatures rose from the ground, the wheels rose alongside them, because the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels.
  29. Ezekiel 1:22הַחַיָּה֙ · of the living creatures
    Spread out above the heads of the living creatures was the likeness of an awesome expanse, gleaming like crystal.
  30. Ezekiel 3:13הַחַיּ֗וֹת · of the living creatures
    It was the sound of the wings of the living creatures brushing against one another and the sound of the wheels beside them, a great rumbling sound.
  31. Ezekiel 5:11חַי־ · live
    Therefore as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, because you have defiled My sanctuary with all your detestable idols and abominations, I Myself will withdraw My favor; I will not look upon you with pity, nor will I spare you.
  32. Ezekiel 5:17וְחַיָּ֤ה · beasts
    I will send famine and wild beasts against you, and they will leave you childless. Plague and bloodshed will sweep through you, and I will bring a sword against you. I, the LORD, have spoken.”
  33. Ezekiel 7:13בַּחַיִּ֖ים · both remain alive; חַיָּתָ֑ם; חַיָּת֖וֹ · his life
    The seller will surely not recover what he sold while both remain alive. For the vision concerning the whole multitude will not be revoked, and because of their iniquity, not one of them will preserve his life.
  34. Ezekiel 10:15הַחַיָּ֔ה · were the living creatures
    Then the cherubim rose upward. These were the living creatures I had seen by the River Kebar.
  35. Ezekiel 10:17הַחַיָּ֖ה · of the living creatures
    When the cherubim stood still, the wheels also stood still, and when they ascended, the wheels ascended with them, for the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels.
  36. Ezekiel 10:20הַחַיָּ֗ה · were the living creatures
    These were the living creatures I had seen beneath the God of Israel by the River Kebar, and I knew that they were cherubim.
  37. Ezekiel 14:15חַיָּ֥ה · beasts; הַחַיָּֽה׃ · of the beasts
    Or if I send wild beasts through the land to leave it childless and desolate, with no man passing through it for fear of the beasts,
  38. Ezekiel 14:16חַי־ · as I live
    …then as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, even if these three men were in it, they could not deliver their own sons or daughters. They alone would be delivered, but the land would be desolate.
  39. Ezekiel 14:18חַי־ · as I live
    …then as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, even if these three men were in it, they could not deliver their own sons or daughters. They alone would be delivered.
  40. Ezekiel 14:20חַי־ · as I live
    …then as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, even if Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, they could not deliver their own sons or daughters. Their righteousness could deliver only themselves.
  41. Ezekiel 14:21וְחַיָּ֤ה · beasts
    For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘How much worse will it be when I send against Jerusalem My four dire judgments—sword, famine, wild beasts, and plague—in order to cut off from it both man and beast?
  42. Ezekiel 16:48חַי־ · live
    As surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, your sister Sodom and her daughters never did as you and your daughters have done.
  43. Ezekiel 17:16חַי־ · live
    ‘As surely as I live,’ declares the Lord GOD, ‘he will die in Babylon, in the land of the king who enthroned him, whose oath he despised and whose covenant he broke.
  44. Ezekiel 17:19חַי־ · I live
    Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘As surely as I live, I will bring down upon his head My oath that he despised and My covenant that he broke.