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chay H2416

חַי (chay) means “alive” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.

חַי Hebrew · H2416 498 tagged occurrences in 449 verses

Pronunciation guide: khah'-ee Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESH · H2416A

חַי · chay · alive

adj 1) living, alive 1a) green (of vegetation) 1b) flowing, fresh (of water) 1c) lively, active (of man) 1d) reviving (of the springtime) Aramaic equivalent: chay (חַי "living" H2417)

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TBESH · H2416B

חַי · chay · kinsfolk

kinsfolk

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TBESH · H2416C

חַיָּה · chay.yah · living thing

1) living thing, animal 1a) animal 1b) life 1c) appetite 1d) revival, renewal Aramaic equivalent: che.va (חֵיוָא "beast" H2423)

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TBESH · H2416D

חַיָּה · chay.yah · community

community

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TBESH · H2416E

חַיִּים · chay.yim · life

1) life (abstract emphatic) 1a) life 1b) sustenance, maintenance

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Strong’s Hebrew dictionary

from H2421 (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

KJV glosses: [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.

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How translators render H2416

Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.

BSB rendering counts
Rendering	Count
lives	55
alive	31
of life	28
live	27
of the living	21
life	20
the living	19
beast	15
of his life	13
the beasts	13
animals	9
living	9
my life	7
i live	6
of the living creatures	6
of your life	6
the live	6
lived	5
of my life	5
animal	4
beasts	4
living thing	4
was alive	4
as i live	3
is alive	3
leads to life	3
the raw	3
yourself live	3
all my life	2
and his life	2
and life	2
and the beasts	2
and the wild animals	2
creatures	2
fresh	2
his lifetime	2
in life	2
living creature	2
living creatures	2
of fresh	2
of living	2
of the beasts	2
raw	2
than to live	2
the fresh	2
the living creatures	2
there is life	2
to life	2
to the beasts	2
to your life	2
were the living creatures	2
wild animal	2
you beasts	2
your life	2
a live	1
a living	1
a wild	1
among the living	1
and beasts	1
and i will live	1
and made their lives	1
and my life	1
and nourishment	1
and pour fresh	1
and the creatures	1
and the fresh	1
and the live	1
and the living	1
and the living one is	1
and there is raw	1
and those	1
and when the creatures	1
are alive	1
are life	1
are your life	1
as long as i live	1
as surely as you live	1
at the living creatures	1
both remain alive	1
by him who lives	1
by wild animals	1
creature	1
during his lifetime	1
each creature	1
each living	1
finds life	1
for beasts	1
have you lived	1
his life	1
in fresh	1
in his life	1
in his lifetime	1
is in this life	1
is life	1
is my family	1
is the living	1
is your life	1
it means life	1
lasts a lifetime	1
life-giving	1
lived to be	1
living things	1
long as you live	1
long life to you	1
makes life	1
me	1
my own life	1
nor its animals	1
of abijams life	1
of her life	1
of my life remain	1
of our lives	1
of survival	1
of the live	1
of their lives	1
of us who are alive	1
of valor	1
of your lives	1
one of life	1
only the living	1
or beast	1
or my life	1
others	1
renewal	1
should any mortal	1
so as the living creatures	1
so that he	1
so your life	1
springs of life	1
than life	1
that lives	1
the animals	1
the beast	1
the creatures	1
the hunger	1
the lives	1
the living one is	1
the wild animals	1
their lives	1
their other livestock	1
these ones	1
to beasts	1
weigh down beasts	1
were alive	1
whether green	1
while a company	1
while they are alive	1
while they live	1
while your wife is still alive	1
who lived	1
wild animals	1
with the beasts	1
without cause	1
you life	1
you may live	1
your flock	1

KJV rendering counts
Rendering	Count
liveth	61
of life	32
i live	24
of the living	23
life	22
of his life	16
alive	13
the living	11
of thy life	10
beast	9
my life	9
beasts	7
of my life	7
of the life	7
them alive	5
yet alive	5
and the beasts	4
and the living	4
for the living	4
of the living creature	4
the beasts	4
and his life	3
and life	3
and to every beast	3
of living	3
quick	3
that liveth	3
the life	3
thy life	3
to every beast	3
to life	3
while he yet lived	3
all ye beasts	2
and the beast	2
and when the living creatures	2
between me and you and every living	2
by the life	2
every beast	2
every living	2
he yet alive	2
her the living	2
in his life	2
may live	2
nor the beasts	2
of all living	2
of every living thing	2
of the beasts	2
of the living creatures	2
old	2
over running	2
raw	2
than to live	2
the beast	2
the live	2
the living creature	2
the living creatures	2
the raw	2
to the beasts	2
was yet alive	2
a place for beasts	1
all the beasts	1
all the living	1
although they were yet alive	1
among all manner of beasts	1
among the living	1
among the living creatures	1
and above every beast	1
and all the beasts	1
and beast	1
and between the beast	1
and every beast	1
and every living	1
and every living thing	1
and for all their beasts	1
and for the beast	1
and in the running	1
and my life	1
and of any living	1
and of beast	1
and of every beast	1
and of every living	1
and of every living thing	1
and over every living thing	1
and running	1
and shall let the living	1
and the living creatures	1
and the troop	1
and their life	1
and thy life	1
and to the wild beasts	1
and with every living	1
and with the living	1
and with the running	1
any beast	1
any more every thing living	1
as for the living	1
as long as i live	1
became a living	1
beerlahairoi	1
before the living	1
behold while i am yet alive	1
beside the other in her life	1
both living	1
by him that liveth	1
did all the beasts	1
for a living	1
for all living	1
for every beast	1
for my life	1
for them with the beasts	1
had lived	1
have i to live	1
here alive	1
him the beasts	1
in his lifetime	1
in life	1
in running	1
in their lives	1
into a troop	1
is not alive	1
lest the beasts	1
live	1
lively	1
living	1
living creatures	1
maketh merry	1
me life	1
more than the living	1
nay but the living	1
neither shall the beast	1
nor my life	1
not the congregation	1
of every beast	1
of her all the beasts	1
of her life	1
of our life	1
of springing	1
of the live	1
of thee but raw	1
of their life	1
or if the raw	1
or life	1
over the running	1
rather than life	1
shall be upon every beast	1
shall my life	1
shall no man living	1
so shall they be life	1
so that his life	1
so that no beasts	1
so the whole age	1
than any beast	1
than life	1
that he may live	1
that my life	1
that the living	1
that they live	1
that they shall live	1
that thou mayest live	1
that ye live	1
the appetite	1
the company	1
the maintenance	1
thee while i live	1
their life	1
their lives	1
them and the living	1
then the beasts	1
they live	1
thou livest	1
though while he lived	1
thy congregation	1
to all the beasts	1
to all the living	1
to him that liveth	1
to the living	1
unto the beasts	1
unto the multitude	1
was with him of life	1
were upon the beasts	1
where all the beasts	1
wherefore doth a living	1
wherein all the beasts	1
while i live	1
while they live	1
whose the living	1
with the beasts	1
with thee every living thing	1
ye live	1
yet live	1
you life	1
your life	1

Verses containing H2416

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Deuteronomy 4:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
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Deuteronomy 4:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
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.”
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Deuteronomy 5:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
He did not make this covenant with our fathers, but with all of us who are alive here today.
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Deuteronomy 5:26 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For who of all flesh has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the fire, as we have, and survived?
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Deuteronomy 6:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
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Deuteronomy 7:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
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Deuteronomy 12:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
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Deuteronomy 16:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
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Deuteronomy 17:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
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Deuteronomy 28:66 · BSB · 2 occurrences
So your life will hang in doubt before you, and you will be afraid night and day, never certain of survival.
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Deuteronomy 30:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
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Deuteronomy 30:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
See, I have set before you today life and prosperity, as well as death and disaster.
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Deuteronomy 30:19 · BSB · 2 occurrences
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,
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Deuteronomy 30:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
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.”
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Deuteronomy 31:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
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.”
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Deuteronomy 31:27 · BSB · 1 occurrence
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!
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Deuteronomy 32:40 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For I lift up My hand to heaven and declare: As surely as I live forever,
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Deuteronomy 32:47 · BSB · 1 occurrence
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.”
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Joshua 1:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
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Joshua 3:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
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Joshua 4:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
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Joshua 8:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But they took the king of Ai alive and brought him to Joshua.
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Judges 8:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“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.”
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Judges 16:30 · BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
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Ruth 2:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
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.”
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Ruth 3:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
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.”
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1 Samuel 1:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
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.”
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1 Samuel 1:26 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“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.
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1 Samuel 2:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
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.”
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1 Samuel 7:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life.
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1 Samuel 14:39 · BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
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1 Samuel 14:45 · BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
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1 Samuel 15:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
He captured Agag king of Amalek alive, but devoted all the others to destruction with the sword.
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1 Samuel 17:26 · BSB · 1 occurrence
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?”
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1 Samuel 17:36 · BSB · 1 occurrence
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.”
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1 Samuel 17:46 · BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
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1 Samuel 17:55 · BSB · 1 occurrence
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.”
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1 Samuel 18:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
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?”
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1 Samuel 19:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Saul listened to the voice of Jonathan and swore an oath: “As surely as the LORD lives, David will not be put to death.”
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1 Samuel 20:3 · BSB · 2 occurrences
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.”
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1 Samuel 20:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And as long as I live, treat me with the LORD’s loving devotion, that I may not die,
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1 Samuel 20:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
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1 Samuel 25:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
and say to him, ‘Long life to you, and peace to you and to your house and to all that belongs to you.
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1 Samuel 25:26 · BSB · 2 occurrences
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.
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1 Samuel 25:29 · BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
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1 Samuel 25:34 · BSB · 1 occurrence
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.”
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1 Samuel 26:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
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1 Samuel 26:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
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?”
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1 Samuel 28:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Saul swore to her by the LORD: “As surely as the LORD lives, no punishment shall come upon you for this.”
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1 Samuel 29:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
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