חַי (chay) means “alive” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: khah'-ee Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
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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חַי · chay · kinsfolk
kinsfolk
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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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חַיָּה · chay.yah · community
community
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חַיִּים · chay.yim · life
1) life (abstract emphatic) 1a) life 1b) sustenance, maintenance
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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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Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| 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 |
| 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 |
Page 6 of 9. 449 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
Many are my enemies without cause, and many hate me without reason.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 38.20
My soul thirsts for God, the living God. When shall I come and appear in God’s presence?
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 42.3
The LORD decrees His loving devotion by day, and at night His song is with me as a prayer to the God of my life.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 42.9
Though in his lifetime he blesses his soul—and men praise you when you prosper—
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 49.19
for every beast of the forest is Mine—the cattle on a thousand hills.
Read word by wordSurely God will bring you down to everlasting ruin; He will snatch you up and tear you away from your tent; He will uproot you from the land of the living. Selah
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 52.7
Let death seize them by surprise; let them go down to Sheol alive, for evil is with them in their homes.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 55.16
For You have delivered my soul from death, and my feet from stumbling, that I may walk before God in the light of life.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 56.14
Before your pots can feel the burning thorns—whether green or dry—He will sweep them away.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 58.10
Because Your loving devotion is better than life, my lips will glorify You.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 63.4
So I will bless You as long as I live; in Your name I will lift my hands.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 63.5
For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. Hear, O God, my voice of complaint; preserve my life from dread of the enemy.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 64.2
He preserves our lives and keeps our feet from slipping.
Read word by wordYour flock settled therein; O God, from Your bounty You provided for the poor.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 68.11
Rebuke the beast in the reeds, the herd of bulls among the calves of the nations, until it submits, bringing bars of silver. Scatter the nations who delight in war.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 68.31
May they be blotted out of the Book of Life and not listed with the righteous.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 69.29
Do not deliver the soul of Your dove to beasts; do not forget the lives of Your afflicted forever.
Read word by wordHe cleared a path for His anger; He did not spare them from death but delivered their lives to the plague.
Read word by wordThey have given the corpses of Your servants as food to the birds of the air, the flesh of Your saints to the beasts of the earth.
Read word by wordMy soul longs, even faints, for the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 84.3
For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draws near to Sheol.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 88.4
who redeems your life from the Pit and crowns you with loving devotion and compassion,
Read word by wordThey give drink to every beast of the field; the wild donkeys quench their thirst.
Read word by wordYou bring darkness, and it becomes night, when all the beasts of the forest prowl.
Read word by wordHere is the sea, vast and wide, teeming with creatures beyond number, living things both great and small.
Read word by wordI will sing to the LORD all my life; I will sing praise to my God while I have my being.
Read word by wordI will walk before the LORD in the land of the living.
Read word by wordwhen their anger flared against us, then they would have swallowed us alive,
Read word by wordMay the LORD bless you from Zion, that you may see the prosperity of Jerusalem all the days of your life,
Read word by wordIt is like the dew of Hermon falling on the mountains of Zion. For there the LORD has bestowed the blessing of life forevermore.
Read word by wordI cry to You, O LORD: “You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living.”
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 142.6
Do not bring Your servant into judgment, for no one alive is righteous before You.
Read word by wordFor the enemy has pursued my soul, crushing my life to the ground, making me dwell in darkness like those long since dead.
Read word by wordYou open Your hand and satisfy the desire of every living thing.
Read word by wordI will praise the LORD all my life; I will sing praises to my God while I have my being.
Read word by wordwild animals and all cattle, crawling creatures and flying birds,
Read word by wordlet us swallow them alive like Sheol, and whole like those descending into the Pit.
Read word by wordNone who go to her return or negotiate the paths of life.
Read word by wordfor they will add length to your days, years and peace to your life.
Read word by wordShe is a tree of life to those who embrace her, and those who lay hold of her are blessed.
Read word by wordThey will be life to your soul and adornment to your neck.
Read word by wordListen, my son, and receive my words, and the years of your life will be many.
Read word by wordHold on to instruction; do not let go. Guard it, for it is your life.
Read word by wordFor they are life to those who find them, and health to the whole body.
Read word by wordGuard your heart with all diligence, for from it flow springs of life.
Read word by wordShe does not consider the path of life; she does not know that her ways are unstable.
Read word by wordFor this commandment is a lamp, this teaching is a light, and the reproofs of discipline are the way to life,
Read word by wordFor whoever finds me finds life and obtains the favor of the LORD.
Read word by wordFor through wisdom your days will be multiplied, and years will be added to your life.
Read word by wordThe mouth of the righteous is a fountain of life, but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence.
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