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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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Isaiah 49:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Lift up your eyes and look around. They all gather together; they come to you. As surely as I live,” declares the LORD, “you will wear them all as jewelry and put them on like a bride.
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Isaiah 53:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
By oppression and judgment He was taken away, and who can recount His descendants? For He was cut off from the land of the living; He was stricken for the transgression of My people.
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Isaiah 56:9 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Come, all you beasts of the field; eat greedily, all you beasts of the forest.
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Isaiah 57:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
You are wearied by your many journeys, but you did not say, “There is no hope!” You found renewal of your strength; therefore you did not grow weak.
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Jeremiah 2:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living water, and they have dug their own cisterns—broken cisterns that cannot hold water.
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Jeremiah 4:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
and if you can swear, ‘As surely as the LORD lives,’ in truth, in justice, and in righteousness, then the nations will be blessed by Him, and in Him they will glory.”
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Jeremiah 5:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Although they say, ‘As surely as the LORD lives,’ they are swearing falsely.”
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Jeremiah 8:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And wherever I have banished them, the remnant of this evil family will choose death over life,” declares the LORD of Hosts.
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Jeremiah 10:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But the LORD is the true God; He is the living God and eternal King. The earth quakes at His wrath, and the nations cannot endure His indignation.
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Jeremiah 11:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence
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.”
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Jeremiah 12:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
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Jeremiah 12:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
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Jeremiah 16:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
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.’
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Jeremiah 16:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
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Jeremiah 17:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
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Jeremiah 21:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
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Jeremiah 22:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“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.
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Jeremiah 23:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
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.’
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Jeremiah 23:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
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.”
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Jeremiah 23:36 · BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
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Jeremiah 27:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
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Jeremiah 28:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
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.’”
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Jeremiah 38:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
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.”
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Jeremiah 44:26 · BSB · 1 occurrence
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.’
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Jeremiah 46:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
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Jeremiah 52:33 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So Jehoiachin changed out of his prison clothes, and he dined regularly at the king’s table for the rest of his life.
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Jeremiah 52:34 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And the king of Babylon provided Jehoiachin a daily portion for the rest of his life, until the day of his death.
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Lamentations 3:39 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Why should any mortal man complain, in view of his sins?
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Lamentations 3:53 · BSB · 1 occurrence
They dropped me alive into a pit and cast stones upon me.
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Lamentations 3:58 · BSB · 1 occurrence
You defend my cause, O Lord; You redeem my life.
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Ezekiel 1:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
and within it was the form of four living creatures. And this was their appearance: They had a human form,
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Ezekiel 1:13 · BSB · 2 occurrences
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.
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Ezekiel 1:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The creatures were darting back and forth as quickly as flashes of lightning.
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Ezekiel 1:15 · BSB · 2 occurrences
When I looked at the living creatures, I saw a wheel on the ground beside each creature with its four faces.
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Ezekiel 1:19 · BSB · 2 occurrences
So as the living creatures moved, the wheels moved beside them, and when the creatures rose from the ground, the wheels also rose.
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Ezekiel 1:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
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Ezekiel 1:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
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Ezekiel 1:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Spread out above the heads of the living creatures was the likeness of an awesome expanse, gleaming like crystal.
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Ezekiel 3:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
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Ezekiel 5:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
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Ezekiel 5:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence
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.”
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Ezekiel 7:13 · BSB · 3 occurrences
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.
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Ezekiel 10:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the cherubim rose upward. These were the living creatures I had seen by the River Kebar.
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Ezekiel 10:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
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Ezekiel 10:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
These were the living creatures I had seen beneath the God of Israel by the River Kebar, and I knew that they were cherubim.
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Ezekiel 14:15 · BSB · 2 occurrences
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,
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Ezekiel 14:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
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Ezekiel 14:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
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Ezekiel 14:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
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Ezekiel 14:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence
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?
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