Word study · Hebrew
חַי
chayH2416alive
Used 498 times in the tagged text.
H2416A · חַי · alive
What it means
- living, alive
Full dictionary entry (technical)
- 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)
H2416B · חַי · kinsfolk
Full dictionary entry (technical)
- kinsfolk
H2416C · חַיָּה · living thing
What it means
- living thing, animal
Full dictionary entry (technical)
- 1) living thing, animal
- 1a) animal
- 1b) life
- 1c) appetite
- 1d) revival, renewal
- Aramaic equivalent: che.va (חֵיוָא "beast" H2423)
H2416D · חַיָּה · community
Full dictionary entry (technical)
- community
H2416E · חַיִּים · life
What it means
- life
Full dictionary entry (technical)
- 1) life (abstract emphatic)
- 1a) life
- 1b) sustenance, maintenance
Same idea, other words · Life
Life in Scripture is more than being alive. In John's Gospel 'life' becomes a name for what Christ gives.
Where it appears
- Genesis66
- Exodus9
- Leviticus33
- Numbers7
- Deuteronomy21
- Joshua4
- Judges2
- Ruth2
- 1 Samuel26
- 2 Samuel22
- 1 Kings26
- 2 Kings21
- 2 Chronicles5
- Job24
- Psalms51
- Proverbs34
- Ecclesiastes21
- Song of Songs1
- Isaiah19
- Jeremiah23
- Lamentations3
- Ezekiel59
- Daniel3
- Hosea6
- Amos2
- Jonah3
- Zephaniah3
- Zechariah1
- Malachi1
Every use · 351–400 of 498 · BSB
The rewards of humility and the fear of the LORD are wealth and honor and life.
You will have plenty of goats’ milk to feed you— food for your household and nourishment for your maidservants.
She brings him good and not harm all the days of her life.
I sought to cheer my body with wine and to embrace folly—my mind still guiding me with wisdom—until I could see what was worthwhile for men to do under heaven during the few days of their lives.
So I hated life, because the work that is done under the sun was grievous to me. For everything is futile and a pursuit of the wind.
I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice and do good while they live,
So I admired the dead, who had already died, above the living, who are still alive.
So I admired the dead, who had already died, above the living, who are still alive.
I saw that all who lived and walked under the sun followed this second one, the youth who succeeded the king.
Here is what I have seen to be good and fitting: to eat and drink, and to find satisfaction in all the labor one does under the sun during the few days of life that God has given him—for this is his lot.
For a man seldom considers the days of his life, because God keeps him occupied with the joy of his heart.
What advantage, then, has the wise man over the fool? What gain comes to the poor man who knows how to conduct himself before others?
For who knows what is good for a man during the few days in which he passes through his fleeting life like a shadow? Who can tell a man what will come after him under the sun?
For who knows what is good for a man during the few days in which he passes through his fleeting life like a shadow? Who can tell a man what will come after him under the sun?
It is better to enter a house of mourning than a house of feasting, since death is the end of every man, and the living should take this to heart.
So I commended the enjoyment of life, because there is nothing better for a man under the sun than to eat and drink and be merry. For this joy will accompany him in his labor during the days of his life that God gives him under the sun.
This is an evil in everything that is done under the sun: There is one fate for everyone. Furthermore, the hearts of men are full of evil and madness while they are alive, and afterward they join the dead.
There is hope, however, for anyone who is among the living; for even a live dog is better than a dead lion.
There is hope, however, for anyone who is among the living; for even a live dog is better than a dead lion.
For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing. They have no further reward, because the memory of them is forgotten.
Enjoy life with your beloved wife all the days of the fleeting life that God has given you under the sun—all your fleeting days. For this is your portion in life and in your labor under the sun.
Enjoy life with your beloved wife all the days of the fleeting life that God has given you under the sun—all your fleeting days. For this is your portion in life and in your labor under the sun.
Enjoy life with your beloved wife all the days of the fleeting life that God has given you under the sun—all your fleeting days. For this is your portion in life and in your labor under the sun.
A feast is prepared for laughter, and wine makes life merry, but money is the answer for everything.
You are a garden spring, a well of fresh water flowing down from Lebanon.
Whoever remains in Zion and whoever is left in Jerusalem will be called holy— all in Jerusalem who are recorded among the living—
When men tell you to consult the spirits of the dead and the spiritists who whisper and mutter, shouldn’t a people consult their God instead? Why consult the dead on behalf of the living?
No lion will be there, and no vicious beast will go up on it. Such will not be found there, but the redeemed will walk upon it.
Perhaps the LORD your God will hear the words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to defy the living God, and He will rebuke him for the words that the LORD your God has heard. Therefore lift up a prayer for the remnant that still survives.”
Incline Your ear, O LORD, and hear; open Your eyes, O LORD, and see. Listen to all the words that Sennacherib has sent to defy the living God.
I said, “I will never again see the LORD, even the LORD, in the land of the living; I will no longer look on mankind with those who dwell in this world.
My dwelling has been picked up and removed from me like a shepherd’s tent. I have rolled up my life like a weaver; He cuts me off from the loom; from day until night You make an end of me.
O Lord, by such things men live, and in all of them my spirit finds life. You have restored me to health and have let me live.
The living, only the living, can thank You, as I do today; fathers will tell their children about Your faithfulness.
The living, only the living, can thank You, as I do today; fathers will tell their children about Your faithfulness.
The LORD will save me; we will play songs on stringed instruments all the days of our lives in the house of the LORD.
Lebanon is not sufficient for fuel, nor its animals enough for a burnt offering.
The beasts of the field will honor Me, the jackals and the ostriches, because I provide water in the wilderness and rivers in the desert, to give drink to My chosen people.
Bel crouches; Nebo cowers. Their idols weigh down beasts and cattle. The images you carry are burdensome, a load to the weary animal.
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.
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.
Come, all you beasts of the field; eat greedily, all you beasts of the forest.
Come, all you beasts of the field; eat greedily, all you beasts of the forest.
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.
“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.
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.”
Although they say, ‘As surely as the LORD lives,’ they are swearing falsely.”
And wherever I have banished them, the remnant of this evil family will choose death over life,” declares the LORD of Hosts.
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.
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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