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 · 401–450 of 498 · BSB
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.
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.
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.’
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.
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.
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.
“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.
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.’
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.”
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.
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.
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.’”
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.”
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.’
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.
So Jehoiachin changed out of his prison clothes, and he dined regularly at the king’s table for the rest 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.
Why should any mortal man complain, in view of his sins?
They dropped me alive into a pit and cast stones upon me.
You defend my cause, O Lord; You redeem my life.
and within it was the form of four living creatures. And this was their appearance: They had a human form,
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.
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.
The creatures were darting back and forth as quickly as flashes of lightning.
When I looked at the living creatures, I saw a wheel on the ground beside each creature with its four faces.
When I looked at the living creatures, I saw a wheel on the ground beside each creature with its four faces.
So as the living creatures moved, the wheels moved beside them, and when the creatures rose from the ground, the wheels also rose.
So as the living creatures moved, the wheels moved beside them, and when the creatures rose from the ground, the wheels also rose.
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.
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.
Spread out above the heads of the living creatures was the likeness of an awesome expanse, gleaming like crystal.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
Then the cherubim rose upward. These were the living creatures I had seen by the River Kebar.
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.
These were the living creatures I had seen beneath the God of Israel by the River Kebar, and I knew that they were cherubim.
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,
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,
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.
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.
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.
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?
As surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, your sister Sodom and her daughters never did as you and your daughters have done.
‘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.
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.
As surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, you will no longer quote this proverb in Israel.
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