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חַי

chay

khah'-ee

alive

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

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

Rendered in the KJV as

[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.

  • 498
    occurrencesin the Old Testament
  • 29 of 39
    Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
  • 199
    inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 498 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 199

  • חַי־65
  • חַיִּ֑ים22
  • חַיִּֽים׃16
  • חַיַּ֥ת14
  • חָֽי׃10
  • חַיִּ֖ים10
  • חַיַּ֣ת10
  • חַ֖י9
  • חָ֑י9
  • חַיֵּ֣י9
  • חַיֶּֽיךָ׃7
  • חַיִּ֔ים7

and 187 more spellings in the ledger below.

How it is rendered · 100

  • [by] [the] life60
  • living43
  • life38
  • the living34
  • alive23
  • life his18
  • life my17
  • the animal of16
  • [the] animal[s] of13
  • [by] [the] life of12
  • [the] life of12
  • life your11

The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 52

  • adjective · masculine singular111
  • adjective · masculine plural49
  • noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)39
  • noun · masculine plural36
  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular17
  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular16
  • the definite article (“the”) + adjective · masculine plural16
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular16
  • the definite article (“the”) + adjective · masculine singular15
  • adjective · feminine singular13
  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular13
  • adjective · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)12
Show the grammar codes as tagged
  • HAamsa · 111
  • HAampa · 49
  • HNcfsc · 39
  • HNcmpa · 36
  • HNcmpc/Sp1bs · 17
  • HNcmpc/Sp3ms · 16
  • HTd/Aampa · 16
  • HTd/Ncfsa · 16
  • HTd/Aamsa · 15
  • HAafsa · 13
  • HNcmpc/Sp2ms · 13
  • HAamsc · 12

All 498, in canonical order

The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

Genesis carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.

Genesis66 occurrences
Exodus9 occurrences
Leviticus33 occurrences
Numbers7 occurrences
Deuteronomy21 occurrences
Joshua4 occurrences
Judges2 occurrences
Ruth2 occurrences
1 Samuel26 occurrences
2 Samuel22 occurrences
1 Kings26 occurrences
2 Kings21 occurrences
2 Chronicles5 occurrences
Job24 occurrences
Psalms51 occurrences
Proverbs34 occurrences
Ecclesiastes21 occurrences
Song of Solomon1 occurrence
Isaiah19 occurrences
Jeremiah23 occurrences
Lamentations3 occurrences
Ezekiel59 occurrences
Daniel3 occurrences
Hosea6 occurrences
Amos2 occurrences
Jonah3 occurrences
Zephaniah3 occurrences
Zechariah1 occurrence
Malachi1 occurrence

Same headword in Strong's

Hebrew words spelled חַי

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), CC BY 4.0 — their grammar codes written out in English here, and shown as tagged under each list. Dictionary: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).