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H2416Aחַיchay

alivePart of speech: Hebrew Adjective

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Occurrences by book

  1. 28
  2. 3
  3. 23
  4. 6
  5. 8
  6. 2
  7. 1
  8. 2
  9. 22
  10. 15
  11. 22
  12. 18
  13. 1 Chronicles: 0
  14. 4
  15. Ezra: 0
  16. Nehemiah: 0
  17. Esther: 0
  18. 7
  19. 15
  20. 1
  21. 8
  22. 1
  23. 8
  24. 16
  25. 1
  26. 24
  27. 1
  28. 2
  29. Joel: 0
  30. 2
  31. Obadiah: 0
  32. Jonah: 0
  33. Micah: 0
  34. Nahum: 0
  35. Habakkuk: 0
  36. 1
  37. Haggai: 0
  38. 1
  39. Malachi: 0

Renderings

JPS Tanakh 1917 is not aligned yet, so there are no renderings to show.

Other meanings of H2416

  • H2416BחַיchaykinsfolkH:N-MOccurrences: 1
  • H2416Cחַיָּהchay.yahliving thingH:N-FOccurrences: 106
  • H2416Dחַיָּהchay.yahcommunityH:N-FOccurrences: 4
  • H2416Eחַיִּיםchay.yimlifeH:N-MOccurrences: 145

242 occurrences in 220 verses

With their references and text in JPS Tanakh 1917.

  1. Numbers 14:28

    Say unto them: As I live, saith the LORD, surely as ye have spoken in Mine ears, so will I do to you:

    חַי־ chai- “[by] [the] life”

  2. Numbers 16:30

    But if the LORD make a new thing, and the ground open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down alive into the pit, then ye shall understand that these men have despised the LORD.'

    חַיִּ֖ים chai.Yim “alive”

  3. Numbers 16:33

    So they, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into the pit; and the earth closed upon them, and they perished from among the assembly.

    חַיִּ֖ים chai.Yim “alive”

  4. Numbers 17:13

    And he stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed.

    הַֽחַיִּ֑ים (חַיִּ֑ים) chai.Yim “living”

  5. Numbers 19:17

    And for the unclean they shall take of the ashes of the burning of the purification from sin, and running water shall be put thereto in a vessel.

    חַיִּ֖ים chai.Yim “living”

  6. Deuteronomy 4:4

    But ye that did cleave unto the LORD your God are alive every one of you this day.

    חַיִּ֥ים chai.Yim “[are] alive”

  7. Deuteronomy 4:10

    the day that thou stoodest before the LORD thy God in Horeb, when the LORD said unto me: 'Assemble Me the people, and I will make them hear My words that they may learn to fear Me all the days that they live upon the earth, and that they may teach their

    חַיִּים֙ chai.Yim “[will be] alive”

  8. Deuteronomy 5:3

    The LORD made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day.

    חַיִּֽים׃ chai.Yim “alive”

  9. Deuteronomy 5:26

    Oh that they had such a heart as this alway, to fear Me, and keep all My commandments, that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever!

    חַיִּ֜ים chai.Yim “living”

  10. Deuteronomy 12:1

    These are the statutes and the ordinances, which ye shall observe to do in the land which the LORD, the God of thy fathers, hath given thee to possess it, all the days that ye live upon the earth.

    חַיִּ֖ים chai.Yim “[are] alive”

  11. Deuteronomy 31:13

    and that their children, who have not known, may hear, and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as ye live in the land whither ye go over the Jordan to possess it.'

    חַיִּים֙ chai.Yim “[will be] alive”

  12. Deuteronomy 31:27

    For I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck; behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, ye have been rebellious against the LORD; and how much more after my death?

    חַ֨י chai “[am] alive”

  13. Deuteronomy 32:40

    For I lift up My hand to heaven, and say: As I live for ever,

    חַ֥י chai “[am] living”

  14. Joshua 3:10

    And Joshua said: 'Hereby ye shall know that the living God is among you, and that He will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Hivite, and the Perizzite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the Jebusite.

    חַ֖י chai “living”

  15. Joshua 8:23

    And the king of Ai they took alive, and brought him to Joshua.

    חָ֑י Chai “alive”

  16. Judges 8:19

    And he said: 'They were my brethren, the sons of my mother; as the LORD liveth, if ye had saved them alive, I would not slay you.'

    חַי־ chai- “[by] [the] life”

  17. Ruth 2:20

    And Naomi said unto her daughter-in-law: 'Blessed be he of the LORD, who hath not left off His kindness to the living and to the dead.' And Naomi said unto her: 'The man is nigh of kin unto us, one of our near kinsmen.'

    הַחַיִּ֖ים (חַיִּ֖ים) chai.Yim “living”

  18. Ruth 3:13

    Tarry this night, and it shall be in the morning, that if he will perform unto thee the part of a kinsman, well; let him do the kinsman's part; but if he be not willing to do the part of a kinsman to thee, then will I do the part of a kinsman to thee, as

    חַי־ chai- “[by] [the] life”

  19. 1 Samuel 1:26

    And she said: 'Oh, my lord, as thy soul liveth, my lord, I am the woman that stood by thee here, praying unto the LORD.

    חֵ֥י chei “[by] [the] life of”

  20. 1 Samuel 2:15

    Yea, before the fat was made to smoke, the priest's servant came, and said to the man that sacrificed: 'Give flesh to roast for the priest; for he will not have sodden flesh of thee, but raw.'

    חָֽי׃ Chai “raw”

  21. 1 Samuel 14:39

    For, as the LORD liveth, who saveth Israel, though it be in Jonathan my son, he shall surely die.' But there was not a man among all the people that answered him.

    חַי־ chai- “[by] [the] life”

  22. 1 Samuel 14:45

    And the people said unto Saul: 'Shall Jonathan die, who hath wrought this great salvation in Israel? Far from it; as the LORD liveth, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground; for he hath wrought with God this day.' So the people rescued J

    חַי־ chai- “[by] [the] life”

  23. 1 Samuel 15:8

    And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.

    חָ֑י Chai “alive”

  24. 1 Samuel 17:26

    And David spoke to the men that stood by him, saying: 'What shall be done to the man that killeth this Philistine, and taketh away the taunt from Israel? for who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should have taunted the armies of the living God?'

    חַיִּֽים׃ chai.Yim “living”

  25. 1 Samuel 17:36

    Thy servant smote both the lion and the bear; and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, seeing he hath taunted the armies of the living God.'

    חַיִּֽים׃ chai.Yim “living”