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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. Psalms 58:10

    Before your pots can feel the thorns, He will sweep it away with a whirlwind, the raw and the burning alike.

    חַ֥י chai “alive”

  2. Psalms 69:29

    Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.

    חַיִּ֑ים chai.Yim “life”

  3. Psalms 84:3

    My soul yearneth, yea, even pineth for the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh sing for joy unto the living God.

    חָֽי׃ Chai “living”

  4. Psalms 116:9

    I shall walk before the LORD in the lands of the living.

    הַֽחַיִּֽים׃ (חַיִּֽים) chai.Yim “living”

  5. Psalms 124:3

    Then they had swallowed us up alive, when their wrath was kindled against us;

    חַיִּ֣ים chai.Yim “alive”

  6. Psalms 142:6

    I have cried unto Thee, O LORD; I have said: 'Thou art my refuge, my portion in the land of the living.'

    הַֽחַיִּים׃ (חַיִּים) chai.yim “living”

  7. Psalms 143:2

    And enter not into judgment with Thy servant; for in Thy sight shall no man living be justified.

    חָֽי׃ Chai “living [person]”

  8. Psalms 145:16

    Thou openest Thy hand, and satisfiest every living thing with favour.

    חַ֣י chai “living [thing]”

  9. Proverbs 1:12

    Let us swallow them up alive as the grave, and whole, as those that go down into the pit;

    חַיִּ֑ים chai.Yim “alive”

  10. Ecclesiastes 4:2

    Wherefore I praised the dead that are already dead more than the living that are yet alive;

    הַ֣חַיִּ֔ים (חַיִּ֔ים) chai.Yim “living”חַיִּ֖ים chai.Yim “[were] alive”

  11. Ecclesiastes 4:15

    I saw all the living that walk under the sun, that they were with the child, the second, that was to stand up in his stead.

    הַ֣חַיִּ֔ים (חַיִּ֔ים) chai.Yim “living”

  12. Ecclesiastes 6:8

    For what advantage hath the wise more than the fool? or the poor man that hath understanding, in walking before the living?

    הַחַיִּֽים׃ (חַיִּֽים) chai.Yim “living”

  13. Ecclesiastes 7:2

    It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting; for that is the end of all men, and the living will lay it to his heart.

    וְהַחַ֖י (חַ֖י) Chai “living person”

  14. Ecclesiastes 9:4

    For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope; for a living dog is better than a dead lion.

    הַחַיִּ֖ים (חַיִּ֖ים) chai.Yim “living”חַי֙ chai “living”

  15. Ecclesiastes 9:5

    For the living know that they shall die; but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

    הַֽחַיִּ֛ים (חַיִּ֛ים) chai.Yim “living”

  16. Song of Songs 4:15

    Thou art a fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and flowing streams from Lebanon.

    חַיִּ֑ים chai.Yim “living”

  17. Isaiah 8:19

    And when they shall say unto you: 'Seek unto the ghosts and the familiar spirits, that chirp and that mutter; should not a people seek unto their God? on behalf of the living unto the dead

    הַחַיִּ֖ים (חַיִּ֖ים) chai.Yim “living”

  18. Isaiah 37:4

    It may be the LORD thy God will hear the words of Rab-shakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to taunt the living God, and will rebuke the words which the LORD thy God hath heard; wherefore make prayer for the remnant that is left.'

    חַ֔י Chai “living”

  19. Isaiah 37:17

    Incline Thine ear, O LORD, and hear; open Thine eyes, O LORD, and see; and hear all the words of Sennacherib, who hath sent to taunt the living God.

    חָֽי׃ Chai “living”

  20. Isaiah 38:11

    I said: I shall not see the LORD, even the LORD in the land of the living; I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.

    הַחַיִּ֑ים (חַיִּ֑ים) chai.Yim “living”

  21. Isaiah 38:19

    The living, the living, he shall praise Thee, as I do this day; the father to the children shall make known Thy truth.

    חַ֥י chai “[the] living”חַ֛י chai “[the] living”

  22. Isaiah 49:18

    Lift up thine eyes round about, and behold: all these gather themselves together, and come to thee. As I live, saith the LORD, thou shalt surely clothe thee with them all as with an ornament, and gird thyself with them, like a bride.

    חַי־ chai- “[by] [the] life”

  23. Isaiah 53:8

    By oppression and judgment he was taken away, and with his generation who did reason? for he was cut off out of the land of the living, for the transgression of my people to whom the stroke was due.

    חַיִּ֔ים chai.Yim “living [people]”

  24. Jeremiah 2:13

    For My people have committed two evils: they have forsaken Me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.

    חַיִּ֗ים chai.Yim “living”

  25. Jeremiah 4:2

    And wilt swear: 'As the LORD liveth' in truth, in justice, and in righteousness; then shall the nations bless themselves by Him, and in Him shall they glory.

    חַי־ chai- “[by] [the] life”