H2416 - חַי (chay)

H2416 חַי (chay) khah'-ee

Hebrew

Strong's Definition

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

Derivation: from H2421 (חָיָה);

KJV Usage: [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.

TWOT Reference: 644a

Outline of Biblical Usage

adj

1) living, alive

1a) green (of vegetation)

1b) flowing, fresh (of water)

1c) lively, active (of man)

1d) reviving (of the springtime)

n m

2) relatives

3) life (abstract emphatic)

3a) life

3b) sustenance, maintenance

n f

4) living thing, animal

4a) animal

4b) life

4c) appetite

4d) revival, renewal

5) community

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G444 G979 G2062 G2222 G2225 G2226 G2342 G2342 G2349 G2934 G5001 G5074 G5199 G5590

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

חַי chay BDB Definition: 1) living, alive (adjective) 1a) green (of vegetation) 1b) flowing, fresh (of water) 1c) lively, active (of man) 1d) reviving (of the springtime) 2) relatives (noun masculine) 3) life (abstract emphatic) (noun masculine) 3a) life 3b) sustenance, maintenance 4) living thing, animal (noun feminine) 4a) animal 4b) life 4c) appetite 4d) revival, renewal 5) community (noun feminine) Part of Speech: see above in Definition A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: from H2421 Same Word by TWOT Number: 644a Total KJV Occurrences: 512

Bible Occurrences (449)

1:20 1:21 1:24 1:25 1:28 1:30 2:7 2:9 2:19 2:20 3:1 3:14 3:17 3:20 3:22 3:24 6:17 6:19 7:11 7:14 7:15 7:21 7:22 8:1 8:17 8:19 8:21 9:2 9:3 9:5 9:10 9:12 9:15 9:16 18:10 18:14 23:1 25:6 25:7 25:17 26:19 27:46 37:20 37:33 42:15 42:16 43:7 43:27 43:28 45:3 45:26 45:28 46:30 47:8 47:9 47:28

1:14 4:18 6:16 6:18 6:20 21:35 22:4 23:11 23:29

5:2 11:2 11:10 11:27 11:46 11:47 13:10 13:14 13:15 13:16 14:4 14:5 14:6 14:7 14:50 14:51 14:52 14:53 15:13 16:10 16:20 16:21 17:13 18:18 25:7 26:6 26:22

14:21 14:28 16:30 16:33 16:48 19:17 35:3

4:4 4:9 4:10 5:3 5:26 6:2 7:22 12:1 16:3 17:19 28:66 30:6 30:15 30:19 30:20 31:13 31:27 32:40 32:47

1:5 3:10 4:14 8:23

8:19 16:30

2:20 3:13

1:11 1:26 2:15 7:15 14:39 14:45 15:8 17:26 17:36 17:46 17:55 18:18 19:6 20:3 20:14 20:21 20:31 25:6 25:26 25:29 25:34 26:10 26:16 28:10 29:6

1:23 2:27 4:9 11:11 12:5 12:18 12:21 12:22 14:11 14:19 15:21 18:14 18:18 19:6 19:34 21:10 22:47 23:13 23:20

1:29 2:24 3:22 3:23 3:25 3:26 3:27 4:21 8:40 11:34 12:6 15:5 15:6 17:1 17:12 17:23 18:10 18:15 20:18 20:32 21:15 22:14

2:2 2:4 2:6 3:14 4:16 4:17 4:30 5:16 5:20 7:12 10:14 14:9 19:4 19:16 25:29 25:30

6:31 10:6 18:13 25:12 25:18

3:20 5:22 5:23 7:7 9:21 10:1 10:12 12:10 19:25 24:22 27:2 28:13 28:21 30:23 33:18 33:20 33:22 33:28 33:30 36:14 37:8 38:39 39:15 40:20

7:5 16:11 17:14 18:46 21:4 23:6 26:9 27:1 27:4 27:13 30:5 31:10 34:12 36:9 38:19 42:2 42:8 49:18 50:10 52:5 55:15 56:13 58:9 63:3 63:4 64:1 66:9 68:10 68:30 69:28 74:19 78:50 79:2 84:2 88:3 103:4 104:11 104:20 104:25 104:33 116:9 124:3 128:5 133:3 142:5 143:2 143:3 145:16 146:2 148:10

1:12 2:19 3:2 3:18 3:22 4:10 4:13 4:22 4:23 5:6 6:23 8:35 9:11 10:11 10:16 10:17 11:19 11:30 12:28 13:12 13:14 14:27 14:30 15:4 15:24 15:31 16:15 16:22 18:21 19:23 21:21 22:4 27:27 31:12

2:3 2:17 3:12 4:2 4:15 5:18 5:20 6:8 6:12 7:2 8:15 9:3 9:4 9:5 9:9 10:19

4:3 8:19 35:9 37:4 37:17 38:11 38:12 38:16 38:19 38:20 40:16 43:20 46:1 49:18 53:8 56:9 57:10

2:13 4:2 5:2 8:3 10:10 11:19 12:9 12:16 16:14 16:15 17:13 21:8 22:24 23:7 23:8 23:36 27:6 28:14 38:16 44:26 46:18 52:33 52:34

3:39 3:53 3:58

1:5 1:13 1:14 1:15 1:19 1:20 1:21 1:22 3:13 5:11 5:17 7:13 10:15 10:17 10:20 14:15 14:16 14:18 14:20 14:21 16:48 17:16 17:19 18:3 20:3 20:31 20:33 26:20 29:5 31:6 31:13 32:4 32:23 32:24 32:25 32:26 32:27 32:32 33:11 33:15 33:27 34:5 34:8 34:25 34:28 35:6 35:11 38:20 39:4 39:17 47:9

8:4 12:2 12:7

1:10 2:12 2:18 4:3 4:15 13:8

8:14

2:6 4:3 4:8

2:9 2:14 2:15

14:8

2:5

Genesis 1:20

And God said, Let the waters teem with living... creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the sky.

Genesis 1:21

So God created the great sea creatures and every living thing that moves, [with] which the waters teemed according to their kinds, and every winged bird after its kind. And God saw that [it was] good.

Genesis 1:24

And God said, Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, land crawlers, and beasts of the earth according to their kinds. And it was so.

Genesis 1:25

God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and everything that crawls upon the earth according to its kind. And God saw that [it was] good.

Genesis 1:28

God blessed them and said to them, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that crawls upon the earth.

Genesis 1:30

And to every beast of the earth and every bird of the air and every creature that crawls upon the earth — everything that has the breath of life in it — [I have given] every green plant for food. And it was so.

Genesis 2:7

Then the LORD God formed man [from] the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.

Genesis 2:9

Out of the ground the LORD God gave growth to every tree that is pleasing to the eye and good for food. And in the middle of the garden [were] the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.