חַי

chay

Hebrew H2416 Adjective 499 occurrences in 450 verses

חַי alive

adj

1. living, alive

a. green (of vegetation)

b. flowing, fresh (of water)

c. lively, active (of man)

d. reviving (of the springtime)

Aramaic equivalent: chay (חַי "living" H2417)

Lexicon: STEPBible Tyndale House Brief Lexicons (TBESH / TBESG) (CC BY 4.0)

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Concordance 450 verses

Deuteronomy 4:9 חַיֶּ֑יךָ

Only be on your guard and diligently watch yourselves, so that you do not forget the things your eyes have seen, and so that they do not slip from your heart as long as you live. Teach them to your children and grandchildren.
Deuteronomy 4:10 חַיִּים֙

The day you stood before the LORD your God at Horeb, the LORD said to me, “Gather the people before Me to hear My words, so that they may learn to fear Me all the days they live on the earth, and that they may teach them to their children.”
Deuteronomy 5:3 חַיִּֽים׃

He did not make this covenant with our fathers, but with all of us who are alive here today.
Deuteronomy 5:26 חַיִּ֜ים

For who of all flesh has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the fire, as we have, and survived?
Deuteronomy 6:2 חַיֶּ֑יךָ

so that you and your children and grandchildren may fear the LORD your God all the days of your lives by keeping all His statutes and commandments that I give you, and so that your days may be prolonged.
Deuteronomy 7:22 חַיַּ֥ת

The LORD your God will drive out these nations before you little by little. You will not be enabled to eliminate them all at once, or the wild animals would multiply around you.
Deuteronomy 12:1 חַיִּ֖ים

These are the statutes and ordinances you must be careful to follow all the days you live in the land that the LORD, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess.
Deuteronomy 16:3 חַיֶּֽיךָ׃

You must not eat leavened bread with it; for seven days you are to eat with it unleavened bread, the bread of affliction, because you left the land of Egypt in haste—so that you may remember for the rest of your life the day you left the land of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 17:19 חַיָּ֑יו

It is to remain with him, and he is to read from it all the days of his life, so that he may learn to fear the LORD his God by carefully observing all the words of this instruction and these statutes.
Deuteronomy 28:66 חַיֶּ֔יךָבְּחַיֶּֽיךָ׃

So your life will hang in doubt before you, and you will be afraid night and day, never certain of survival.
Deuteronomy 30:6 חַיֶּֽיךָ׃

The LORD your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, and you will love Him with all your heart and with all your soul, so that you may live.
Deuteronomy 30:15 הַֽחַיִּ֖ים

See, I have set before you today life and goodness, as well as death and disaster.
Deuteronomy 30:19 הַחַיִּ֤יםבַּֽחַיִּ֔ים

I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you today that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing. Therefore choose life, so that you and your descendants may live,
Deuteronomy 30:20 חַיֶּ֙יךָ֙

and that you may love the LORD your God, obey Him, and hold fast to Him. For He is your life, and He will prolong your life in the land that the LORD swore to give to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”
Deuteronomy 31:13 חַיִּים֙

Then their children who do not know the law will listen and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as you live in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess.”
Deuteronomy 31:27 חַ֨י

For I know how rebellious and stiff-necked you are. If you are already rebelling against the LORD while I am still alive, how much more will you rebel after my death!
Deuteronomy 32:40 חַ֥י

For I lift up My hand to heaven and declare: As surely as I live forever,
Deuteronomy 32:47 חַיֵּיכֶ֑ם

For they are not idle words to you, because they are your life, and by them you will live long in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess.”
Joshua 1:5 חַיֶּ֑יךָ

No one shall stand against you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so will I be with you; I will never leave you nor forsake you.
Joshua 3:10 חַ֖י

He continued, “This is how you will know that the living God is among you and that He will surely drive out before you the Canaanites, Hittites, Hivites, Perizzites, Girgashites, Amorites, and Jebusites.
Joshua 4:14 חַיָּֽיו׃פ

On that day the LORD exalted Joshua in the sight of all Israel, and they revered him all the days of his life, just as they had revered Moses.
Joshua 8:23 חָ֑י

But they took the king of Ai alive and brought him to Joshua.
Judges 8:19 חַי־

“They were my brothers,” Gideon replied, “the sons of my mother! As surely as the LORD lives, if you had let them live, I would not kill you.”
Judges 16:30 בְּחַיָּֽיו׃

Samson said, “Let me die with the Philistines.” Then he pushed with all his might, and the temple fell on the lords and all the people in it. So in his death he killed more than he had killed in his life.
Ruth 2:20 הַחַיִּ֖ים

Then Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, “May he be blessed by the LORD, who has not withdrawn His kindness from the living or the dead.” Naomi continued, “The man is a close relative. He is one of our kinsman-redeemers.”
Ruth 3:13 חַי־

Stay here tonight, and in the morning, if he wants to redeem you, good. Let him redeem you. But if he does not want to redeem you, as surely as the LORD lives, I will. Now lie here until morning.”
1 Samuel 1:11 חַיָּ֔יו

And she made a vow, pleading, “O LORD of Hosts, if only You will look upon the affliction of Your maidservant and remember me, not forgetting Your maidservant but giving her a son, then I will dedicate him to the LORD all the days of his life, and no razor shall ever come over his head.”
1 Samuel 1:26 חֵ֥י

“Please, my lord,” said Hannah, “as surely as you live, my lord, I am the woman who stood here beside you praying to the LORD.
1 Samuel 2:15 חָֽי׃

Even before the fat was burned, the servant of the priest would come and say to the man who was sacrificing, “Give the priest some meat to roast, because he will not accept boiled meat from you, but only raw.”
1 Samuel 7:15 חַיָּֽיו׃

So Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life.
1 Samuel 14:39 חַי־

As surely as the LORD who saves Israel lives, even if it is my son Jonathan, he must die!” But not one of the troops said a word.
1 Samuel 14:45 חַי־

But the people said to Saul, “Must Jonathan die—he who accomplished such a great deliverance for Israel? Never! As surely as the LORD lives, not a hair of his head will fall to the ground, for with God’s help he has accomplished this today.” So the people rescued Jonathan, and he did not die.
1 Samuel 15:8 חָ֑י

He captured Agag king of Amalek alive, but devoted all the others to destruction with the sword.
1 Samuel 17:26 חַיִּֽים׃

David asked the men who were standing with him, “What will be done for the man who kills this Philistine and removes this disgrace from Israel? Just who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?”
1 Samuel 17:36 חַיִּֽים׃ס

Your servant has killed lions and bears; this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, for he has defied the armies of the living God.”
1 Samuel 17:46 וּלְחַיַּ֣ת

This day the LORD will deliver you into my hand. This day I will strike you down, cut off your head, and give the carcasses of the Philistines to the birds of the air and the creatures of the earth. Then the whole world will know that there is a God in Israel.
1 Samuel 17:55 חֵֽי־

As Saul had watched David going out to confront the Philistine, he said to Abner the commander of the army, “Abner, whose son is this young man?” “As surely as you live, O king,” Abner replied, “I do not know.”
1 Samuel 18:18 חַיַּ֔י

And David said to Saul, “Who am I, and what is my family or my father’s clan in Israel, that I should become the son-in-law of the king?”
1 Samuel 19:6 חַי־

Saul listened to the voice of Jonathan and swore an oath: “As surely as the LORD lives, David will not be put to death.”
1 Samuel 20:3 חַי־וְחֵ֣י

But David again vowed, “Your father knows very well that I have found favor in your eyes, and he has said, ‘Jonathan must not know of this, or he will be grieved.’ As surely as the LORD lives and as you yourself live, there is but a step between me and death.”
1 Samuel 20:14 חָ֑י

And as long as I live, treat me with the LORD’s loving devotion, that I may not die,
1 Samuel 20:21 חַי־

Then I will send a boy and say, ‘Go, find the arrows!’ Now, if I expressly say to him, ‘Look, the arrows are on this side of you; bring them,’ then come, because as surely as the LORD lives, it is safe for you and there is no danger.
1 Samuel 20:31 חַ֣י

For as long as the son of Jesse lives on this earth, neither you nor your kingship shall be established. Now send for him and bring him to me, for he must surely die!”
1 Samuel 25:6 לֶחָ֑י

and say to him, ‘Long life to you, and peace to you and your house and to all that belongs to you.
1 Samuel 25:26 חַי־וְחֵֽי־

Now, my lord, as surely as the LORD lives and you yourself live, the LORD has held you back from coming to bloodshed and avenging yourself with your own hand. May your enemies and those who seek harm for my lord be like Nabal.
1 Samuel 25:29 הַחַיִּ֗ים

And should someone pursue you and seek your life, then the life of my lord will be bound securely by the LORD your God in the bundle of the living. But He shall fling away the lives of your enemies like stones from a sling.
1 Samuel 25:34 חַי־

Otherwise, as surely as the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, who has restrained me from harming you, if you had not come quickly to meet me, then surely no male belonging to Nabal would have been left alive by morning light.”
1 Samuel 26:10 חַי־

David added, “As surely as the LORD lives, the LORD Himself will strike him down; either his day will come and he will die, or he will go into battle and perish.
1 Samuel 26:16 חַי־

This thing you have done is not good. As surely as the LORD lives, all of you deserve to die, since you did not protect your lord, the LORD’s anointed. Now look around. Where are the king’s spear and water jug that were by his head?”
1 Samuel 28:10 חַי־

Then Saul swore to her by the LORD: “As surely as the LORD lives, no punishment shall come upon you for this.”