חַי
chay
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)
kinsfolk
1. living thing, animal
a. animal
b. life
c. appetite
d. revival, renewal
Aramaic equivalent: che.va (חֵיוָא "beast" H2423)
community
1. life (abstract emphatic)
a. life
b. sustenance, maintenance
Lexicon: STEPBible Tyndale House Brief Lexicons (TBESH / TBESG) (CC BY 4.0)
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Concordance 450 verses
- Psalms 36:9 חַיִּ֑ים
For with You is the fountain of life; in Your light we see light.
- Psalms 38:19 חַיִּ֣ים
Many are my enemies without cause, and many hate me without reason.
- Psalms 42:2 חָ֥י
My soul thirsts for God, the living God. When shall I come and appear in God’s presence?
- Psalms 42:8 חַיָּֽי׃
The LORD decrees His loving devotion by day, and at night His song is with me as a prayer to the God of my life.
- Psalms 49:18 בְּחַיָּ֣יו
Though in his lifetime he blesses his soul— and men praise you when you prosper—
- Psalms 50:10 חַיְתוֹ־
for every beast of the forest is Mine— the cattle on a thousand hills.
- Psalms 52:5 חַיִּ֣ים
Surely God will bring you down to everlasting ruin; He will snatch you up and tear you away from your tent; He will uproot you from the land of the living. Selah
- Psalms 55:15 חַיִּ֑ים
Let death seize them by surprise; let them go down to Sheol alive, for evil is with them in their homes.
- Psalms 56:13 הַֽחַיִּֽים׃
For You have delivered my soul from death, and my feet from stumbling, that I may walk before God in the light of life.
- Psalms 58:9 חַ֥י
Before your pots can feel the burning thorns— whether green or dry— He will sweep them away.
- Psalms 63:3 מֵֽחַיִּ֗ים
Because Your loving devotion is better than life, my lips will glorify You.
- Psalms 63:4 בְחַיָּ֑י
So I will bless You as long as I live; in Your name I will lift my hands.
- Psalms 64:1 חַיָּֽי׃
Hear, O God, my voice of complaint; preserve my life from dread of the enemy.
- Psalms 66:9 בַּֽחַיִּ֑ים
He preserves our lives and keeps our feet from slipping.
- Psalms 68:10 חַיָּתְךָ֥
Your flock settled therein; O God, from Your bounty You provided for the poor.
- Psalms 68:30 חַיַּ֪ת
Rebuke the beast in the reeds, the herd of bulls among the calves of the nations, until it submits, bringing bars of silver. Scatter the nations who delight in war.
- Psalms 69:28 חַיִּ֑ים
May they be blotted out of the Book of Life and not listed with the righteous.
- Psalms 74:19 לְ֭חַיַּתחַיַּ֥ת
Do not deliver the soul of Your dove to beasts; do not forget the lives of Your afflicted forever.
- Psalms 78:50 וְ֝חַיָּתָ֗ם
He cleared a path for His anger; He did not spare them from death but delivered their lives to the plague.
- Psalms 79:2 לְחַיְתוֹ־
They have given the corpses of Your servants as food to the birds of the air, the flesh of Your saints to the beasts of the earth.
- Psalms 84:2 חָֽי׃
My soul longs, even faints, for the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.
- Psalms 88:3 וְחַיַּ֗י
For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draws near to Sheol.
- Psalms 103:4 חַיָּ֑יְכִי
who redeems your life from the Pit and crowns you with loving devotion and compassion,
- Psalms 104:11 חַיְת֣וֹ
They give drink to every beast of the field; the wild donkeys quench their thirst.
- Psalms 104:20 חַיְתוֹ־
You bring darkness, and it becomes night, when all the beasts of the forest prowl.
- Psalms 104:25 חַיּ֥וֹת
Here is the sea, vast and wide, teeming with creatures beyond number, living things both great and small.
- Psalms 104:33 בְּחַיָּ֑י
I will sing to the LORD all my life; I will sing praise to my God while I have my being.
- Psalms 116:9 הַֽחַיִּֽים׃
I will walk before the LORD in the land of the living.
- Psalms 124:3 חַיִּ֣ים
when their anger flared against us, then they would have swallowed us alive,
- Psalms 128:5 חַיֶּֽיךָ׃
May the LORD bless you from Zion, that you may see the prosperity of Jerusalem all the days of your life,
- Psalms 133:3 חַ֝יִּ֗ים
It is like the dew of Hermon falling on the mountains of Zion. For there the LORD has bestowed the blessing of life forevermore.
- Psalms 142:5 הַֽחַיִּים׃
I cry to You, O LORD: “You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living.”
- Psalms 143:2 חָֽי׃
Do not bring Your servant into judgment, for no one alive is righteous before You.
- Psalms 143:3 חַיָּתִ֑י
For the enemy has pursued my soul, crushing my life to the ground, making me dwell in darkness like those long since dead.
- Psalms 145:16 חַ֣י
You open Your hand and satisfy the desire of every living thing.
- Psalms 146:2 בְּחַיָּ֑י
I will praise the LORD all my life; I will sing praises to my God while I have my being.
- Psalms 148:10 הַֽחַיָּ֥ה
wild animals and all cattle, crawling creatures and flying birds,
- Proverbs 1:12 חַיִּ֑ים
let us swallow them alive like Sheol, and whole like those descending into the Pit.
- Proverbs 2:19 חַיִּֽים׃
None who go to her return or negotiate the paths of life.
- Proverbs 3:2 חַיִּ֑ים
for they will add length to your days, years and peace to your life.
- Proverbs 3:18 חַיִּ֣ים
She is a tree of life to those who embrace her, and those who lay hold of her are blessed.
- Proverbs 3:22 חַיִּ֣ים
They will be life to your soul and adornment to your neck.
- Proverbs 4:10 חַיִּֽים׃
Listen, my son, and receive my words, and the years of your life will be many.
- Proverbs 4:13 חַיֶּֽיךָ׃
Hold on to instruction; do not let go. Guard it, for it is your life.
- Proverbs 4:22 חַיִּ֣ים
For they are life to those who find them, and health to the whole body.
- Proverbs 4:23 חַיִּֽים׃
Guard your heart with all diligence, for from it flow springs of life.
- Proverbs 5:6 חַ֭יִּים
She does not consider the path of life; she does not know that her ways are unstable.
- Proverbs 6:23 חַ֝יִּ֗ים
For this commandment is a lamp, this teaching is a light, and the reproofs of discipline are the way to life,
- Proverbs 8:35 חַיִּ֑ים
For whoever finds me finds life and obtains the favor of the LORD.
- Proverbs 9:11 חַיִּֽים׃
For through wisdom your days will be multiplied, and years will be added to your life.