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
- Proverbs 10:11 חַ֭יִּים
The mouth of the righteous is a fountain of life, but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence.
- Proverbs 10:16 לְחַיִּ֑ים
The labor of the righteous leads to life, but the gain of the wicked brings punishment.
- Proverbs 10:17 לְ֭חַיִּים
Whoever heeds instruction is on the path to life, but he who ignores reproof goes astray.
- Proverbs 11:19 לְחַיִּ֑ים
Genuine righteousness leads to life, but the pursuit of evil brings death.
- Proverbs 11:30 חַיִּ֑ים
The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, and he who wins souls is wise.
- Proverbs 12:28 חַיִּ֑ים
There is life in the path of righteousness, but another path leads to death.
- Proverbs 13:12 חַ֝יִּ֗ים
Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but desire fulfilled is a tree of life.
- Proverbs 13:14 חַיִּ֑ים
The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life, turning one from the snares of death.
- Proverbs 14:27 חַיִּ֑ים
The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, turning a man from the snares of death.
- Proverbs 14:30 חַיֵּ֣י
A tranquil heart is life to the body, but envy rots the bones.
- Proverbs 15:4 חַיִּ֑ים
A soothing tongue is a tree of life, but a perverse tongue crushes the spirit.
- Proverbs 15:24 חַ֭יִּים
The path of life leads upward for the wise, that he may avoid going down to Sheol.
- Proverbs 15:31 חַיִּ֑ים
He who listens to life-giving reproof will dwell among the wise.
- Proverbs 16:15 חַיִּ֑ים
When a king’s face brightens, there is life; his favor is like a rain cloud in spring.
- Proverbs 16:22 חַ֭יִּים
Understanding is a fountain of life to its possessor, but the discipline of fools is folly.
- Proverbs 18:21 וְ֭חַיִּים
Life and death are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit.
- Proverbs 19:23 לְחַיִּ֑ים
The fear of the LORD leads to life, that one may rest content, without visitation from harm.
- Proverbs 21:21 חַ֝יִּ֗ים
He who pursues righteousness and loving devotion finds life, righteousness, and honor.
- Proverbs 22:4 וְחַיִּֽים׃
The rewards of humility and the fear of the LORD are wealth and honor and life.
- Proverbs 27:27 וְ֝חַיִּ֗ים
You will have plenty of goats’ milk to feed you— food for your household and nourishment for your maidservants.
- Proverbs 31:12 חַיֶּֽיה׃
She brings him good and not harm all the days of her life.
- Ecclesiastes 2:3 חַיֵּיהֶֽם׃
I sought to cheer my body with wine and to embrace folly—my mind still guiding me with wisdom—until I could see what was worthwhile for men to do under heaven during the few days of their lives.
- Ecclesiastes 2:17 הַ֣חַיִּ֔ים
So I hated life, because the work that is done under the sun was grievous to me. For everything is futile and a pursuit of the wind.
- Ecclesiastes 3:12 בְּחַיָּֽיו׃
I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice and do good while they live,
- Ecclesiastes 4:2 הַ֣חַיִּ֔יםחַיִּ֖ים
So I admired the dead, who had already died, above the living, who are still alive.
- Ecclesiastes 4:15 הַ֣חַיִּ֔ים
I saw that all who lived and walked under the sun followed this second one, the youth who succeeded the king.
- Ecclesiastes 5:18 חַיָּו
Here is what I have seen to be good and fitting: to eat and drink, and to find satisfaction in all the labor one does under the sun during the few days of life that God has given him—for this is his lot.
- Ecclesiastes 5:20 חַיָּ֑יו
For a man seldom considers the days of his life, because God keeps him occupied with the joy of his heart.
- Ecclesiastes 6:8 הַחַיִּֽים׃
What advantage, then, has the wise man over the fool? What gain comes to the poor man who knows how to conduct himself before others?
- Ecclesiastes 6:12 בַּֽחַיִּ֗יםחַיֵּ֥י
For who knows what is good for a man during the few days in which he passes through his fleeting life like a shadow? Who can tell a man what will come after him under the sun?
- Ecclesiastes 7:2 וְהַחַ֖י
It is better to enter a house of mourning than a house of feasting, since death is the end of every man, and the living should take this to heart.
- Ecclesiastes 8:15 חַיָּ֛יו
So I commended the enjoyment of life, because there is nothing better for a man under the sun than to eat and drink and be merry. For this joy will accompany him in his labor during the days of his life that God gives him under the sun.
- Ecclesiastes 9:3 בְּחַיֵּיהֶ֔ם
This is an evil in everything that is done under the sun: There is one fate for everyone. Furthermore, the hearts of men are full of evil and madness while they are alive, and afterward they join the dead.
- Ecclesiastes 9:4 הַחַיִּ֖יםחַי֙
There is hope, however, for anyone who is among the living; for even a live dog is better than a dead lion.
- Ecclesiastes 9:5 הַֽחַיִּ֛ים
For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing. They have no further reward, because the memory of them is forgotten.
- Ecclesiastes 9:9 חַיִּ֜יםחַיֵּ֣יבַּֽחַיִּ֔ים
Enjoy life with your beloved wife all the days of the fleeting life that God has given you under the sun—all your fleeting days. For this is your portion in life and in your labor under the sun.
- Ecclesiastes 10:19 חַיִּ֑ים
A feast is prepared for laughter, and wine makes life merry, but money is the answer for everything.
- Song of Solomon 4:15 חַיִּ֑ים
You are a garden spring, a well of fresh water flowing down from Lebanon.
- Isaiah 4:3 לַחַיִּ֖ים
Whoever remains in Zion and whoever is left in Jerusalem will be called holy— all in Jerusalem who are recorded among the living—
- Isaiah 8:19 הַחַיִּ֖ים
When men tell you to consult the spirits of the dead and the spiritists who whisper and mutter, shouldn’t a people consult their God instead? Why consult the dead on behalf of the living?
- Isaiah 35:9 חַיּוֹת֙
No lion will be there, and no vicious beast will go up on it. Such will not be found there, but the redeemed will walk upon it.
- Isaiah 37:4 חַ֔י
Perhaps the LORD your God will hear the words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to defy the living God, and He will rebuke him for the words that the LORD your God has heard. Therefore lift up a prayer for the remnant that still survives.”
- Isaiah 37:17 חָֽי׃
Incline Your ear, O LORD, and hear; open Your eyes, O LORD, and see. Listen to all the words that Sennacherib has sent to defy the living God.
- Isaiah 38:11 הַחַיִּ֑ים
I said, “I will never again see the LORD, even the LORD, in the land of the living; I will no longer look on mankind with those who dwell in this world.
- Isaiah 38:12 חַיַּי֙
My dwelling has been picked up and removed from me like a shepherd’s tent. I have rolled up my life like a weaver; He cuts me off from the loom; from day until night You make an end of me.
- Isaiah 38:16 חַיֵּ֣י
O Lord, by such things men live, and in all of them my spirit finds life. You have restored me to health and have let me live.
- Isaiah 38:19 חַ֥יחַ֛י
The living, only the living, can thank You, as I do today; fathers will tell their children about Your faithfulness.
- Isaiah 38:20 חַיֵּ֖ינוּ
The LORD will save me; we will play songs on stringed instruments all the days of our lives in the house of the LORD.
- Isaiah 40:16 וְחַיָּת֔וֹ
Lebanon is not sufficient for fuel, nor its animals enough for a burnt offering.
- Isaiah 43:20 חַיַּ֣ת
The beasts of the field will honor Me, the jackals and the ostriches, because I provide water in the wilderness and rivers in the desert, to give drink to My chosen people.