חַי chay

Hebrew · Strong's H2416 · pronounced khah'-ee · used 498 times in 449 verses

Meaning

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

In the King James Version: [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.

Derivation: from H2421 (חָיָה);

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Where it is used

Psalms 21:4 He asked You for life, and You granted it—length of days, forever and ever.
Psalms 23:6 Surely goodness and mercy will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever.
Psalms 26:9 Do not take my soul away with sinners, or my life with men of bloodshed,
Psalms 27:1 Of David. The LORD is my light and my salvation—whom shall I fear? The LORD is the stronghold of my life—whom shall I dread?
Psalms 27:4 One thing I have asked of the LORD; this is what I desire: to dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the LORD and seek Him in His temple.
Psalms 27:13 Still I am certain to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.
Psalms 30:5 For His anger is fleeting, but His favor lasts a lifetime. Weeping may stay the night, but joy comes in the morning.
Psalms 31:10 For my life is consumed with grief and my years with groaning; my iniquity has drained my strength, and my bones are wasting away.
Psalms 34:12 Who is the man who delights in life, who desires to see good days?
Psalms 36:9 For with You is the fountain of life; in Your light we see light.
Psalms 38:19 Many are my enemies without cause, and many hate me without reason.
Psalms 42:2 My soul thirsts for God, the living God. When shall I come and appear in God’s presence?
Psalms 42:8 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 Though in his lifetime he blesses his soul—and men praise you when you prosper—
Psalms 50:10 for every beast of the forest is Mine—the cattle on a thousand hills.
Psalms 52:5 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 Let death seize them by surprise; let them go down to Sheol alive, for evil is with them in their homes.
Psalms 56:13 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 Before your pots can feel the burning thorns—whether green or dry—He will sweep them away.
Psalms 63:3 Because Your loving devotion is better than life, my lips will glorify You.
Psalms 63:4 So I will bless You as long as I live; in Your name I will lift my hands.
Psalms 64:1 For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. Hear, O God, my voice of complaint; preserve my life from dread of the enemy.
Psalms 66:9 He preserves our lives and keeps our feet from slipping.
Psalms 68:10 Your flock settled therein; O God, from Your bounty You provided for the poor.
Psalms 68:30 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 May they be blotted out of the Book of Life and not listed with the righteous.
Psalms 74:19 Do not deliver the soul of Your dove to beasts; do not forget the lives of Your afflicted forever.
Psalms 78:50 He cleared a path for His anger; He did not spare them from death but delivered their lives to the plague.
Psalms 79:2 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 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 For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draws near to Sheol.
Psalms 103:4 who redeems your life from the Pit and crowns you with loving devotion and compassion,
Psalms 104:11 They give drink to every beast of the field; the wild donkeys quench their thirst.
Psalms 104:20 You bring darkness, and it becomes night, when all the beasts of the forest prowl.
Psalms 104:25 Here is the sea, vast and wide, teeming with creatures beyond number, living things both great and small.
Psalms 104:33 I will sing to the LORD all my life; I will sing praise to my God while I have my being.
Psalms 116:9 I will walk before the LORD in the land of the living.
Psalms 124:3 when their anger flared against us, then they would have swallowed us alive,
Psalms 128:5 May the LORD bless you from Zion, that you may see the prosperity of Jerusalem all the days of your life,
Psalms 133:3 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 I cry to You, O LORD: “You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living.”
Psalms 143:2 Do not bring Your servant into judgment, for no one alive is righteous before You.
Psalms 143:3 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 You open Your hand and satisfy the desire of every living thing.
Psalms 146:2 I will praise the LORD all my life; I will sing praises to my God while I have my being.
Psalms 148:10 wild animals and all cattle, crawling creatures and flying birds,
Proverbs 1:12 let us swallow them alive like Sheol, and whole like those descending into the Pit.
Proverbs 2:19 None who go to her return or negotiate the paths of life.
Proverbs 3:2 for they will add length to your days, years and peace to your life.
Proverbs 3:18 She is a tree of life to those who embrace her, and those who lay hold of her are blessed.
Proverbs 3:22 They will be life to your soul and adornment to your neck.
Proverbs 4:10 Listen, my son, and receive my words, and the years of your life will be many.
Proverbs 4:13 Hold on to instruction; do not let go. Guard it, for it is your life.
Proverbs 4:22 For they are life to those who find them, and health to the whole body.
Proverbs 4:23 Guard your heart with all diligence, for from it flow springs of life.
Proverbs 5:6 She does not consider the path of life; she does not know that her ways are unstable.
Proverbs 6:23 For this commandment is a lamp, this teaching is a light, and the reproofs of discipline are the way to life,
Proverbs 8:35 For whoever finds me finds life and obtains the favor of the LORD.
Proverbs 9:11 For through wisdom your days will be multiplied, and years will be added to your life.
Proverbs 10:11 The mouth of the righteous is a fountain of life, but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence.