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

Proverbs 10:16 The labor of the righteous leads to life, but the gain of the wicked brings punishment.
Proverbs 10:17 Whoever heeds instruction is on the path to life, but he who ignores reproof goes astray.
Proverbs 11:19 Genuine righteousness leads to life, but the pursuit of evil brings death.
Proverbs 11:30 The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, and he who wins souls is wise.
Proverbs 12:28 There is life in the path of righteousness, but another path leads to death.
Proverbs 13:12 Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but desire fulfilled is a tree of life.
Proverbs 13:14 The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life, turning one from the snares of death.
Proverbs 14:27 The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, turning a man from the snares of death.
Proverbs 14:30 A tranquil heart is life to the body, but envy rots the bones.
Proverbs 15:4 A soothing tongue is a tree of life, but a perverse tongue crushes the spirit.
Proverbs 15:24 The path of life leads upward for the wise, that he may avoid going down to Sheol.
Proverbs 15:31 He who listens to life-giving reproof will dwell among the wise.
Proverbs 16:15 When a king’s face brightens, there is life; his favor is like a rain cloud in spring.
Proverbs 16:22 Understanding is a fountain of life to its possessor, but the discipline of fools is folly.
Proverbs 18:21 Life and death are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit.
Proverbs 19:23 The fear of the LORD leads to life, that one may rest content, without visitation from harm.
Proverbs 21:21 He who pursues righteousness and loving devotion finds life, righteousness, and honor.
Proverbs 22:4 The rewards of humility and the fear of the LORD are wealth and honor and life.
Proverbs 27:27 You will have plenty of goats’ milk to feed you—food for your household and nourishment for your maidservants.
Proverbs 31:12 She brings him good and not harm all the days of her life.
Ecclesiastes 2:3 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 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 I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice and do good while they live,
Ecclesiastes 4:2 So I admired the dead, who had already died, above the living, who are still alive.
Ecclesiastes 4:15 I saw that all who lived and walked under the sun followed this second one, the youth who succeeded the king.
Ecclesiastes 5:18 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 For a man seldom considers the days of his life, because God keeps him occupied with the joy of his heart.
Ecclesiastes 6:8 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 A feast is prepared for laughter, and wine makes life merry, but money is the answer for everything.
Song of Solomon 4:15 You are a garden spring, a well of fresh water flowing down from Lebanon.
Isaiah 4:3 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 When men tell you to consult mediums and 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 The living, only the living, can thank You, as I do today; fathers will tell their children about Your faithfulness.
Isaiah 38:20 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 Lebanon is not sufficient for fuel, nor its animals enough for a burnt offering.
Isaiah 43:20 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.
Isaiah 46:1 Bel crouches; Nebo cowers. Their idols weigh down beasts and cattle. The images you carry are burdensome, a load to the weary animal.
Isaiah 49:18 Lift up your eyes and look around. They all gather together; they come to you. As surely as I live,” declares the LORD, “you will wear them all as jewelry and put them on like a bride.
Isaiah 53:8 By oppression and judgment He was taken away, and who can recount His descendants? For He was cut off from the land of the living; He was stricken for the transgression of My people.
Isaiah 56:9 Come, all you beasts of the field; eat greedily, all you beasts of the forest.
Isaiah 57:10 You are wearied by your many journeys, but you did not say, “There is no hope!” You found renewal of your strength; therefore you did not grow weak.
Jeremiah 2:13 “For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living water, and they have dug their own cisterns—broken cisterns that cannot hold water.
Jeremiah 4:2 and if you can swear, ‘As surely as the LORD lives,’ in truth, in justice, and in righteousness, then the nations will be blessed by Him, and in Him they will glory.”
Jeremiah 5:2 Although they say, ‘As surely as the LORD lives,’ they are swearing falsely.”
Jeremiah 8:3 And wherever I have banished them, the remnant of this evil family will choose death over life,” declares the LORD of Hosts.
Jeremiah 10:10 But the LORD is the true God; He is the living God and eternal King. The earth quakes at His wrath, and the nations cannot endure His indignation.
Jeremiah 11:19 For I was like a gentle lamb led to slaughter; I did not know that they had plotted against me: “Let us destroy the tree with its fruit; let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be remembered no more.”