{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H2416",
  "lemma": "חַי",
  "transliteration": "chay",
  "definition": "alive; hence, raw (flesh); fresh (plant, water, year), strong; also (as noun, especially in the feminine singular and masculine plural) life (or living…",
  "kjv": "[phrase] age, alive, appetite, (wild) beast, company, congregation, life(-time)…",
  "occurrences": 500,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "builtFrom": [
    {
      "id": "H2421",
      "lemma": "חָיָה",
      "transliteration": "châyâh",
      "meaning": "to live, whether literally or figuratively",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/word/H2421"
    }
  ],
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "[חַי] n.[m.] kinsfolk, pl. sf. 1 S 18:18",
    "חַי adj",
    "חַי adj. alive, living",
    "a. of God, as the living one, the fountain of life",
    "b. of man",
    "c. of animals, alive, living",
    "d. animals and man",
    "e. (dub.) of vegetation, as thorns, green",
    "f. of water, fresh",
    "2. (dub.) lively, active",
    "3. reviving",
    "חַיָּה n.f",
    "חַיָּה n.f. living thing, animal",
    "1. animal",
    "a. in general",
    "b. wild animals, on account of their vital energy and activity",
    "c. living beings, of the cherubic chariot",
    "2. life, only in late poetry",
    "3. appetite, activity of hunger",
    "4. revival, renewal",
    "חַיָּה n.f",
    "חַיָּה n.f. community",
    "חַיִּים n.m",
    "חַיִּים n.m. pl. abstr. emph. life",
    "1. life: physical",
    "2. life: as welfare and happiness in king's presence",
    "3. sustenance, maintenance"
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 1:20",
      "text": "God said, “Let the waters abound with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=20"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 1:21",
      "text": "God created the large sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed, after their…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=21"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 1:24",
      "text": "God said, “Let the earth produce living creatures after their kind, livestock, creeping things, and animals of the…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=24"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 1:25",
      "text": "God made the animals of the earth after their kind, and the livestock after their kind, and everything that creeps on…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=25"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 1:28",
      "text": "God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=28"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 1:30",
      "text": "To every animal of the earth, and to every bird of the sky, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=30"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 2:7",
      "text": "The LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/2?v=7"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 2:9",
      "text": "Out of the ground the LORD God made every tree to grow that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food, including the…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/2?v=9"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 2:19",
      "text": "Out of the ground the LORD God formed every animal of the field, and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/2?v=19"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 2:20",
      "text": "The man gave names to all livestock, and to the birds of the sky, and to every animal of the field; but for man there…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/2?v=20"
    }
  ],
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