H2416 חַי

חַי (chay), Strong’s H2416: 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…

Source: https://besorah.bible/word/H2416 — Besorah, the whole Bible in Hebrew, Greek and English. Texts and licences: https://besorah.bible/about/credits.html

chay — 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)…

Derived from חָיָה châyâh (https://besorah.bible/word/H2421) (to live, whether literally or figuratively)

Occurs 500 times.

Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [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

Where it occurs
- Genesis 1:20 (https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=20) — God said, “Let the waters abound with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the…
- Genesis 1:21 (https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=21) — God created the large sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed, after their…
- Genesis 1:24 (https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=24) — God said, “Let the earth produce living creatures after their kind, livestock, creeping things, and animals of the…
- Genesis 1:25 (https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=25) — God made the animals of the earth after their kind, and the livestock after their kind, and everything that creeps on…
- Genesis 1:28 (https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=28) — God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish…
- Genesis 1:30 (https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=30) — To every animal of the earth, and to every bird of the sky, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there…
- Genesis 2:7 (https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/2?v=7) — The LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became…
- Genesis 2:9 (https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/2?v=9) — Out of the ground the LORD God made every tree to grow that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food, including the…
- Genesis 2:19 (https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/2?v=19) — 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…
- Genesis 2:20 (https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/2?v=20) — 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…