חַי
chay · khah'-ee
alive; also (as noun in plural) life
Lexicon
Derivation: (Aramaic) from H2418 (חֲיָא);
alive; also (as noun in plural) life
- alive
- also, (as noun in plural) life
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: life, that liveth, living.
Letters
- חHet8
Picture: courtyard wall or enclosure
- Concrete
- wall · fence · tent wall
- Extended
- to separate · protection · the inside vs. the outside · private
- יYod10
Picture: arm and closed hand
- Concrete
- hand · arm · work
- Extended
- a deed · to make · to work · to throw or worship
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to separate and protect › the hand that works
To separate and protect of the hand that works.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of חַי above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
7 occurrences · 7 OT · 0 NT · 7 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- for the life1 · 14%
- living1 · 14%
- that the living1 · 14%
- him that liveth1 · 14%
- of the living1 · 14%
- for he is the living1 · 14%
- yet their lives1 · 14%
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.