chayay · live

What it means

chayay (חָיַי) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “live”.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To keep one's life, not die.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• live ×15
• lives ×3
• lived ×2

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×3
• Exodus×2
• Leviticus×1
• Numbers×2
• Deuteronomy×4
• 1 Samuel×1
• Nehemiah×1
• Ezekiel×6

• Genesis 3:22

  And YHWH Elohim said, “Look, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil; and now, so that he does not reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat and live forever—”

• Genesis 5:5

  And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years; and he died.

• Genesis 25:7

  These are the days of the years of the life of Abraham which he lived: a hundred and seventy and five years.

• Exodus 1:16

  He said, “When you help the Hebrew women give birth and see them on the birthstool, if it is a son, kill him; but if it is a daughter, she shall live.”

• Exodus 33:20

  And he said, “You cannot see my face, for no human being can see me and live.”

• Leviticus 18:5

  So you shall keep my statutes and my rules, by which, if a person does them, he shall live. I am YHWH.

• Numbers 21:8

  And YHWH said to Moses, “Make for yourself a fiery serpent and set it on a pole; and everyone who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live.”

• Numbers 21:9

  So Moses made a serpent of bronze and set it on the pole; and if a serpent bit any man, he would look to the serpent of bronze and live.

• Deuteronomy 4:42

  for the manslayer to flee there, who kills his neighbor unknowingly, and he did not hate him previously, so that by fleeing to one of these cities he may live:

• Deuteronomy 5:24

  and you said, “Look, YHWH our Elohim has shown us his glory and his greatness, and we have heard his voice from the midst of the fire. This day we have seen that Elohim speaks with a human being, and he lives.

• Deuteronomy 19:4

  And this is the case of the manslayer who flees there and lives: whoever strikes his neighbor without knowing it, and he did not hate him previously,

• Deuteronomy 19:5

  as when someone goes with his neighbor into the forest to cut wood, and his hand swings the axe to cut down the tree, and the iron head slips off from the wood and strikes his neighbor so that he dies, he may flee to one of these cities and live,

• 1 Samuel 20:31

  For all the days that the son of Jesse lives on the ground, you will not be established, nor your kingdom. And now, send and bring him to me, for he deserves death.”

• Nehemiah 6:11

  But I said, “Should a man like me flee? And who is there like me who would go into the temple and live? I will not go in.”

• Ezekiel 18:13

  lends at interest and takes profit: will he live? He will not live. All these abominations he has done; he will surely be put to death; his blood will be on him.

• Ezekiel 18:24

  But when a righteous man turns from his righteousness and does injustice, according to all the abominations that the wicked man has done, will he do so and live? All his righteous deeds that he has done will not be remembered; for his breach of faith that he committed and for his sin that he sinned, for them he will die.

• Ezekiel 20:11

  And I gave them my statutes, and my rules I made known to them, which if a human being does them, he will live by them.

• Ezekiel 20:13

  But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness; in my statutes they did not walk, and my rules they rejected, which if a human being does them, he will live by them; and my Sabbaths they profaned greatly. And I said that I would pour out my fury on them in the wilderness to make an end of them.

• Ezekiel 20:21

  But the sons rebelled against me; in my statutes they did not walk, and my rules they did not keep to do them, which if a human being does them, he will live by them; my Sabbaths they profaned. And I said that I would pour out my fury on them to spend my anger on them in the wilderness.

• Ezekiel 47:9

  And it will be that every living being that swarms wherever the two torrents go there will live; and there will be very many fish, for this water goes there, and the waters will be healed, and everything will live wherever the torrent goes.