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Job 10:12
“Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
חַיchay · khah'-ee
H2416 · Hebrew
H2416 · Hebrew
- Definition
- 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
- Derivation
- from H2421 (חָיָה);
- KJV renderings
- [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.
- Grammar
- חַיִּ֣ים — common noun, masculine, plural, absolute
- Usage
- Occurs 503 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 1:20Genesis 1:21Genesis 1:24Genesis 1:24Genesis 1:25
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read חַי here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.