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חַי
chay · Hebrew · Strong's H2416 · 500 occurrences
The KJV renders 30 different Hebrew and Greek words as “thing”
What it means
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
from H2421 (חָיָה);
How the KJV renders it
alive, appetite, beast, company, congregation, life, live, living creature, thing, maintenance, multitude, quick, raw, running, springing, troop
Where that flattens a distinction
The same English word is also used for these other originals, so the distinction between them disappears in translation.
“thing”
also renders tìs (G5100), asthenḗs (G772), hágios (G40), mēdeís (G3367), tís (G5101), oudeís (G3762), lógos (G3056), prâgma (G4229), nomízō (G3543), ʼômer (H562), gâdôwl (H1419), dâbâr (H1697), zûwr (H2114), ṭûwb (H2898), yârêʼ (H3372), kôl (H3605), kᵉlîy (H3627), mᵉlâʼkâh (H4399), mᵉʻaṭ (H4592), niddâh (H5079), nephesh (H5315), ʻôsheq (H6233), piggûwl (H6292), qôdesh (H6944), qâlal (H7043), qâsheh (H7186), raʻ (H7451), tahpukâh (H8419), tôwʻêbah (H8441)
“company”
also renders synodía (G4923), óchlos (G3793), sympósion (G4849), plēthos (G4128), klisía (G2828), ʼôrᵉchâh (H736), bath (H1323), hălîykâh (H1979), hâmôwn (H1995), chebel (H2256), cheber (H2267), chayil (H2428), lahăqâh (H3862), machălôqeth (H4256), tsâbâʼ (H6635), qibbûwts (H6899), rôʼsh (H7218), shiphʻâh (H8229)
“multitude”
also renders óchlos (G3793), plēthos (G4128), ʼÂmôwn (H528), hâmôwn (H1995), mâlêʼ (H4392), mᵉlôʼ (H4393), marbîyth (H4768), rîyb (H7379), shiphʻâh (H8229)
“live”
“life”
“beast”
“alive”
also renders záō (G2198)
“appetite”
also renders nephesh (H5315)
“raw”
also renders nâʼ (H4995)
“running”
also renders mᵉrûwtsâh (H4794)
“troop”
also renders ʼôrach (H734)
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Where it appears
500 occurrences in the Hebrew text, first 60 verses shown.
1 Kings 1:29 · HAamsa
The king vowed and said, “As Yahweh lives, who has redeemed my soul out of all adversity,
1 Kings 2:24 · HAamsa
Now therefore as Yahweh lives, who has established me and set me on my father David’s throne, and who has made me a house as he promised, surely Adonijah shall be put to death today.”
1 Kings 3:22 · HTd/Aamsa
The other woman said, “No! But the living one is my son, and the dead one is your son.” The first one said, “No! But the dead one is your son, and the living one is my son.” They argued like this before the king.
1 Kings 3:23 · HTd/Aamsa
Then the king said, “One says, ‘This is my son who lives, and your son is the dead one;’ and the other says, ‘No! But your son is the dead one, and my son is the living one.’”
1 Kings 3:25 · HTd/Aamsa
The king said, “Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.”
1 Kings 3:26 · HTd/Aamsa
Then the woman whose the living child was spoke to the king, for her heart yearned over her son, and she said, “Oh, my lord, give her the living child, and in no way kill him!” But the other said, “He shall be neither mine nor yours. Divide him.”
1 Kings 3:27 HTd/Aamsa1 Kings 4:21 HNcmpc/Sp3ms1 Kings 8:40 HAampa1 Kings 11:34 HNcmpc/Sp3ms1 Kings 12:6 HAamsa1 Kings 15:5 HNcmpc/Sp3ms1 Kings 15:6 HNcmpc/Sp3ms1 Kings 17:1 HAamsa1 Kings 17:12 HAamsa1 Kings 17:23 HAamsa1 Kings 18:10 HAamsa1 Kings 18:15 HAamsa1 Kings 20:18 HAampa1 Kings 20:32 HAamsa1 Kings 21:15 HAamsa1 Kings 22:14 HAamsa1 Samuel 1:11 HNcmpc/Sp3ms1 Samuel 1:26 HAamsa1 Samuel 2:15 HAamsa1 Samuel 7:15 HNcmpc/Sp3ms1 Samuel 14:39 HAamsa1 Samuel 14:45 HAamsa1 Samuel 15:8 HAamsa1 Samuel 17:26 HAampa1 Samuel 17:36 HAampa1 Samuel 17:46 HC/R/Ncfsc1 Samuel 17:55 HAamsa1 Samuel 18:18 HNcmpc/Sp1cs1 Samuel 19:6 HAamsa1 Samuel 20:3 HAamsa1 Samuel 20:14 HAamsa1 Samuel 20:21 HAamsa1 Samuel 25:6 HRd/Aamsa1 Samuel 25:26 HAamsa1 Samuel 25:29 HTd/Aampa1 Samuel 25:34 HAamsa1 Samuel 26:10 HAamsa1 Samuel 26:16 HAamsa1 Samuel 28:10 HAamsa1 Samuel 29:6 HAamsa2 Chronicles 6:31 HAampa2 Chronicles 10:6 HAamsa2 Chronicles 18:13 HAamsa2 Chronicles 25:12 HAampa2 Chronicles 25:18 HNcfsc2 Kings 2:2 HAamsa2 Kings 2:4 HAamsa2 Kings 2:6 HAamsa2 Kings 3:14 HAamsa2 Kings 4:16 HAafsa2 Kings 4:17 HAafsa2 Kings 4:30 HAamsa2 Kings 5:16 HAamsa2 Kings 5:20 HAamsa
Occurrences and morphology are taken from the primary Hebrew text, never from an English translation. Strong's Hebrew lexicon and Westminster Leningrad Codex morphology used under CC BY-SA 4.0 / CC BY 4.0 (OpenScriptures). Strong's Greek lexicon is public domain.