Words

חַי H2416

Home gloss

living; living thing; life (the plural חַיִּים, 26)

Instead of (KJV / RSV)

living; beast

Note

חַיָּה as a noun is the wild animal (v. 24–25, 28, 30; Gen 7:14; Lev 11:2); as an adjective with נֶפֶשׁ it is "living soul" (v. 20, 21, 24, 30; 2:7). "Beast" is kept for בְּהֵמָה

Rulings

2

Occurrences (41)

Genesis 1

• 1:20 And Elohim said, "Let the waters swarm a swarm of living soul, and let flyers fly over the land, on the face of the hammered sheet of the skies."
• 1:21 And Elohim created the great dragons, and every living soul that creeps, which the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged flyer after its kind. And Elohim saw that it was good.
• 1:24 And Elohim said, "Let the land bring out living soul after its kind: beast and creeper and living thing of the land after its kind." And it was thus.
• 1:24 And Elohim said, "Let the land bring out living soul after its kind: beast and creeper and living thing of the land after its kind." And it was thus.
• 1:25 And Elohim made the living thing of the land after its kind, and the beast after its kind, and every creeper of the ground after its kind. And Elohim saw that it was good.
• 1:28 And Elohim blessed them, and Elohim said to them, "Bear fruit and be many, and fill the land and subdue it; and master the fish of the sea and the flyers of the skies and every living thing creeping on the land."
• 1:30 And to every living thing of the land and to every flyer of the skies and to everything creeping on the land in which is living soul—every green of plant for eating." And it was thus.
• 1:30 And to every living thing of the land and to every flyer of the skies and to everything creeping on the land in which is living soul—every green of plant for eating." And it was thus.

Genesis 2

• 2:7 and Elohim shaped the human, dust from the ground, and blew into his nostrils breath of life; and the human became a living soul.
• 2:7 and Elohim shaped the human, dust from the ground, and blew into his nostrils breath of life; and the human became a living soul.
• 2:9 And Elohim made spring up from the ground every tree desirable to the sight and good for fare, and the tree of life in the middle of the garden, and the tree of knowing good and bad.
• 2:19 And Elohim shaped from the ground every living thing of the field and every flyer of the skies, and brought them to the human to see what he would call to it; and whatever the human would call to it—living soul—that was its name.
• 2:19 And Elohim shaped from the ground every living thing of the field and every flyer of the skies, and brought them to the human to see what he would call to it; and whatever the human would call to it—living soul—that was its name.
• 2:20 And the human called names to every beast and to the flyers of the skies and to every living thing of the field; but for human he did not find a help as one opposite him.

Genesis 3

• 3:1 And the serpent was more shrewd than every living thing of the field that Elohim had made; and he said to the woman, "Is it even so, that Elohim said, 'You shall not eat from every tree of the garden'?"
• 3:14 And Elohim said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, cursed are you from all the beast and from every living thing of the field; on your belly you shall go, and dust you shall eat all the days of your life.
• 3:14 And Elohim said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, cursed are you from all the beast and from every living thing of the field; on your belly you shall go, and dust you shall eat all the days of your life.
• 3:17 And to man he said, "Because you heard the voice of your woman and ate from the tree that I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat from it,' cursed is the ground for your sake; in pain you shall eat it all the days of your life.
• 3:20 And the man called the name of his woman Eve, for she was the mother of all living.
• 3:22 And Elohim said, "Look, the human has become like one of us, to know good and bad; and now, lest he send his hand and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live to the age—"
• 3:24 And he drove out the man; and he made tent on the east of the garden of Eden the cherubim and the blaze of the sword that turns itself about, to keep the way of the tree of life.

Genesis 6

• 6:17 And I, look, I am bringing the flood, waters, on the land, to ruin all flesh in which is a spirit of life from under the skies; everything that is in the land shall expire.
• 6:19 And from all the living, from all flesh, two from all you shall bring into the box, to keep alive with you; male and female they shall be.

Genesis 7

• 7:11 In the year of six hundred years of the life of Noah, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on this day all the springs of vast Abyss were split, and the lattices of the skies were opened.
• 7:14 they, and every living thing to its kind, and every beast to its kind, and every creeper that creeps on the land to its kind, and every flyer to its kind, every bird of every wing.
• 7:15 And they came to Noah into the box, two two from all the flesh in which is a spirit of life.
• 7:21 And all flesh that creeps on the land expired, among the flyers and among the beast and among the living thing and among every swarm that swarms on the land, and all the human.
• 7:22 Everything that had the breath of a spirit of life in its nostrils, of all that was on the parched, died.

Genesis 8

• 8:1 And Elohim remembered Noah, and every living thing and every beast that was with him in the box; and Elohim made pass a wind over the land, and the waters subsided.
• 8:17 Every living thing that is with you from all flesh, among the flyers and among the beast and among every creeper that creeps on the land, bring out with you; and let them swarm in the land and bear fruit and be many on the land."
• 8:19 Every living thing, every creeper and every flyer, everything creeping on the land: by their clans they went out from the box.
• 8:21 And smelled the restful scent, and said to his heart, "I will not add to make light of the ground again for the sake of the human, for the shaping of the heart of the human is bad from his youth; and I will not add again to strike every living thing, as I have done.

Genesis 9

• 9:2 And the awe of you and the dismay of you shall be on every living thing of the land and on every flyer of the skies; in all with which the ground creeps, and in all the fish of the sea: into your hand they are given.
• 9:3 Every creeper that is living shall be yours for eating; like the green of plant, I have given you everything.
• 9:5 And surely your blood, for your souls, I will inquire after; from the hand of every living thing I will inquire after it; and from the hand of the human, from the hand of a man, his brother, I will inquire after the soul of the human.
• 9:10 and with every living soul that is with you, among the flyers, among the beast and among every living thing of the land with you, from all that went out of the box, to every living thing of the land.
• 9:10 and with every living soul that is with you, among the flyers, among the beast and among every living thing of the land with you, from all that went out of the box, to every living thing of the land.
• 9:10 and with every living soul that is with you, among the flyers, among the beast and among every living thing of the land with you, from all that went out of the box, to every living thing of the land.
• 9:12 And Elohim said, "This is the sign of the covenant that I am giving between me and between you and between every living soul that is with you, for generations of age:
• 9:15 then I will remember my covenant that is between me and between you and between every living soul in all flesh; and the waters shall not become again a flood to ruin all flesh.
• 9:16 And the bow shall be in the cloud, and I will see it, to remember a covenant of age between Elohim and between every living soul in all flesh that is on the land."