Hebrew
חַי chay
“alive” · 498 times in the Old Testament
Through the Bible
- “lives” 121
- “life” 103
- “beasts” 46
- “live” 44
- “alive” 40
- other ways 144
- zōē, the Greek the New Testament uses for it 135
In the New Testament it continues as zōē: Acts 2:28 quotes Psalms 16:11, and puts this word in Greek.
As a table, book by book
| Book | Times |
|---|---|
| Genesis | 66 |
| Exodus | 9 |
| Leviticus | 33 |
| Numbers | 7 |
| Deuteronomy | 21 |
| Joshua | 4 |
| Judges | 2 |
| Ruth | 2 |
| 1 Samuel | 26 |
| 2 Samuel | 22 |
| 1 Kings | 26 |
| 2 Kings | 21 |
| 2 Chronicles | 5 |
| Job | 24 |
| Psalms | 51 |
| Proverbs | 34 |
| Ecclesiastes | 21 |
| Song of Songs | 1 |
| Isaiah | 19 |
| Jeremiah | 23 |
| Lamentations | 3 |
| Ezekiel | 59 |
| Daniel | 3 |
| Hosea | 6 |
| Amos | 2 |
| Jonah | 3 |
| Zephaniah | 3 |
| Zechariah | 1 |
| Malachi | 1 |
| Matthew | 7 |
| Mark | 4 |
| Luke | 5 |
| John | 36 |
| Acts | 8 |
| Romans | 14 |
| 1 Corinthians | 2 |
| 2 Corinthians | 6 |
| Galatians | 1 |
| Ephesians | 1 |
| Philippians | 3 |
| Colossians | 2 |
| 1 Timothy | 4 |
| 2 Timothy | 2 |
| Titus | 2 |
| Hebrews | 2 |
| James | 2 |
| 1 Peter | 2 |
| 2 Peter | 1 |
| 1 John | 13 |
| Jude | 1 |
| Revelation | 17 |
How the BSB translates it
Each way the Berean Standard Bible puts it into English, and how often.
Its meanings, as STEP Bible divides them
- alive 242
- life 145
- living thing 106
- community 4
- kinsfolk 1
With a pronoun joined
Hebrew joins “me”, “you”, “him” and the like to the end of a word.
Where it occurs
Grouped by how it’s translated, then by book. Each reference opens the verse.
“lives” 121
Genesis 16
- 1:20 …Let the waters teem with living creatures and let birds…
- 1:21 …sea creatures and every living thing that moves with…
- 1:24 …the earth bring forth living creatures according to their…
- 2:7 …and the man became a living being…
- 3:20 …the mother of all the living
- 6:19 …bring two of every living creature into the ark…
- 9:3 …Everything that lives and moves will be…
- 9:10 …and with every living creature that was with…
- 9:12 …and you and every living creature with you a…
- 9:15 …and you and every living creature of every kind…
- 9:16 …between God and every living creature of every kind…
- 25:7 …Abraham lived a total of years…
- 25:17 …Ishmael lived a total of years…
- 42:15 …As surely as Pharaoh lives you shall not leave…
- 42:16 …as surely as Pharaoh lives you are spies…
- 47:8 …How many years have you lived Pharaoh asked…
Exodus 3
Leviticus 1
- 11:46 …regarding animals birds all living creatures that move in…
Numbers 1
- 16:48 …He stood between the living and the dead and…
Deuteronomy 2
Joshua 1
- 3:10 …you will know that the living God is among you…
Judges 1
- 8:19 …surely as the LORD lives if you had let…
Ruth 2
1 Samuel 14
- 14:39 …LORD who saves Israel lives even if it is…
- 14:45 …surely as the LORD lives not a hair of…
- 17:26 …should defy the armies of the living God…
- 17:36 …has defied the armies of the living God…
- 19:6 …surely as the LORD lives David will not be…
- 20:3 …surely as the LORD lives and as you yourself…
- 20:21 …surely as the LORD lives it is safe for…
- 25:26 …surely as the LORD lives and you yourself live…
- 25:29 …God in the bundle of the living But He shall fling…
- 25:34 …the God of Israel lives who has restrained me…
- 26:10 …surely as the LORD lives the LORD Himself will…
- 26:16 …surely as the LORD lives all of you deserve…
- 28:10 …surely as the LORD lives no punishment shall come…
- 29:6 …surely as the LORD lives you have been upright…
2 Samuel 8
- 2:27 …As surely as God lives Joab replied if you…
- 4:9 …surely as the LORD lives who has redeemed my…
- 11:11 …and as your soul lives I will not do…
- 12:5 …surely as the LORD lives the man who did…
- 14:11 …surely as the LORD lives he vowed not a…
- 15:21 …surely as the LORD lives and as my lord…
- 15:21 …my lord the king lives wherever my lord the…
- 22:47 …The LORD lives and blessed be my…
1 Kings 10
- 1:29 …surely as the LORD lives who has redeemed my…
- 2:24 …surely as the LORD lives the One who established…
- 3:25 …the king declared Cut the living child in two and…
- 3:26 …she said give her the living baby Do not kill…
- 3:27 …gave his ruling Give the living baby to the first…
- 17:1 …the God of Israel lives before whom I stand…
- 17:12 …the LORD your God lives I have no bread…
- 18:10 …the LORD your God lives there is no nation…
- 18:15 …the LORD of Hosts lives before whom I stand…
- 22:14 …surely as the LORD lives I will speak whatever…
2 Kings 9
- 2:2 …surely as the LORD lives and as you yourself…
- 2:4 …surely as the LORD lives and as you yourself…
- 2:6 …surely as the LORD lives and as you yourself…
- 3:14 …the LORD of Hosts lives before whom I stand…
- 4:30 …surely as the LORD lives and as you yourself…
- 5:16 …surely as the LORD lives before whom I stand…
- 5:20 …surely as the LORD lives I will run after…
- 19:4 …has sent to defy the living God and He will…
- 19:16 …has sent to defy the living God…
2 Chronicles 1
- 18:13 …surely as the LORD lives I will speak whatever…
Job 4
Psalms 7
- 18:46 …The LORD lives and blessed be my…
- 27:13 …LORD in the land of the living
- 42:2 …soul thirsts for God the living God When shall I…
- 52:5 …you from the land of the living Selah…
- 66:9 …He preserves our lives and keeps our feet…
- 74:19 …beasts do not forget the lives of Your afflicted forever…
- 78:50 …from death but delivered their lives to the plague…
And 41 more, on the full page.
“life” 103
Genesis 13
- 1:30 …that has the breath of life in it I have…
- 2:7 …and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils and…
- 2:9 …garden were the tree of life and the tree of…
- 3:14 …eat all the days of your life
- 3:17 …it all the days of your life
- 3:22 …also from the tree of life and eat and live…
- 3:24 …way to the tree of life
- 6:17 …that has the breath of life Everything on the earth…
- 7:11 …hundredth year of Noah’s life on the seventeenth day…
- 7:15 …creature with the breath of life
- 7:22 …had the breath of life in its nostrils died…
- 27:46 …Isaac I am weary of my life because of these Hittite…
- 27:46 …what good is my life
Leviticus 1
- 11:10 …among all the teeming life and creatures in the…
Deuteronomy 8
- 16:3 …remember for the rest of your life the day you left…
- 17:19 …it all the days of his life so that he may…
- 28:66 So your life will hang in doubt…
- 30:15 …set before you today life and prosperity as well…
- 30:19 …I have set before you life and death blessing and…
- 30:19 …and cursing Therefore choose life so that you and…
- 30:20 …Him For He is your life and He will prolong…
- 32:47 …to you because they are your life and by them you…
Joshua 2
Judges 1
- 16:30 …than he had killed in his life
1 Samuel 2
2 Samuel 1
- 1:23 …Jonathan beloved and delightful in life were not divided in…
1 Kings 3
2 Kings 2
Job 8
- 3:20 …given to the miserable and life to the bitter of…
- 7:7 …Remember that my life is but a breath…
- 10:1 …I loathe my own life I will express my…
- 10:12 …You have granted me life and loving devotion and…
- 24:22 …they have no assurance of life
- 33:18 …soul from the Pit and his life from perishing by the…
- 33:22 …near to the Pit and his life to the messengers of…
- 33:30 …enlightened with the light of life
Psalms 19
- 16:11 …to me the path of life You will fill me…
- 17:14 …the world whose portion is in this life May You fill the…
- 21:4 …He asked You for life and You granted it…
- 23:6 …me all the days of my life and I will dwell…
- 26:9 …soul away with sinners or my life with men of bloodshed…
- 27:1 …LORD is the stronghold of my life whom shall I dread…
- 27:4 …LORD all the days of my life to gaze on the…
- 31:10 …For my life is consumed with grief…
- 34:12 …man who delights in life who desires to see…
- 36:9 …You is the fountain of life in Your light we…
- 42:8 …prayer to the God of my life
- 56:13 …God in the light of life
- 64:1 …voice of complaint preserve my life from dread of the…
- 69:28 …out of the Book of Life and not listed with…
- 88:3 …is full of troubles and my life draws near to Sheol…
- 103:4 …who redeems your life from the Pit and…
- 128:5 …Jerusalem all the days of your life
- 133:3 …has bestowed the blessing of life forevermore…
- 143:3 …pursued my soul crushing my life to the ground making…
Proverbs 20
- 2:19 …or negotiate the paths of life
- 3:2 …days years and peace to your life
- 3:18 …She is a tree of life to those who embrace…
- 3:22 …They will be life to your soul and…
- 4:10 …words and the years of your life will be many…
- 4:13 …Guard it for it is your life
- 4:22 …For they are life to those who find…
- 5:6 …not consider the path of life she does not know…
- 6:23 …discipline are the way to life
- 8:35 …whoever finds me finds life and obtains the favor…
- 9:11 …years will be added to your life
- 10:11 …righteous is a fountain of life but the mouth of…
- 10:17 …is on the path to life but he who ignores…
- 11:30 …righteous is a tree of life and he who wins…
- 13:12 …fulfilled is a tree of life
- 13:14 …wise is a fountain of life turning one from the…
- 14:27 …LORD is a fountain of life turning a man from…
- 14:30 …A tranquil heart is life to the body but…
- 15:4 …tongue is a tree of life but a perverse tongue…
- 15:24 …The path of life leads upward for the…
And 23 more, on the full page.
“beasts” 46
Genesis 9
- 1:24 …kinds livestock land crawlers and beasts of the earth according…
- 1:25 …God made the beasts of the earth according…
- 1:30 …And to every beast of the earth and…
- 2:19 …LORD God formed every beast of the field and…
- 2:20 …air and to every beast of the field But…
- 3:1 …more crafty than any beast of the field that…
- 3:14 …all livestock and every beast of the field On…
- 9:5 …life of any man or beast by whose hand your…
- 9:10 …the livestock and every beast of the earth every…
2 Samuel 1
- 21:10 …them by day nor the beasts of the field by…
2 Kings 1
- 14:9 …marriage Then a wild beast in Lebanon came along…
2 Chronicles 1
- 25:18 …marriage Then a wild beast in Lebanon came along…
Job 2
Psalms 6
- 50:10 …for every beast of the forest is…
- 68:30 …Rebuke the beast in the reeds the…
- 74:19 …soul of Your dove to beasts do not forget the…
- 79:2 …flesh of Your saints to the beasts of the earth…
- 104:11 …give drink to every beast of the field the…
- 104:20 …becomes night when all the beasts of the forest prowl…
Isaiah 4
Jeremiah 3
Ezekiel 14
- 5:17 …send famine and wild beasts against you and they…
- 14:15 …if I send wild beasts through the land to…
- 14:15 …through it for fear of the beasts
- 14:21 …judgments sword famine wild beasts and plague in order…
- 29:5 …given you as food to the beasts of the earth and…
- 31:6 …its branches and all the beasts of the field gave…
- 31:13 …fallen trunk and all the beasts of the field lived…
- 32:4 …upon you and all the beasts of the earth to…
- 34:5 …for all the wild beasts
- 34:8 …food for every wild beast and because My shepherds…
- 34:28 …prey for the nations and the beasts of the earth will…
- 38:20 …birds of the air the beasts of the field every…
- 39:4 …ravenous bird and wild beast
- 39:17 …bird and to every beast of the field Assemble…
Hosea 4
Zephaniah 1
- 2:15 …become a resting place for beasts Everyone who passes by…
“live” 44
Exodus 1
- 21:35 …dies they must sell the live one and divide the…
Leviticus 8
- 14:4 …shall order that two live clean birds cedar wood…
- 14:6 …he is to take the live bird together with the…
- 14:7 …him clean and release the live bird into the open…
- 14:51 …hyssop the scarlet yarn and the live bird dip them in…
- 14:52 …blood the fresh water the live bird the cedar wood…
- 14:53 …he is to release the live bird into the open…
- 16:20 …is to bring forward the live goat…
- 16:21 …hands on the head of the live goat and confess over…
Numbers 2
Deuteronomy 5
1 Samuel 3
2 Samuel 1
- 14:19 …As surely as you live my lord the king…
1 Kings 1
- 8:40 …all the days they live in the land that…
2 Kings 3
2 Chronicles 1
- 6:31 …all the days they live in the land that…
Job 1
- 33:28 …down to the Pit and I will live to see the light…
Ecclesiastes 1
- 9:4 …the living for even a live dog is better than…
Isaiah 1
- 49:18 …As surely as I live declares the LORD you…
Jeremiah 2
Ezekiel 13
- 5:11 …as surely as I live declares the Lord GOD…
- 16:48 …As surely as I live declares the Lord GOD…
- 17:16 …As surely as I live declares the Lord GOD…
- 17:19 …says As surely as I live I will bring down…
- 18:3 …As surely as I live declares the Lord GOD…
- 20:3 …Me As surely as I live I will not be…
- 20:31 …Israel As surely as I live declares the Lord GOD…
- 20:33 …As surely as I live declares the Lord GOD…
- 33:11 …As surely as I live declares the Lord GOD…
- 33:27 …As surely as I live those in the ruins…
- 34:8 …As surely as I live declares the Lord GOD…
- 35:6 …as surely as I live declares the Lord GOD…
- 35:11 …as surely as I live declares the Lord GOD…
Zephaniah 1
- 2:9 …as surely as I live declares the LORD of…
“alive” 40
Genesis 8
- 25:6 …while he was still alive Abraham gave gifts to…
- 43:7 …Is your father still alive Do you have another…
- 43:27 …about Is he still alive
- 43:28 …answered He is still alive And they bowed down…
- 45:3 …Is my father still alive But they were unable…
- 45:26 …Joseph is still alive they said and he…
- 45:28 …son Joseph is still alive I will go to…
- 46:30 …that you are still alive
Exodus 2
Leviticus 1
- 16:10 …scapegoat shall be presented alive before the LORD to…
Numbers 2
Deuteronomy 2
Joshua 1
- 8:23 …the king of Ai alive and brought him to…
1 Samuel 1
- 15:8 …Agag king of Amalek alive but devoted all the…
2 Samuel 5
1 Kings 8
- 3:23 …woman says My son is alive and yours is dead…
- 3:23 …is dead and mine is alive
- 3:26 …the woman whose son was alive spoke to the king…
- 17:23 …mother Look your son is alive Elijah declared…
- 20:18 …he said take them alive Even if they have…
- 20:18 …for war take them alive
- 20:32 …answered Is he still alive He is my brother…
- 21:15 …Naboth is no longer alive but dead…
2 Kings 3
2 Chronicles 1
- 25:12 …Judah also captured men alive They took them to…
Psalms 3
Proverbs 1
- 1:12 …let us swallow them alive like Sheol and whole…
Ecclesiastes 1
- 4:2 …living who are still alive
Lamentations 1
- 3:53 …They dropped me alive into a pit and…
“animals” 14
“living creatures” 13
Genesis 2
Ezekiel 11
- 1:5 …the form of four living creatures And this was their…
- 1:13 …In the midst of the living creatures was the appearance of…
- 1:13 …back and forth between the living creatures it was bright and…
- 1:15 …When I looked at the living creatures I saw a wheel…
- 1:20 …them because the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels…
- 1:21 …them because the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels…
- 1:22 …out above the heads of the living creatures was the likeness of…
- 3:13 …sound of the wings of the living creatures brushing against one another…
- 10:15 …cherubim rose upward These were the living creatures I had seen by…
- 10:17 …them for the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels…
- 10:20 …These were the living creatures I had seen beneath…
“fresh” 8
Genesis 1
- 26:19 …and found a well of fresh water there…
Leviticus 6
- 14:5 …birds be slaughtered over fresh water in a clay…
- 14:6 …that was slaughtered over the fresh water…
- 14:50 …of the birds over fresh water in a clay…
- 14:51 …of the slaughtered bird and the fresh water and sprinkle the…
- 14:52 …with the bird’s blood the fresh water the live bird…
- 15:13 …clothes and bathe himself in fresh water and he shall…
Song of Songs 1
- 4:15 …garden spring a well of fresh water flowing down from…
“wild animals” 7
Genesis 1
- 7:14 …and every kind of wild animal livestock crawling creature bird…
Exodus 1
- 23:11 …eat from the field and the wild animals may consume what they…
Leviticus 2
Job 1
- 37:8 The wild animals enter their lairs they…
Psalms 1
- 148:10 wild animals and all cattle crawling…
Ezekiel 1
- 33:27 …give to be devoured by wild animals and those in the…
“living thing” 5
Genesis 1
- 9:10 …of the earth every living thing that came out of…
Job 2
Psalms 2
“raw” 5
“creatures” 4
“yourself live” 3
“lifetime” 3
“leads to life” 3
“as i live” 3
“living creature” 2
“years” 2
“living one is” 2
“next year” 2
“all my life” 2
“there is life” 2
“both remain alive” 2
“creature” 1
Genesis 1
- 1:28 …the air and every creature that crawls upon the…
“each living” 1
Genesis 1
- 2:19 …whatever the man called each living creature that was its…
“time next year” 1
Genesis 1
- 18:10 …surely return to you at this time next year and your wife Sarah…
“about a year” 1
Genesis 1
- 18:14 …will return to you in about a year and Sarah will have…
“lived to be” 1
Genesis 1
- 23:1 …Now Sarah lived to be years old…
“old” 1
Genesis 1
- 23:1 …lived to be years old
“length of his life” 1
Genesis 1
- 47:28 …of Egypt seventeen years and the length of his life was years…
“made their lives” 1
Exodus 1
- 1:14 and made their lives bitter with hard labor…
“ones” 1
Leviticus 1
- 11:2 …beasts of the earth these ones you may eat…
“those” 1
Leviticus 1
- 11:47 …that may be eaten and those that may not…
“there is raw” 1
Leviticus 1
- 13:10 …turned the hair white and there is raw flesh in the swelling…
Not matched to an English word 1
Leviticus 1
“wild” 1
Leviticus 1
- 17:13 …among them hunts down a wild animal or bird that…
“while your wife is still alive” 1
Leviticus 1
- 18:18 …sexual relations with her while your wife is still alive
“pour fresh” 1
Numbers 1
- 19:17 …them in a jar and pour fresh water over them…
“other livestock” 1
Numbers 1
- 35:3 …their flocks and all their other livestock
“long as you live” 1
Deuteronomy 1
- 4:9 …from your heart as long as you live Teach them to your…
“us who are alive” 1
Deuteronomy 1
- 5:3 …fathers but with all of us who are alive here today…
“survival” 1
Deuteronomy 1
- 28:66 …and day never certain of survival
“family” 1
1 Samuel 1
- 18:18 …am I and what is my family or my father’s clan…
“long life to you” 1
1 Samuel 1
- 25:6 …and say to him Long life to you and peace to you…
“as surely as you live” 1
2 Samuel 1
- 11:11 …sleep with my wife As surely as you live and as your soul…
“means life” 1
2 Samuel 1
- 15:21 …king may be whether it means life or death there will…
“during his lifetime” 1
2 Samuel 1
- 18:18 During his lifetime Absalom had set up…
“life remain” 1
2 Samuel 1
- 19:34 …replied How many years of my life remain that I should go…
“near” 1
2 Samuel 1
- 23:11 …Philistines had banded together near a field full of…
“while a company” 1
2 Samuel 1
- 23:13 …the cave of Adullam while a company of Philistines was encamped…
“abijam’s life” 1
1 Kings 1
- 15:6 …Jeroboam all the days of Abijam’s life
“own life” 1
Job 1
- 9:21 …for myself I despise my own life
“he” 1
Job 1
- 33:20 so that he detests his bread and…
“hunger” 1
Job 1
- 38:39 …a lioness or satisfy the hunger of young lions…
“me” 1
Psalms 1
- 7:5 …me may he trample me to the ground and…
“lasts a lifetime” 1
Psalms 1
- 30:5 …fleeting but His favor lasts a lifetime Weeping may stay the…
“without cause” 1
Psalms 1
- 38:19 …Many are my enemies without cause and many hate me…
“whether green” 1
Psalms 1
- 58:9 …feel the burning thorns whether green or dry He will…
“than life” 1
Psalms 1
- 63:3 …loving devotion is better than life my lips will glorify…
“as long as i live” 1
Psalms 1
- 63:4 …I will bless You as long as I live in Your name I…
“flock” 1
Psalms 1
- 68:10 Your flock settled therein O God…
“springs of life” 1
Proverbs 1
- 4:23 …for from it flow springs of life
“life giving” 1
Proverbs 1
- 15:31 …He who listens to life-giving reproof will dwell among…
“nourishment” 1
Proverbs 1
- 27:27 …food for your household and nourishment for your maidservants…
“while they live” 1
Ecclesiastes 1
- 3:12 …rejoice and do good while they live
“who lived” 1
Ecclesiastes 1
- 4:15 …I saw that all who lived and walked under the…
“others” 1
Ecclesiastes 1
- 6:8 …to conduct himself before others
“while they are alive” 1
Ecclesiastes 1
- 9:3 …of evil and madness while they are alive and afterward they join…
“makes life” 1
Ecclesiastes 1
- 10:19 …for laughter and wine makes life merry but money is…
“among the living” 1
Isaiah 1
- 4:3 …Jerusalem who are recorded among the living
“finds life” 1
Isaiah 1
- 38:16 …of them my spirit finds life You have restored me…
“only the living” 1
Isaiah 1
- 38:19 …The living only the living can thank You as…
“nor its animals” 1
Isaiah 1
- 40:16 …not sufficient for fuel nor its animals enough for a burnt…
“weigh down beasts” 1
Isaiah 1
- 46:1 …Nebo cowers Their idols weigh down beasts and cattle The images…
“renewal” 1
Isaiah 1
- 57:10 …no hope You found renewal of your strength therefore…
“should any mortal” 1
Lamentations 1
- 3:39 …Why should any mortal man complain in view…
“each creature” 1
Ezekiel 1
- 1:15 …on the ground beside each creature with its four faces…
“as the living creatures” 1
Ezekiel 1
- 1:19 So as the living creatures moved the wheels moved…
“when the creatures” 1
Ezekiel 1
- 1:19 …wheels moved beside them and when the creatures rose from the ground…
“him who lives” 1
Daniel 1
- 12:7 …I heard him swear by Him who lives forever saying It will…
“one of life” 1
Malachi 1
- 2:5 …covenant with him was one of life and peace which I…
The Hebrew and Greek words, their glosses and grammar: STEP Bible (CC BY 4.0). The English: the Berean Standard Bible, which also gives which English words render which. Counts are ours.