Words the Bible translates as alive

English uses one word here. The Bible uses 2 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.

ḥayחַיalive, living: having life rather than being dead.
+3 more meanings
- as surely as someone lives: the fixed opening of a sworn oath.
- a living thing: an animal, most often a wild one.
- life: being alive, and the full, flourishing life that God gives.
ḥayחַיalive: living rather than dead. It describes God as the one who is genuinely alive, names people as "the living," and in the plural stands on its own for life itself.

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