What does אֶרֶץ · חַי mean in the Bible?
אֶרֶץ · חַי is a Hebrew phrase meaning "land of the living".
Hebrew · H776, H2416
אֶרֶץ הַחַיִּים
The earth (at large, or partitively a land ) · 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
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אֶרֶץ H776 the earth (at large, or partitively a land )
Pronunciation erets
Physical ground and soil extend metaphorically to inhabited territory, nation, and cosmic order under divine rule.
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חַי H2416 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
Pronunciation ḥay
Life principle extending from physical vitality (raw, fresh, strong) to covenantal presence and relational aliveness with God.
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What does אֶרֶץ הַחַיִּים (erets hachayyim) mean in the Bible?
אֶרֶץ · חַי is a Hebrew phrase meaning "land of the living".
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How many biblical occurrences are listed for H776, H2416?
H776, H2416 is connected to 3,008 lexical occurrence verses in the lexicon data.
Evidence Summary
Hebrew phrase. land of the living
Strong's H776, H2416
Lexical occurrences 3,008 verses Source Gloss
land of the living
Grammatical Forms
How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
Cross-Language Connections
Greek words that correspond to or develop the meaning of this Hebrew word in the New Testament.
Sources
MorphGNT Strong's Dictionary XML — CC0 1.0 Public Domain
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible (morphhb/OSHB) — CC BY 4.0
Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon — CC BY 4.0
Berean Standard Bible (BSB) source-word alignment - CC0 Public Domain