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חַי

chay

kinsfolk

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Strong’s H2416bNoun, masculine1 time in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

are kinsfolk1

In the text

1 Samuel 18:18חַיַּי
And David said to Saul, “Who am I, and what is my family or my father’s clan in Israel, that I should become the son-in-law of the king?”

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[חַי] n.[m.] kinsfolk, pl. sf. 1 S 18:18

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.