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 · foul in a religious sense
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חַי · טָמֵא is a Hebrew phrase meaning "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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חַי · טָמֵא is a Hebrew phrase meaning "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".
H2416, H2931 is connected to 591 lexical occurrence verses in the lexicon data.
Hebrew phrase. 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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חַיָּה טְמֵאָה is built from this root:
Greek words that correspond to or develop the meaning of this Hebrew word in the New Testament.