Spelling and Pronunciation
The most common spelling is "Chai", but the word is occasionally also spelled "Hai". The usual modern pronunciation of this word is, while a transcription of the Biblical and Mishnaic pronunciation would have likely been (with a pharyngeal consonant).
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