Strong's #2465: cheled (pronounced kheh'-led)
from an unused root apparently meaning to glide swiftly; life (as a fleeting portion of time); hence, the world (as transient):--age, short time, world.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
cheled
1) age, duration of life, the world
Part of Speech: noun masculine
Relation: from an unused root apparently meaning to glide swiftly
Usage:
This word is used 5 times:
Job 11:17: " And thine age shall be clearer than the noonday; thou shalt shine forth, thou shalt be as the morning."
Psalms 17:14: "which are thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world, of the world, which have their portion"
Psalms 39:5: "thou hast made my days as a handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every"
Psalms 49:1: "give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world:"
Psalms 89:47: "how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all"