Strong's #2416: chay (pronounced khah'-ee)
from 2421; 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:--+ age, alive, appetite, (wild) beast, company, congregation, life(-time), live(-ly), living (creature, thing), maintenance, + merry, multitude, + (be) old, quick, raw, running, springing, troop.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
chay
1) living, alive (adjective)
1a) green (of vegetation)
1b) flowing, fresh (of water)
1c) lively, active (of man)
1d) reviving (of the springtime)
2) relatives (noun masculine)
3) life (abstract emphatic) (noun masculine)
3a) life
3b) sustenance, maintenance
4) living thing, animal (noun feminine)
4a) animal
4b) life
4c) appetite
4d) revival, renewal
5) community (noun feminine)
Part of Speech: see above in Definition
Relation: from H2421
Usage:
This word is used 502 times:
Ezekiel 17:16: "As I live, saith the Lord GOD, in the place"
Ezekiel 17:19: "the Lord GOD; live, surely mine oath that"
Ezekiel 18:3: "As I live, saith the Lord GOD, have occasion any more"
Ezekiel 20:3: "come to inquire of me? As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will not"
Ezekiel 20:31: "by you, O house of Israel? As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will not"
Ezekiel 20:33: "As I live, saith the Lord GOD, with a mighty"
Ezekiel 26:20: "inhabited; and I shall set glory in the land of the living;"
Ezekiel 29:5: "gathered: I have given thee for meat to the beasts of the field and to the fowls of the heaven."
Ezekiel 31:6: "his branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young, and under his shadow dwelt"
Ezekiel 31:13: "of the heaven and all the beasts of the field shall be upon his branches:"
Ezekiel 32:4: "to remain upon thee, and I will fill the beasts of the whole earth with"
Ezekiel 32:23: "caused terror in the land of the living."
Ezekiel 32:24: "caused their terror in the land of the living; yet have they borne their shame with them that go down"
Ezekiel 32:25: "their terror was caused in the land of the living, yet have they borne their shame with them that go down"
Ezekiel 32:26: "they caused their terror in the land of the living."
Ezekiel 32:27: "though they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living."
Ezekiel 32:32: "my terror in the land of the living: and he shall be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised with"
Ezekiel 33:11: "Say unto them, As I live, saith GOD, I have no pleasure"
Ezekiel 33:15: "that he had robbed, in the statutes of life, without committing iniquity; he shall surely live,"
Ezekiel 33:27: "GOD; As I live, surely they that are in the wastes"
Ezekiel 33:27: "is in the open field will I give to the beasts to be devoured, and they that be in the forts"
Ezekiel 34:5: "shepherd: and they became meat the beasts of the field, when they were scattered."
Ezekiel 34:8: "As I live, saith the Lord GOD, because"
Ezekiel 34:8: "and my flock became meat to every beast of the field, because there was no"
Ezekiel 34:25: "with them a covenant of peace, and will cause the evil beasts out of the land: and they shall dwell"
Ezekiel 34:28: "a prey to the heathen, shall the beast of the land devour them; but they shall dwell safely,"
Ezekiel 35:6: "Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord I will prepare thee unto blood,"
Ezekiel 35:11: "Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord I will even do according to thine anger,"
Ezekiel 38:20: "of the sea, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts and all creeping things that creep"
Ezekiel 39:4: "birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured."
Ezekiel 39:17: "feathered fowl, and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves"
Ezekiel 47:9: "And it shall come to pass, that every thing that liveth, which whithersoever"
Ezekiel 47:9: "these waters shall come thither: for they shall be healed; and every thing shall live whither"
Daniel 8:4: "and southward; so that no beasts might stand before him, neither"
Daniel 12:2: "of the earth shall awake, to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting"
Daniel 12:7: "and his left hand unto heaven, and swore by him that liveth forever that it shall be for a time,"
Hosea 1:10: "my people, there it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living God."
Hosea 2:12: "have given me: and I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat"
Hosea 2:18: "will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven,"
Hosea 4:3: "mourn, and every one that dwelleth with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven;"
Hosea 4:15: "nor swear, The LORD liveth."
Hosea 13:8: "will I devour them like a lion: the wild beast shall tear"
Amos 8:14: "and say, Thy god, liveth; and, The manner of Beer-sheba liveth; even they shall fall,"
Amos 8:14: "liveth; and, The manner of Beer-sheba liveth; even they shall fall, and never rise up again."
Jonah 2:6: "me forever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O LORD my God."
Jonah 4:3: "me; for it is better for me to die than to live. than to live."
Jonah 4:8: "and said, It is better for me to die than to live. than to live."
Zephaniah 2:9: "Therefore as I live, saith the LORD the God of Israel,"
Zephaniah 2:14: "shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts both the cormorant and"
Zephaniah 2:15: "me: how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! every one that passeth by"
