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:
Genesis 27:46: "to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth:"
Genesis 27:46: "of Heth, such as these which are of the daughters of the land, what good shall my life"
Genesis 37:20: "and we will say, Some evil beast hath devoured him: and we shall see what will become"
Genesis 37:33: "It is my son's coat; an evil beast hath devoured him; Joseph is without doubt rent in pieces."
Genesis 42:15: "Hereby ye shall be proved: By the life of Pharaoh ye shall not go forth except"
Genesis 42:16: "whether there be any truth in you: or else by the life of Pharaoh surely ye"
Genesis 43:7: "of our state, and of our kindred, saying, yet alive? have ye another brother? and we told"
Genesis 43:27: "of whom ye spoke? Is he yet alive?"
Genesis 43:28: "our father is in good health, he is yet alive. And they bowed down their heads, and made obeisance."
Genesis 45:3: "doth my father yet live? And his brethren could not answer"
Genesis 45:26: "him, saying, Joseph is yet alive, is governor over all the land"
Genesis 45:28: "Joseph my son alive: I will go and see him before I die."
Genesis 46:30: "thy face, because thou art yet alive."
Genesis 47:8: "unto Jacob, How old"
Genesis 47:9: "and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto"
Genesis 47:9: "the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage."
Genesis 47:28: "of Egypt seventeen so the whole age so the whole age of Jacob"
Exodus 1:14: "And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, and in brick, and in all manner"
Exodus 4:18: "are in Egypt, and see whether they be yet alive. And Jethro said to Moses, Go"
Exodus 6:16: "and Kohath, and Merari: and the years of the life of Levi were a hundred thirty and seven"
Exodus 6:18: "and Hebron, and the years of the life of Kohath were a hundred thirty and three"
Exodus 6:20: "Aaron and Moses: and the years of the life of Amram were a hundred and thirty and seven"
Exodus 21:35: "that he die; then they shall sell the live ox, and divide"
Exodus 22:4: "the theft be certainly found in his hand alive, or"
Exodus 23:11: "of thy people and what they leave the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal"
Exodus 23:29: "the land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against"
Leviticus 5:2: "whether it be a carcass of an unclean beast, or a carcass of unclean cattle,"
Leviticus 11:2: "of Israel, saying, are the beasts which ye shall eat among all"
Leviticus 11:10: "of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing which"
Leviticus 11:27: "upon his paws, among all manner of beasts that go on all four, those"
Leviticus 11:46: "of the beasts, and of the fowl, and of every living creature that moveth in the waters, and of every"
Leviticus 11:47: "the unclean and the clean, and between the beast that may be eaten and the beast that may not"
Leviticus 11:47: "and between that may be eaten and the beast that may not be eaten."
Leviticus 13:10: "the hair white, and there be quick raw flesh in the rising;"
Leviticus 13:14: "But when raw flesh appeareth in him, he shall be unclean."
Leviticus 13:15: "And the priest shall see the raw flesh, for the raw flesh"
Leviticus 13:15: "the raw flesh, for the raw flesh is unclean: it is a leprosy."
Leviticus 13:16: "Or if the raw flesh turn again, unto white, he shall come"
Leviticus 14:4: "for him that is to be cleansed two alive and clean, and cedar wood, and scarlet,"
Leviticus 14:5: "an earthen vessel over running water:"
Leviticus 14:6: "As for the living bird, he shall take it, and the cedar and the scarlet,"
Leviticus 14:6: "and the scarlet, and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird"
Leviticus 14:6: "in the blood of the bird that was killed over the running water:"
Leviticus 14:7: "times, and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let the living bird loose into the open"
Leviticus 14:50: "vessel over running water:"
Leviticus 14:51: "wood, and the hyssop, and the living bird, and dip them in the blood"
Leviticus 14:51: "and dip them in the blood of the slain bird, and in the running water, and sprinkle"
Leviticus 14:52: "the house with the blood of the bird, and with the running water, and with the living bird, and with the cedar"
Leviticus 14:52: "of the bird, water, and with the living bird, and with the cedar wood, and with the hyssop,"
Leviticus 14:53: "But he shall let go the living bird out of"
