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:
Leviticus 15:13: "and wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in running water, and shall be clean."
Leviticus 16:10: "fell shall be presented alive before the LORD, to make an atonement with"
Leviticus 16:20: "and the altar, he shall bring the live goat:"
Leviticus 16:21: "his hands the head of the live goat, and confess over him"
Leviticus 17:13: "among you, which hunteth and catcheth any beast or fowl"
Leviticus 18:18: "her, to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her life"
Leviticus 25:7: "And for thy cattle, and for the beast that are in thy land, shall all thereof be meat."
Leviticus 26:6: "and I will rid evil beasts out of the land, neither shall the sword"
Leviticus 26:22: "I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children,"
Numbers 14:21: "But as truly as I live, all shall be filled with the glory"
Numbers 14:28: "Say unto them, As truly as I live, saith as ye have spoken"
Numbers 16:30: "and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down quick into the pit; then ye shall understand that"
Numbers 16:33: "and all that appertained to them, went down alive and the earth closed upon"
Numbers 16:48: "And he stood between the dead and the living; and the plague"
Numbers 19:17: "of the ashes of the burnt heifer of purification for sin, and running water shall be put thereto"
Numbers 35:3: "and for their goods, and for all their beasts."
Deuteronomy 4:4: "that did cleave unto the LORD your God are alive of you this day."
Deuteronomy 4:9: "from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons'"
Deuteronomy 4:10: "to fear me all the days that they shall live upon the earth,"
Deuteronomy 5:3: "who are all of us here alive this day."
Deuteronomy 5:26: "that the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst"
Deuteronomy 6:2: "son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged."
Deuteronomy 7:22: "not consume them at once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon"
Deuteronomy 12:1: "the days that ye live upon the earth."
Deuteronomy 16:3: "out of the land of Egypt all the days of thy life."
Deuteronomy 17:19: "him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life: that he may learn to fear"
Deuteronomy 28:66: " And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt fear and night,"
Deuteronomy 28:66: "thee; and thou shalt fear and night, and shalt have none assurance of thy life:"
Deuteronomy 30:6: "and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live."
Deuteronomy 30:15: "before thee this day life and good, and death and evil;"
Deuteronomy 30:19: "to record this day before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose"
Deuteronomy 30:19: "blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:"
Deuteronomy 30:20: "and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in"
Deuteronomy 31:13: "your God, as long as ye live in the land"
Deuteronomy 31:27: "neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, ye have been rebellious"
Deuteronomy 32:40: "heaven, I live forever."
Deuteronomy 32:47: "you; because it is your life: and through this thing ye shall prolong your days"
Joshua 1:5: "before thee all of thy life: as I was with Moses,"
Joshua 3:10: "Hereby ye shall know that the living God is among you, and that he will without fail drive out"
Joshua 4:14: "Moses, all the days of his life."
Joshua 8:23: "And the king of Ai they took alive, and brought Joshua."
Judges 8:19: "even the sons of my mother: liveth, if ye had saved them alive, I would not"
Judges 16:30: "more than they which he slew in his life."
Ruth 2:20: "left off his kindness to the living and to the dead. And Naomi said"
Ruth 3:13: "to thee, then will I do the part of a kinsman to thee, as the LORD liveth: lie down until the morning."
1 Samuel 1:11: "then I will give him unto the LORD all the days of his life, and there shall no razor come"
1 Samuel 1:26: "Oh my lord, as thy soul liveth, I am the woman that stood"
1 Samuel 2:15: "sodden flesh of thee, but raw."
1 Samuel 7:15: "Israel all of his life."
1 Samuel 14:39: "For, as the LORD liveth, which saveth though"
