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:
1 Samuel 14:45: "in Israel? God forbid: as the LORD liveth, there shall not one hair of his head"
1 Samuel 15:8: "Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge"
1 Samuel 17:26: "Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?"
1 Samuel 17:36: "them, seeing he hath defied the armies of the living God."
1 Samuel 17:46: "this day unto the fowls of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the earth"
1 Samuel 17:55: "And Abner said, As thy soul liveth, O king, I cannot tell."
1 Samuel 18:18: "Who and what is my life, or my father's family in Israel, that"
1 Samuel 19:6: "and Saul As the LORD liveth, he shall not be slain."
1 Samuel 20:3: "lest he be grieved: but truly as the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth,"
1 Samuel 20:3: "but truly as the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, there is but a step"
1 Samuel 20:14: "And thou shalt not only while yet I live show of the LORD,"
1 Samuel 20:21: "thou: for there is peace to thee, and no hurt; as the LORD liveth."
1 Samuel 20:31: "as long as the son of Jesse liveth upon the ground, thou"
1 Samuel 25:6: "And thus shall ye say to him that liveth in prosperity, Peace be both to thee, be to thine house, and peace"
1 Samuel 25:26: "Now therefore, my lord, as the LORD liveth, and as thy soul seeing the LORD"
1 Samuel 25:26: "as the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, seeing the LORD hath withheld thee from coming"
1 Samuel 25:29: "shall be bound in the bundle of life with the LORD thy God; and the souls"
1 Samuel 25:34: "as the LORD God of Israel liveth, hath kept me back from hurting"
1 Samuel 26:10: "said furthermore, As the LORD liveth, shall smite him; or"
1 Samuel 26:16: "that As the LORD liveth, ye are worthy to die, because"
1 Samuel 28:10: "to her by the LORD, saying, As the LORD liveth, there shall no punishment happen to thee for this"
1 Samuel 29:6: "David, and said unto liveth, thou hast been upright, and thy going out"
2 Samuel 1:23: "and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, they were not divided: they were swifter"
2 Samuel 2:27: "And Joab said, As God liveth, unless surely"
2 Samuel 4:9: "the Beerothite, and said unto them, As the LORD liveth, who hath redeemed my soul"
2 Samuel 11:11: "and to lie with my wife? as thou livest, and as thy soul liveth, I will not do"
2 Samuel 11:11: "my wife? as thou livest, and as thy soul liveth, I will not do this thing."
2 Samuel 12:5: "to Nathan, As the LORD liveth, the man that hath done this thing shall surely die:"
2 Samuel 12:18: "Behold, while the child was yet alive, we spoke unto him, and he would not hearken"
2 Samuel 12:21: "and weep for the child, while it was alive; but when the child was dead, thou didst rise"
2 Samuel 12:22: "And he said, While the child was yet alive, I fasted for I said,"
2 Samuel 12:22: "whether GOD will be gracious to me, that the child may live?"
2 Samuel 14:11: "my son. And he said, As the LORD liveth, there shall not one hair of thy son"
2 Samuel 14:19: "answered and said, As thy soul liveth, my lord the king, none can turn"
2 Samuel 15:21: "the king, and said, liveth, and as my lord the king liveth, surely"
2 Samuel 15:21: "liveth, and as my lord the king liveth, surely in what place"
2 Samuel 15:21: "shall be, whether in death or life, even there also will thy servant"
2 Samuel 18:14: "them through the heart of Absalom, while he was yet alive in the midst of the oak."
2 Samuel 18:18: "Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself which is in the king's"
2 Samuel 19:6: "that if Absalom had lived, and all we had died this day, then"
2 Samuel 19:34: "the king, How have I to live, that I should go up with"
2 Samuel 21:10: "of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night."
2 Samuel 22:47: "The LORD liveth; and blessed be my rock; and exalted of the rock of my salvation."
2 Samuel 23:11: "the Hararite. were gathered together into a troop, where was a piece of ground"
2 Samuel 23:13: "unto the cave of Adullam: and the troop of the Philistines pitched in the valley of Rephaim."
1 Kings 1:29: "swore, and said, As the LORD liveth, hath redeemed my soul"
1 Kings 2:24: "Now therefore, as the LORD liveth, which hath established me on the throne"
1 Kings 3:22: "said, Nay; but the living is my son, and the dead is thy son. And this"
1 Kings 3:22: "but the dead is thy son, and the living is my son. Thus they spoke before the king."
1 Kings 3:23: "saith, This that liveth, and thy son is the dead: and the other saith,"
