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 Kings 3:23: "thy son is the dead, and my son is the living."
1 Kings 3:25: "said, Divide the living in two, and give"
1 Kings 3:26: "Then spoke the woman whose the living child the king, for"
1 Kings 3:26: "my lord, give her the living child, and in no wise slay"
1 Kings 3:27: "and said, Give her the living child, and in no wise slay"
1 Kings 4:21: "Solomon all the days of his life."
1 Kings 8:40: "the days that live in the land which"
1 Kings 11:34: "I will make him prince all the days of his life for David my servant's sake,"
1 Kings 12:6: "Solomon his father while he yet lived, and said, How do ye advise"
1 Kings 15:5: "from any thing that he commanded him all the days of his life, save only in the matter"
1 Kings 15:6: "and Jeroboam the days of his life."
1 Kings 17:1: "Ahab, As the LORD God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand,"
1 Kings 17:12: "And she said, As the LORD thy God liveth, I have a cake, but"
1 Kings 17:23: "said, See, thy son liveth."
1 Kings 18:10: "As the LORD thy God liveth, there is no or kingdom, whither"
1 Kings 18:15: "said, As the LORD of hosts liveth, whom I stand, I will surely"
1 Kings 20:18: "they be come out for peace, take them alive; or whether they be come out for war, take"
1 Kings 20:18: "they be come out for war, take them alive."
1 Kings 20:32: "live. And he said, Is he yet alive? he is my brother."
1 Kings 21:15: "for Naboth is not alive, but dead."
1 Kings 22:14: "And Micaiah said, As the LORD liveth, what saith unto"
2 Kings 2:2: "And Elisha said unto him, As the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave"
2 Kings 2:2: "unto him, As the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. So they went down to Bethel."
2 Kings 2:4: "me to Jericho. And he said, As the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave"
2 Kings 2:4: "As the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. So they came to Jericho."
2 Kings 2:6: "me to Jordan. And he said, As the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave"
2 Kings 2:6: "As the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. And they two went on."
2 Kings 3:14: "said, As the LORD of hosts liveth, whom I stand, surely,"
2 Kings 4:16: "About this season, according to the time of life, shalt embrace a son. And she said,"
2 Kings 4:17: "had said unto her, according to the time of life."
2 Kings 4:30: "of the child said, As the LORD liveth, liveth, I will not leave"
2 Kings 4:30: "As the LORD liveth, liveth, I will not leave thee. And he arose, and followed"
2 Kings 5:16: "But he said, As the LORD liveth, before whom I will receive none. And he urged"
2 Kings 5:20: "that which he brought: but, as the LORD liveth, I will run"
2 Kings 7:12: "of the city, we shall catch them alive, and get into the city."
2 Kings 10:14: "And he said, Take them alive. And they took them alive, them at the pit"
2 Kings 10:14: "Take them alive. And they took them alive, them at the pit of the shearing house,"
2 Kings 14:9: "to wife: and there passed by a wild beast that was in Lebanon, and trod down"
2 Kings 19:4: "his master hath sent to reproach the living God; and will reprove the words which"
2 Kings 19:16: "which hath sent him to reproach the living God."
2 Kings 25:29: "before him all the days of his life."
2 Kings 25:30: "rate for every day, all the days of his life."
2 Chronicles 6:31: "so long they live in the land"
2 Chronicles 10:6: "before Solomon his father while he yet lived, while he yet lived, saying, What counsel give"
2 Chronicles 18:13: "And Micaiah said, As the LORD liveth, even what my God"
2 Chronicles 25:12: "And other ten thousand left alive did the children of Judah and brought them unto the top"
2 Chronicles 25:18: "to wife: and there passed by a wild beast that was in Lebanon, and trod down"
Job 3:20: "is light given to him that is in misery, and life in soul;"
Job 5:22: "thou shalt laugh: neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth."
Job 5:23: "with the stones of the field: and the beasts of the field shall be at peace"
