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:
Job 7:7: "O remember that my life is wind: mine eye more see"
Job 9:21: "know my soul: my life."
Job 10:1: "My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint myself; I will speak in the bitterness"
Job 10:12: "Thou hast granted me life and favor, and thy visitation hath preserved"
Job 12:10: "hand is the soul of every living thing, of all mankind."
Job 19:25: "For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand day upon the earth:"
Job 24:22: "he riseth up, and no of life."
Job 27:2: "As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment; and the Almighty, my soul;"
Job 28:13: "thereof; neither in the land of the living."
Job 28:21: "Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close"
Job 30:23: "and to the house for all living."
Job 33:18: "his soul from the pit, and his life by the sword."
Job 33:20: " So that his life abhorreth bread, and his soul dainty"
Job 33:22: "Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave, and his life to the destroyers."
Job 33:28: "his soul from going into the pit, and his life the light."
Job 33:30: "the pit, to be enlightened of the living."
Job 36:14: "They die in youth, and their life is among the unclean."
Job 37:8: " Then the beasts go into dens, and remain"
Job 38:39: "the prey for the lion? or fill the appetite"
Job 39:15: "the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may break"
Job 40:20: "food, where the beasts of the field play."
Psalms 7:5: "my soul, and take it; yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay mine honor in the dust."
Psalms 16:11: "Thou wilt show me the path of life: in thy presence of joy; at thy right hand"
Psalms 17:14: "O LORD, from men of the world, in this life, and whose belly"
Psalms 18:46: "The LORD liveth; and blessed be my rock; and let the God be exalted."
Psalms 21:4: "He asked life of thee, and thou gavest it him, even length forever and ever."
Psalms 23:6: "shall follow me all of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever."
Psalms 26:9: "my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men:"
Psalms 27:1: "whom the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?"
Psalms 27:4: "in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD,"
Psalms 27:13: "the goodness of the LORD of the living."
Psalms 30:5: "his anger endureth but a moment; in his favor is life: may endure for a night, but joy"
Psalms 31:10: "For my life is spent with grief, and my years my strength faileth"
Psalms 34:12: "What man is he that desireth life, and loveth that he may see good?"
Psalms 36:9: "For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light light."
Psalms 38:19: "But mine enemies are lively, and they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully"
Psalms 42:2: "My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: shall I come and appear"
Psalms 42:8: "shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life."
Psalms 49:18: "Though while he lived he blessed his soul: and men will praise thou doest well"
Psalms 50:10: "For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle hills."
Psalms 52:5: "of thy dwelling place, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah."
Psalms 55:15: "seize upon them, and let them go down quick for wickedness is in their dwellings,"
Psalms 56:13: "from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living."
Psalms 58:9: "the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, living, and in his wrath."
Psalms 63:3: "Because thy lovingkindness is better than life, than life, my lips"
Psalms 63:4: "Thus will I bless thee while I live: I will lift up my hands"
Psalms 64:1: "in my prayer: preserve my life from fear of the enemy."
Psalms 66:9: "Which holdeth our soul in life, and suffereth not to be moved."
Psalms 68:10: " Thy congregation hath dwelt therein: thou, O God, hast prepared of thy goodness"
Psalms 68:30: "Rebuke the company of spearmen, the multitude of the bulls, of the people, till every one submit himself"
