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:
Psalms 69:28: "Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written the righteous."
Psalms 74:19: "not the soul of thy turtledove unto the multitude not the congregation of thy poor"
Psalms 74:19: "unto the multitude not the congregation of thy poor forever."
Psalms 78:50: "from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;"
Psalms 79:2: "of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth."
Psalms 84:2: "and my flesh crieth out for the living God."
Psalms 88:3: "my soul is full of troubles: and my life unto the grave."
Psalms 103:4: "Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness"
Psalms 104:11: "They give drink to every beast of the field: the wild asses their thirst."
Psalms 104:20: "and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep"
Psalms 104:25: "innumerable, both small and great beasts."
Psalms 104:33: "I will sing unto the LORD as long as I live: I will sing praise to my God"
Psalms 116:9: "before the LORD in the land of the living."
Psalms 124:3: "Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled"
Psalms 128:5: "the good all the days of thy life."
Psalms 133:3: "the LORD commanded the blessing, even life forevermore."
Psalms 142:5: "and my portion in the land of the living."
Psalms 143:2: "in thy sight shall no man living be justified."
Psalms 143:3: "hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long"
Psalms 145:16: "and satisfiest the desire living thing."
Psalms 146:2: " While I live will I praise the LORD: I will sing praises unto my God"
Psalms 148:10: " Beasts, and all cattle; creeping things, and flying"
Proverbs 1:12: "Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down"
Proverbs 2:19: "her return again, neither take they hold of life."
Proverbs 3:2: "length of days, and long life, shall they add"
Proverbs 3:18: "She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy"
Proverbs 3:22: "So shall they be life unto thy soul, and grace to thy neck."
Proverbs 4:10: "and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many."
Proverbs 4:13: "keep she is thy life."
Proverbs 4:22: "For they are life unto those that find them, and health their flesh."
Proverbs 4:23: "diligence; for it are the issues of life."
Proverbs 5:6: "Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways that thou canst not know"
Proverbs 6:23: "of instruction are the way of life:"
Proverbs 8:35: "For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain of the LORD."
Proverbs 9:11: "by me thy days shall be multiplied, and the years of thy life"
Proverbs 10:11: "The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence the mouth of the wicked."
Proverbs 10:16: "The labor of the righteous tendeth to life: the fruit of the wicked"
Proverbs 10:17: "He is in the way of life that keepeth instruction: but he that refuseth erreth."
Proverbs 11:19: "As righteousness tendeth to life: so he that pursueth evil"
Proverbs 11:30: "The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that winneth is wise."
Proverbs 12:28: "In the way of righteousness is life; and in the pathway thereof there is no"
Proverbs 13:12: "but when the desire it is a tree of life."
Proverbs 13:14: "The law of the wise is a fountain of life, to depart of death."
Proverbs 14:27: "The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, to depart of death."
Proverbs 14:30: "A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy of the bones."
Proverbs 15:4: "A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness in the spirit."
Proverbs 15:24: "The way of life is above to the wise, that from hell"
Proverbs 15:31: "The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth the wise."
Proverbs 16:15: "In the light of the king's countenance is life; and his favor of the latter rain."
Proverbs 16:22: "Understanding is a wellspring of life unto him that hath it: but the instruction is folly."
