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:
Proverbs 18:21: "Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love the fruit"
Proverbs 19:23: "The fear of the LORD tendeth to life: and he that hath it shall abide satisfied; be visited with evil."
Proverbs 21:21: "after righteousness and mercy findeth life, and honor."
Proverbs 22:4: "of the LORD are riches, and life."
Proverbs 27:27: "for thy food, for the food and for the maintenance for thy maidens."
Proverbs 31:12: "evil all of her life."
Ecclesiastes 2:3: "under the heaven all the days of their life."
Ecclesiastes 2:17: "Therefore I hated life; because the work under"
Ecclesiastes 3:12: "a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life."
Ecclesiastes 4:2: "which are already more than the living which are yet"
Ecclesiastes 4:2: "more than the living which are yet alive."
Ecclesiastes 4:15: "I considered all the living which walk the sun, with"
Ecclesiastes 5:18: "under the sun all the days of his life, which God giveth"
Ecclesiastes 5:20: "remember of his life; because God answereth him in the joy"
Ecclesiastes 6:8: "that knoweth to walk before the living?"
Ecclesiastes 6:12: "what is good in this life, all the days of his vain life"
Ecclesiastes 6:12: "all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who"
Ecclesiastes 7:2: "that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart."
Ecclesiastes 8:15: "for that shall abide with him of his labor the days of his life, which God giveth"
Ecclesiastes 9:3: "of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead."
Ecclesiastes 9:4: "is joined to the living there is hope: for a living"
Ecclesiastes 9:4: "there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead"
Ecclesiastes 9:5: "For the living know that they shall die: but the dead not"
Ecclesiastes 9:9: " Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest the days"
Ecclesiastes 9:9: "whom thou lovest the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given"
Ecclesiastes 9:9: "of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labor which thou"
Ecclesiastes 10:19: "is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: maketh merry: answereth"
Song of Solomon 4:15: "A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, from Lebanon."
Isaiah 4:3: "holy, even every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem:"
Isaiah 8:19: "unto their God? for the living to the dead?"
Isaiah 35:9: "there, nor beast shall go up thereon, it shall not be found there;"
Isaiah 37:4: "his master hath sent to reproach the living God, and will reprove the words which"
Isaiah 37:17: "which hath sent to reproach the living God."
Isaiah 38:11: "the LORD, even the LORD, of the living: I shall behold man no more"
Isaiah 38:12: "I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day"
Isaiah 38:16: "these things men live, and in all these things is the life of my spirit: so wilt thou recover me, and make me to live."
Isaiah 38:19: " The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: to the children shall make known"
Isaiah 38:19: "The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: to the children shall make known"
Isaiah 38:20: "to the stringed instruments all of our life in the house of the LORD."
Isaiah 40:16: "sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering."
Isaiah 43:20: " The beast of the field shall honor me, the dragons and the owls: I give"
Isaiah 46:1: "stoopeth, their idols upon the beasts, and upon the cattle: your carriages were heavy laden; they are a burden"
Isaiah 49:18: "and come to thee. As I live, saith the LORD, thou shalt surely clothe"
Isaiah 53:8: "shall declare for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression"
Isaiah 56:9: "All ye beasts of the field, come to devour, ye beasts in the forest."
Isaiah 56:9: "come to devour, ye beasts in the forest."
Isaiah 57:10: "thou not, thou hast found the life of thine hand; therefore thou wast not"
Jeremiah 2:13: "evils; me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken"
Jeremiah 4:2: "And thou shalt swear, The LORD liveth, in truth, in judgment, and the nations shall bless themselves"
Jeremiah 5:2: "And though they say, The LORD liveth; surely falsely."
