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:
Jeremiah 8:3: "And death shall be chosen rather than life rather than life by all the residue of"
Jeremiah 10:10: "is the true God, he is the living and an everlasting king: at his wrath"
Jeremiah 11:19: "with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more"
Jeremiah 12:9: "her; come ye, assemble all the beasts of the field, come to devour."
Jeremiah 12:16: "to swear by my name, The LORD liveth; as they taught"
Jeremiah 16:14: "more be said, The LORD liveth, that brought up the children"
Jeremiah 16:15: "But, The LORD liveth, that brought up the children"
Jeremiah 17:13: "the LORD, the fountain of living waters."
Jeremiah 21:8: "before you the way of life, and the way of death."
Jeremiah 22:24: "As I live, saith the LORD, though the son"
Jeremiah 23:7: "more say, The LORD liveth, which brought up the children"
Jeremiah 23:8: "But, The LORD liveth, which brought up led"
Jeremiah 23:36: "for ye have perverted the words of the living God, of the LORD of hosts our God."
Jeremiah 27:6: "of Babylon, my servant; and the beasts of the field have I given him also to serve"
Jeremiah 28:14: "and they shall serve him: and I have given him the beasts of the field also."
Jeremiah 38:16: "saying, As the LORD liveth, that made us"
Jeremiah 44:26: "saying, The Lord GOD liveth."
Jeremiah 46:18: "As I live, saith the King, whose name of hosts, Surely"
Jeremiah 52:33: "before him all the days of his life."
Jeremiah 52:34: "until the day of his death, all the days of his life."
Lamentations 3:39: "Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man the punishment of his sins?"
Lamentations 3:53: "They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone"
Lamentations 3:58: "the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life."
Ezekiel 1:5: "Also out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four living creatures. And this they"
Ezekiel 1:13: "As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals and like the appearance of lamps:"
Ezekiel 1:13: "it went up and down among the living creatures; and the fire was bright, and out of the fire"
Ezekiel 1:14: " And the living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning."
Ezekiel 1:15: "Now as I beheld the living creatures, behold one wheel by the living creatures,"
Ezekiel 1:15: "wheel by the living creatures, with his four faces."
Ezekiel 1:19: " And when the living creatures went, the wheels went by were lifted up from"
Ezekiel 1:19: "the wheels went by them: and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth,"
Ezekiel 1:20: "and the wheels were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels."
Ezekiel 1:21: "were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels."
Ezekiel 1:22: "of the firmament upon the heads of the living creature of the terrible crystal, stretched forth"
Ezekiel 3:13: "I heard also the noise of the wings of the living creatures that touched one and the noise of the wheels"
Ezekiel 5:11: "Wherefore, as I live, saith the Lord Surely,"
Ezekiel 5:17: "upon you famine and evil beasts, thee; and pestilence and blood shall pass"
Ezekiel 7:13: "to although they were yet alive: for the vision is touching"
Ezekiel 7:13: "to although they were yet alive: alive: for the vision is touching"
Ezekiel 7:13: "neither shall any strengthen himself in the iniquity of his life."
Ezekiel 10:15: "And the cherubims were lifted up. This is the living creature that by the river of Chebar."
Ezekiel 10:17: "these lifted up themselves also: for of the living creature"
Ezekiel 10:20: "This is the living creature that I saw under of Israel by the river"
Ezekiel 14:15: "If I cause noisome beasts to pass through the land, it, so that it be desolate,"
Ezekiel 14:15: "that no man may pass through because of the beasts:"
Ezekiel 14:16: "men were in it, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, they"
Ezekiel 14:18: "men were in it, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, they shall deliver"
Ezekiel 14:20: "and Job, were in it, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, they"
Ezekiel 14:21: "the sword, and the famine, and the noisome beast, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man"
Ezekiel 16:48: "As I live, saith the Lord GOD, thy sister hath not"
