Strong's Concordance

Hebrew-Aramaic
H2416

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Original: חי

Transliteration: chay

Phonetic: khah'-ee

BDB Definition:

living, alive (adjective)
1. green (of vegetation)
2. flowing, fresh (of water)
3. lively, active (of man)
4. reviving (of the springtime)
relatives (noun masculine)
life (abstract emphatic) (noun masculine)
1. life
2. sustenance, maintenance
living thing, animal (noun feminine)
1. animal
2. life
3. appetite
4. revival, renewal
community (noun feminine)

Origin: from H2421

TWOT entry: 644a

Strong's Definition: From H2421; 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.

Occurrences in the (KJV) King James Version:

All Occurrences (497x)

A Place For Beasts (1x)

Alive (13x)

All The Beasts (1x)

All The Living (1x)

All Ye Beasts (2x)

Although They Were Yet Alive (1x)

Among All Manner Of Beasts (1x)

Among The Living (1x)

Among The Living Creatures (1x)

And Above Every Beast (1x)

And All The Beasts (1x)

And Beast (1x)

And Between The Beast (1x)

And Every Beast (1x)

And Every Living (1x)

And Every Living Thing (1x)

And For All Their Beasts (1x)

And For The Beast (1x)

And His Life (3x)

And In The Running (1x)

And Life (3x)

And My Life (1x)

And Of Any Living (1x)

And Of Beast (1x)

And Of Every Beast (1x)

And Of Every Living (1x)

And Of Every Living Thing (1x)

And Over Every Living Thing (1x)

And Running (1x)

And Shall Let The Living (1x)

And The Beast (2x)

And The Beasts (4x)

And The Living (4x)

And The Living Creatures (1x)

And The Troop (1x)

And Their Life (1x)

And Thy Life (1x)

And To Every Beast (3x)

And To The Wild Beasts (1x)

And When The Living Creatures (2x)

And With Every Living (1x)

And With The Living (1x)

And With The Running (1x)

Any Beast (1x)

Any More Every Thing Living (1x)

As For The Living (1x)

As Long As I Live (1x)

Beast (9x)

Beasts (7x)

Became A Living (1x)

Beer–Lahai–Roi (1x)

Before The Living (1x)

Behold, While I Am Yet Alive (1x)

Beside The Other In Her Life (1x)

Between Me And You And Every Living (2x)

Both Living (1x)

By Him That Liveth (1x)

By The Life (2x)

Did All The Beasts (1x)

Every Beast (2x)

Every Living (2x)

For A Living (1x)

For All Living (1x)

For Every Beast (1x)

For My Life (1x)

For The Living (4x)

For Them With The Beasts (1x)

Had Lived (1x)

Have I To Live (1x)

He Yet Alive (2x)

Her The Living (2x)

Here Alive (1x)

Him The Beasts (1x)

I Live (24x)

In His Life (2x)

In His Lifetime (1x)

In Life (1x)

In Running (1x)

In Their Lives (1x)

Into A Troop (1x)

Is Not Alive (1x)

Lest The Beasts (1x)

Life (21x)

Live (1x)

Lively (1x)

Liveth (61x)

Living (1x)

Living Creatures (1x)

Maketh Merry (1x)

May Live (2x)

Me Life (1x)

More Than The Living (1x)

My Life (9x)

Nay; But The Living (1x)

Neither Shall The Beast (1x)

Nor My Life (1x)

Nor The Beasts (2x)

Not The Congregation (1x)

Of All Living (2x)

100

Of Every Beast (1x)

101

Of Every Living Thing (2x)

102

Of Her Life (1x)

103

Of Her, All The Beasts (1x)

104

Of His Life (16x)

105

Of Life (32x)

106

Of Living (3x)

107

Of My Life (7x)

108

Of Our Life (1x)

109

Of Springing (1x)

110

Of The Beasts (2x)

111

Of The Life (7x)

112

Of The Live (1x)

113

Of The Living (23x)

114

Of The Living Creature (4x)

115

Of The Living Creatures (2x)

116

Of Thee, But Raw (1x)

117

Of Their Life (1x)

118

Of Thy Life (10x)

119

Old (1x)

120

Or If The Raw (1x)

121

Or Life (1x)

122

Over Running (2x)

123

Over The Running (1x)

124

Quick (3x)

125

Rather Than Life (1x)

126

Raw (2x)

127

Shall Be Upon Every Beast (1x)

128

Shall My Life (1x)

129

Shall No Man Living (1x)

130

So Shall They Be Life (1x)

131

So That His Life (1x)

132

So That No Beasts (1x)

133

Than Any Beast (1x)

134

Than Life (1x)

135

Than To Live (2x)

136

That He May Live (1x)

137

That Liveth (3x)

138

That My Life (1x)

139

That The Living (1x)

140

That They Live (1x)

141

That They Shall Live (1x)

142

That Thou Mayest Live (1x)

143

That Ye Live (1x)

144

The Appetite (1x)

145

The Beast (2x)

146

The Beasts (4x)

147

The Company (1x)

148

The Life (3x)

149

The Live (2x)

150

The Living (11x)

151

The Living Creature (2x)

152

The Living Creatures (2x)

153

The Maintenance (1x)

154

The Raw (2x)

155

Thee While I Live (1x)

156

Their Life (1x)

157

Their Lives (1x)

158

Them Alive (5x)

159

Them And The Living (1x)

160

Then The Beasts (1x)

161

Thou Livest (1x)

162

Though While He Lived (1x)

163

Thy Congregation (1x)

164

Thy Life (3x)

165

To All The Beasts (1x)

166

To All The Living (1x)

167

To Every Beast (3x)

168

To Him That Liveth (1x)

169

To Life (3x)

170

To The Beasts (2x)

171

To The Living (1x)

172

Unto The Beasts (1x)

173

Unto The Multitude (1x)

174

Was With Him Of Life (1x)

175

Was Yet Alive (2x)

176

Were Upon The Beasts (1x)

177

Where All The Beasts (1x)

178

Wherefore Doth A Living (1x)

179

Wherein All The Beasts (1x)

180

While He Yet Lived (3x)

181

While I Live (1x)

182

While They Live (1x)

183

Whose The Living (1x)

184

With The Beasts (1x)

185

With Thee Every Living Thing (1x)

186

Ye Live (1x)

187

Yet Alive (5x)

188

Yet Live (1x)

189

You Life (1x)

190

Your Life (1x)

All Occurrences

1 Samuel 14:45

And the people said unto Saul, Shall Jonathan die, who hath wrought this great salvation in Israel? God forbid: as the Lord liveth, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground; for he hath wrought with God this day. So the people rescued Jonathan, that he died not.

1 Samuel 15:8

And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.

1 Samuel 17:26

And David spake to the men that stood by him, saying, What shall be done to the man that killeth this Philistine, and taketh away the reproach from Israel? for who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?

1 Samuel 17:36

Thy servant slew both the lion and the bear: and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, seeing he hath defied the armies of the living God.

1 Samuel 17:46

This day will the Lord deliver thee into mine hand; and I will smite thee, and take thine head from thee; and I will give the carcases of the host of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel.(r)

1 Samuel 17:55

And when Saul saw David go forth against the Philistine, he said unto Abner, the captain of the host, Abner, whose son is this youth? And Abner said, As thy soul liveth, O king, I cannot tell.

1 Samuel 18:18

And David said unto Saul, Who am I? and what is my life, or my father’s family in Israel, that I should be son in law to the king?

1 Samuel 19:6

And Saul hearkened unto the voice of Jonathan: and Saul sware, As the Lord liveth, he shall not be slain.

1 Samuel 20:3

And David sware moreover, and said, Thy father certainly knoweth that I have found grace in thine eyes; and he saith, Let not Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved: but truly as the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, there is but a step between me and death.

1 Samuel 20:14

And thou shalt not only while yet I live shew me the kindness of the Lord , that I die not:

1 Samuel 20:21

And, behold, I will send a lad, saying, Go, find out the arrows. If I expressly say unto the lad, Behold, the arrows are on this side of thee, take them; then come thou: for there is peace to thee, and no hurt; as the Lord liveth.(n)

1 Samuel 25:6

And thus shall ye say to him that liveth in prosperity, Peace be both to thee, and peace be to thine house, and peace be unto all that thou hast.

1 Samuel 25:26

Now therefore, my lord, as the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, seeing the Lord hath withholden thee from coming to shed blood, and from avenging thyself with thine own hand, now let thine enemies, and they that seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal.(l)

1 Samuel 25:29

Yet a man is risen to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul: but the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the Lord thy God; and the souls of thine enemies, them shall he sling out, as out of the middle of a sling.(o)

1 Samuel 25:34

For in very deed, as the Lord God of Israel liveth, which hath kept me back from hurting thee, except thou hadst hasted and come to meet me, surely there had not been left unto Nabal by the morning light any that pisseth against the wall.

1 Samuel 26:10

David said furthermore, As the Lord liveth, the Lord shall smite him; or his day shall come to die; or he shall descend into battle, and perish.

1 Samuel 26:16

This thing is not good that thou hast done. As the Lord liveth, ye are worthy to die, because ye have not kept your master, the Lord’s anointed. And now see where the king’s spear is, and the cruse of water that was at his bolster.(c)

1 Samuel 28:10

And Saul sware to her by the Lord , saying, As the Lord liveth, there shall no punishment happen to thee for this thing.

1 Samuel 29:6

Then Achish called David, and said unto him, Surely, as the Lord liveth, thou hast been upright, and thy going out and thy coming in with me in the host is good in my sight: for I have not found evil in thee since the day of thy coming unto me unto this day: nevertheless the lords favour thee not.(a)

2 Samuel 1:23

Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided: they were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions.(e)

2 Samuel 2:27

And Joab said, As God liveth, unless thou hadst spoken, surely then in the morning the people had gone up every one from following his brother.(k)

(l)

2 Samuel 4:9

And David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said unto them, As the Lord liveth, who hath redeemed my soul out of all adversity,

2 Samuel 11:11

And Uriah said unto David, The ark, and Israel, and Judah, abide in tents; and my lord Joab, and the servants of my lord, are encamped in the open fields; shall I then go into mine house, to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife? as thou livest, and as thy soul liveth, I will not do this thing.

2 Samuel 12:5

And David’s anger was greatly kindled against the man; and he said to Nathan, As the Lord liveth, the man that hath done this thing shall surely die:(b)

2 Samuel 12:18

And it came to pass on the seventh day, that the child died. And the servants of David feared to tell him that the child was dead: for they said, Behold, while the child was yet alive, we spake unto him, and he would not hearken unto our voice: how will he then vex himself, if we tell him that the child is dead?(d)

2 Samuel 12:21

Then said his servants unto him, What thing is this that thou hast done? thou didst fast and weep for the child, while it was alive; but when the child was dead, thou didst rise and eat bread.

2 Samuel 12:22

And he said, While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept: for I said, Who can tell whether God will be gracious to me, that the child may live?

2 Samuel 14:11

Then said she, I pray thee, let the king remember the Lord thy God, that thou wouldest not suffer the revengers of blood to destroy any more, lest they destroy my son. And he said, As the Lord liveth, there shall not one hair of thy son fall to the earth.(d)

2 Samuel 14:19

And the king said, Is not the hand of Joab with thee in all this? And the woman answered and said, As thy soul liveth, my lord the king, none can turn to the right hand or to the left from ought that my lord the king hath spoken: for thy servant Joab, he bade me, and he put all these words in the mouth of thine handmaid:

2 Samuel 15:21

And Ittai answered the king, and said, As the Lord liveth, and as my lord the king liveth, surely in what place my lord the king shall be, whether in death or life, even there also will thy servant be.

2 Samuel 18:14

Then said Joab, I may not tarry thus with thee. And he took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom, while he was yet alive in the midst of the oak.(g)

(h)

2 Samuel 18:18

Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself a pillar, which is in the king’s dale: for he said, I have no son to keep my name in remembrance: and he called the pillar after his own name: and it is called unto this day, Absalom’s place.

2 Samuel 19:6

In that thou lovest thine enemies, and hatest thy friends. For thou hast declared this day, that thou regardest neither princes nor servants: for this day I perceive, that if Absalom had lived, and all we had died this day, then it had pleased thee well.(b)

(c)

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Brown-Driver-Brigg's Information

All of the original Hebrew and Aramaic words are arranged by the numbering system from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible. In some cases more than one form of the word — such as the masculine and feminine forms of a noun — may be listed.

Each entry is a Hebrew word, unless it is designated as Aramaic. Immediately after each word is given its equivalent in English letters, according to a system of transliteration. Then follows the phonetic. Next follows the Brown-Driver-Briggs' Definitions given in English.

Then ensues a reference to the same word as found in Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament (TWOT), by R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, Jr., and Bruce K. Waltke. This section makes an association between the unique number used by TWOT with the Strong's number.

Thayers Information

All of the original Greek words are arranged by the numbering system from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible. The Strong's numbering system arranges most Greek words by their alphabetical order. This renders reference easy without recourse to the Greek characters. In some cases more than one form of the word - such as the masculine, feminine, and neuter forms of a noun - may be listed.

Immediately after each word is given its exact equivalent in English letters, according to the system of transliteration laid down in the scheme here following. Then follows the phonetic. Next follows the Thayer's Definitions given in English.

Then ensues a reference to the same word as found in the ten-volume Theological Dictionary of the New Testament (TDNT), edited by Gerhard Kittel. Both volume and page numbers cite where the word may be found.

The presence of an asterisk indicates that the corresponding entry in the Theological Dictionary of the New Testament may appear in a different form than that displayed in Thayers' Greek Definitions.

Strong's Hebrew and Greek Dictionaries Information

Dictionaries of Hebrew and Greek Words taken from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance by James Strong, S.T.D., LL.D., 1890.

Strong's Concor­dance

Hebrew-Aramaic H2416

Brown-Driver-Brigg's Information

Thayers Information

Strong's Hebrew and Greek Dictionaries Information

Strong's Concordance

Hebrew-Aramaic
H2416