Living
חַיּוּתStrong’s H2424chayyut (chay-yut)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Chayyut is the Hebrew word usually translated “living”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in ward, and fed them, but went not in unto them. So they were shut up unto the day of their death, living in widowhood.”
Meaning
- Living
How it's translated
- living 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Samuel 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
חַיּוּת chayyut · living
living
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “living” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
LIV'ING, participle present
tense [from live.]
- Dwelling; residing; existing; subsisting; having life or the vital functions in operation; not dead.
- adjective Issuing continually from the earth; running; flowing; as a living spring or fountain; opposed to stagnant.
- adjective Producing action, animation and vigor; quickening; as a living principle; a living faith.
All definitions and other forms of “living”
LIV'ING, noun
He or those who are alive; usually with a plural signification; as in the land of the living
- “The living will lay it to his heart” Ecclesiastes 7:2
LIV'ING, noun
- Means of subsistence; estate.“He divided to them his living” Luke 15:12“She of her want, did cast in all that she had, even all her living” Mark 12:44
- Power of continuing life.
- Livelihood.
- The benefice of a clergyman.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.