(April 24, 2012 at 9:42 pm)Drich Wrote: All definitions are provided by: Strong's blue letter bible, lexicon and concordance. If you believe you have a leg up on this reference material then please feel free to contact the editor responsible...IWhat version are you using? I've always got the impression that Strongs is a bit dated unless you're using modern updated versions.
Sources:
Zondervan NASB Exhaustive Concordance 1981
"The Vocabulary Guide to Biblical Hebrew" by Van Pelt and Pratico
Lightcatcher Interlinear Genesis
I can't show the pointing but the 5 most common foms of 'chayah' are as follows:
Het-Yod-He = to live (Q); to live intensely (Pi), caused to live (Hi)
Het-Yod = living (adj) living
Het-Yod-Yod-Mem = lifetime
Het-Yod-He (fs constr) = animal, beast
Het-Yod-Hee (3ms suff) = life