חַיָּה

chay.yah
living thing
Strong’s H2416cNoun, feminine106 times in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

the animals of22
animal of20
animals13
living creatures12
living creature10
life9
animal7
an animal6

In the text

Brown-Driver-Briggs

חַיָּה n.f. living thing, animal
1. animal
a. in general
b. wild animals, on account of their vital energy and activity
c. living beings, of the cherubic chariot
2. life, only in late poetry
3. appetite, activity of hunger
4. revival, renewal

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.