חַיּוּת

chay.yut

living

Strong’s H2424Noun, feminine1 time in the Hebrew Bible

living1

In the text

2 Samuel 20:3חַיּוּת ס
When David returned to his palace in Jerusalem, he took the ten concubines he had left to take care of the palace, and he placed them in a house under guard. He provided for them, but he no longer slept with them. They were confined until the day of their death, living as widows.

חַיּוּת n.f.abstr. 2 S 20:3, lit. ‘widowhood of livingness’; living widows

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.