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Hebrew noun (Aramaic, feminine) · H2423

חֵיוָא

chevakhay-vaw'

beast

20 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: chêyvâʼ

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2423is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

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    Old Testament books
  • 15
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H2423

an animal

The King James renders it: beast.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

cheva is rendered "beast". It stands 20 times in the Hebrew text, across one book.

  • Twenty of the uses stand in Daniel, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Daniel 2:38Wherever the sons of men or beasts of the field or birds of the air dwell, He has given them into your hand and has made you ruler over them all. You are that head of gold.
  • The Greek text spells it fifteen different ways.

The first use

Wherever the sons of men or beasts of the field or birds of the air dwell, He has given them into your hand and has made you ruler over them all. You are that head of gold.

Daniel 2:38חֵיוַ֨ת

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Twenty of the word's twenty uses are in Daniel.

The other 38 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • animal of6
  • animal the3
  • beast the3
  • beasts the3
  • a beast2
  • an animal1
  • beasts1
  • to beast the1

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

All 20, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

15 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • חֵֽיוְתָא֙4
  • חֵיוַ֣ת3
  • חֵיוָ֖ה1
  • חֵיוָה֩1
  • חֵיוָ֣ה1
  • חֵיוָן֙1
  • חֵיוַ֨ת1
  • חֵיוַ֤ת1
  • חֵיוַ֧ת1
  • חֵיוְתָ֥א1
  • חֵיוְתָ֣א1
  • חֵֽיוָתָא֙1

and 3 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)6ANcfsc
  • noun · feminine singular · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)6ANcfsd/Ta
  • noun · feminine plural · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)3ANcfpd/Ta
  • noun · feminine singular3ANcfsa
  • noun · feminine plural1ANcfpa
  • preposition + noun · feminine singular · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)1AR/Ncfsd/Ta

Daniel

twenty uses
  • Wherever the sons of men or beasts of the field or birds of the air dwell, He has given them into your hand and has made you ruler over them all. You are that head of gold.

    Daniel 2:38

    • חֵיוַ֨תcheivatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: animal of
  • Its leaves were beautiful, its fruit was abundant, and upon it was food for all. Under it the beasts of the field found shelter, in its branches the birds of the air nested, and from it every creature was fed.

    Daniel 4:12

    • חֵיוַ֣תcheivatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: animal of
  • He called out in a loud voice: ‘Cut down the tree and chop off its branches; strip off its leaves and scatter its fruit. Let the beasts flee from under it, and the birds from its branches.

    Daniel 4:14

    • חֵֽיוְתָא֙cheiveta'noun · feminine singular · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: animal the
  • But leave the stump with its roots in the ground, and a band of iron and bronze around it, in the tender grass of the field. Let him be drenched with the dew of heaven and graze with the beasts on the grass of the earth.

    Daniel 4:15

    • חֵיוְתָ֥אcheivta'noun · feminine singular · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: animal the
  • Let his mind be changed from that of a man, and let him be given the mind of a beast till seven times pass him by.

    Daniel 4:16

    • חֵיוָ֖הcheivahnoun · feminine singulartagged: an animal
  • whose foliage was beautiful and whose fruit was abundant, providing food for all, under which the beasts of the field lived, and in whose branches the birds of the air nested—

    Daniel 4:21

    • חֵיוַ֣תcheivatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: animal of
  • And you, O king, saw a watcher, a holy one, coming down from heaven and saying: ‘Cut down the tree and destroy it, but leave the stump with its roots in the ground, and a band of iron and bronze around it, in the tender grass of the field. Let him be drenched with the dew of heaven, and graze with the beasts of the field till seven times pass him by.’

    Daniel 4:23

    • חֵיוַ֤תcheivatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: animal of
  • You will be driven away from mankind, and your dwelling will be with the beasts of the field. You will feed on grass like an ox and be drenched with the dew of heaven, and seven times shall pass you by, until you acknowledge that the Most High rules over the kingdom of mankind and gives it to whom He wishes.

    Daniel 4:25

    • חֵיוַ֣תcheivatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: animal of
  • You will be driven away from mankind to live with the beasts of the field, and you will feed on grass like an ox. And seven times will pass you by, until you acknowledge that the Most High rules over the kingdom of mankind and gives it to whom He wishes.”

    Daniel 4:32

    • חֵיוַ֧תcheivatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: animal of
  • He was driven away from mankind, and his mind was like that of a beast. He lived with the wild donkeys and ate grass like an ox, and his body was drenched with the dew of heaven until he acknowledged that the Most High God rules over the kingdom of mankind, setting over it whom He wishes.

    Daniel 5:21

    • חֵיוְתָ֣אcheivta'noun · feminine singular · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: animal the
  • Then four great beasts came up out of the sea, each one different from the others:

    Daniel 7:3

    • חֵיוָן֙cheivannoun · feminine pluraltagged: beasts
  • Suddenly another beast appeared, which looked like a bear. It was raised up on one of its sides, and it had three ribs in its mouth between its teeth. So it was told, ‘Get up and gorge yourself on flesh!’

    Daniel 7:5

    • חֵיוָה֩cheivahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a beast
  • Next, as I watched, another beast appeared. It was like a leopard, and on its back it had four wings like those of a bird. The beast also had four heads, and it was given authority to rule.

    Daniel 7:6

    • לְחֵ֣יוְתָ֔אlecheiveta'preposition + noun · feminine singular · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: to beast the
  • After this, as I watched in my vision in the night, suddenly a fourth beast appeared, and it was terrifying—dreadful and extremely strong—with large iron teeth. It devoured and crushed; then it trampled underfoot whatever was left. It was different from all the beasts before it, and it had ten horns.

    Daniel 7:7

    • חֵיוָ֣הcheivahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a beast
    • חֵֽיוָתָא֙cheivata'noun · feminine plural · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: beasts the
  • Then I kept watching because of the arrogant words the horn was speaking. As I continued to watch, the beast was slain, and its body was destroyed and thrown into the blazing fire.

    Daniel 7:11

    • חֵֽיוְתָא֙cheiveta'noun · feminine singular · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: beast the
  • As for the rest of the beasts, their dominion was removed, but they were granted an extension of life for a season and a time.

    Daniel 7:12

    • חֵֽיוָתָ֔אcheivata'noun · feminine plural · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: beasts the
  • ‘These four great beasts are four kings who will arise from the earth.

    Daniel 7:17

    • חֵיוָתָ֣אcheivata'noun · feminine plural · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: beasts the
  • Then I wanted to know the true meaning of the fourth beast, which was different from all the others—extremely terrifying—devouring and crushing with iron teeth and bronze claws, then trampling underfoot whatever was left.

    Daniel 7:19

    • חֵֽיוְתָא֙cheiveta'noun · feminine singular · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: beast the
  • This is what he said: ‘The fourth beast is a fourth kingdom that will appear on the earth, different from all the other kingdoms, and it will devour the whole earth, trample it down, and crush it.

    Daniel 7:23

    • חֵֽיוְתָא֙cheiveta'noun · feminine singular · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: beast the

The letters

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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