חַיּוּתchayûwth
literally 'widowhood of livingness' (2 Samuel 20:3)
Pronunciation: khah-yooth' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H2424
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 1 times in the Bible.
- 2 Samuel 20:3 When David came to his palace in Jerusalem, he took the ten concubines he had left to look after the palace and placed them in seclusion. Their needs were provided for, but he no longer slept with them. So each of them lived like a widow until she died.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).