cheva · animal, beast

What it means

cheva (חֵיוָא) is an Aramaic word of the Bible that means “animal, beast”.

(Aramaic): a living creature, wild or tame.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A creature; in Daniel, the creatures of the visions.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• animals ×9
• beast ×6
• beasts ×4
• animal ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Daniel 2:38

  and wherever the sons of man live, the animals of the field and the birds of the heavens, he has given them into your hand and made you rule over all of them; you are the head of gold.

• Daniel 4:12

  Its foliage was beautiful and its fruit abundant, and there was food for all in it; under it the animals of the field found shade, and in its branches the birds of the heavens lived, and from it all flesh was fed.

• Daniel 4:14

  He called out with strength and said this: ‘Cut down the tree and cut off its branches; strip off its foliage and scatter its fruit. Let the animals flee from under it, and the birds from its branches.

• Daniel 4:15

  But leave the stump of its roots in the earth, and with a band of iron and bronze, in the grass of the field; and with the dew of the heavens let him be drenched, and with the animals be his portion in the grass of the earth.

• Daniel 4:16

  Let his heart be changed from that of man, and let the heart of an animal be given to him; and let seven times pass over him.

• Daniel 4:21

  and whose foliage was beautiful and its fruit abundant, and in which there was food for all in it, under which the animals of the field lived, and in whose branches the birds of the heavens dwelt:

• Daniel 4:23

  And as for what the king saw, a watcher and a holy one coming down from the heavens and saying, ‘Cut down the tree and destroy it, but leave the stump of its roots in the earth, and with a band of iron and bronze, in the grass of the field; and with the dew of the heavens let him be drenched, and with the animals of the field be his portion, until seven times pass over him’:

• Daniel 4:25

  that you will be driven away from men, and with the animals of the field your dwelling will be, and grass like oxen you will be made to eat, and with the dew of the heavens you will be drenched, and seven times will pass over you, until you know that Illaya rules over the kingdom of men, and to whomever he wishes he gives it.

• Daniel 4:32

  and from men you are being driven away, and with the animals of the field will be your dwelling; grass like oxen you will be made to eat, and seven times will pass over you, until you know that Illaya rules over the kingdom of men, and to whomever he wishes he gives it.”

• Daniel 5:21

  And from the sons of men he was driven away, and his heart was made like that of the animals, and with the wild donkeys was his dwelling; grass like oxen he was made to eat, and with the dew of the heavens his body was drenched, until he knew that Elah Illaya rules over the kingdom of men, and whomever he wishes he sets up over it.

• Daniel 7:3

  And four great beasts were coming up from the sea, different one from the other.

• Daniel 7:5

  And look, another beast, a second, like a bear, and it was raised up on one side, and three ribs were in its mouth between its teeth; and they were saying this to it: ‘Arise, devour much flesh.’

• Daniel 7:6

  After this I was looking, and look, another, like a leopard, and it had four wings of a bird on its back; and the beast had four heads, and dominion was given to it.

• Daniel 7:7

  After this I was looking in the visions of the night, and look, a fourth beast, terrifying and dreadful and exceedingly strong; and it had great teeth of iron; it devoured and crushed, and the rest it trampled with its feet; and it was different from all the beasts that were before it, and it had ten horns.

• Daniel 7:11

  I was looking then because of the sound of the great words that the horn was speaking; I was looking until the beast was killed, and its body destroyed and given to the burning of fire.

• Daniel 7:12

  And as for the rest of the beasts, their dominion was taken away, but a lengthening of life was given them for a season and a time.

• Daniel 7:17

  ‘These great beasts, which are four, are four kings who will arise from the earth.

• Daniel 7:19

  Then I wished to know the truth about the fourth beast, which was different from all of them, exceedingly terrifying, whose teeth were of iron and its claws of bronze, which devoured, crushed, and trampled the rest with its feet;

• Daniel 7:23

  Thus he said: ‘The fourth beast will be a fourth kingdom on the earth, which will be different from all the kingdoms, and it will devour all the earth and trample it and crush it.

And 1 more times.