חֶלֶד cheled

Meaning

life (as a fleeting portion of time); hence, the world (as transient)

In the King James Version: age, short time, world.

Derivation: from an unused root apparently meaning to glide swiftly;

Where it is used

• Job 11:17 Your life will be brighter than noonday; its darkness will be like the morning.
• Psalms 17:14 from such men, O LORD, by Your hand—from men of the world whose portion is in this life. May You fill the bellies of Your treasured ones and satisfy their sons, so they leave their abundance to their children.
• Psalms 39:5 You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists as but a breath. Selah
• Psalms 49:1 For the choirmaster. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. Hear this, all you peoples; listen, all inhabitants of the world,
• Psalms 89:47 Remember the briefness of my lifespan! For what futility You have created all men!