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Monday, December 23rd, 2024
the Fourth Week of Advent

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Bible Lexicons

Old Testament Hebrew Lexical DictionaryHebrew Lexicon

Strong's #3901 - לָחֶם

Transliteration

lâchem

Phonetics

law-khem'

Origin

from (H3898)

Parts of Speech

masculine noun

TWOT

1104a

Definition

Brown-Driver-Briggs
Strong

Brown-Driver-Briggs' Definition

war
1. meaning uncertain

Frequency Lists

Book
Word

Verse Results

ASV (1)

Judges 1

BSB (1)

Judges 1

CSB (1)

Judges 1

ESV (1)

Judges 1

KJV (1)

Judges 1

LEB (1)

Judges 1

LSB (1)

Judges 1

N95 (1)

Judges 1

NAS (1)

Judges 1

NLT (0)

The World English Bible
did not use
this Strong's Number

WEB (1)

Judges 1

Ancient Hebrew Lexicon Definitions

2305) m h l (לההמ LHhM) AC: Fight CO: Bread AB: ?: Flour an water are mixed together and kneaded. Also war in the sense of fighting with the bread when kneading. [from: mh- food]

V) m h l (לההמ LHhM) - I. Eat: II. Fight:KJV (177): (vf: Paal, Niphal) fight, war, eat, overcome, devour, prevail - Strongs: H3898 (לָחַם)

N^m) m h l (לההמ LHhM) - I. Bread:[Hebrew and Aramaic] II. |kjv: bread, food, meat, loaves, shewbread, victuals, feast, fruit, provision - Strongs: H3899 (לֶחֶם), H3900 (לְחֵם), H3901 (לָחֶם)

d^m ) m f h l (לההומ LHhWM) - Meat: KJV (2): eating, flesh - Strongs: H3894 (לָחֻם)

h^f1) e m h l m (מלההמה MLHhMH) - |kjv: battle, war, fight - Strongs: H4421 (מִלְחָמָה)

Brown-Driver-Briggs Expanded Definition

לָחֶם noun [masculine] only in אָז לָחֶ֣ם שְׁעָרִים Judges 5:8 (so Masora; Manuscripts לָחֵ֣ם, לָחֶ֣ם), usually translated then was there war of ( = at) the gates, but improbable; text and meaning dubious; A ᵐ5^L read is ὡς ἄρτον κρίθινον, whence Bu^{RS 103} אָז לֶחֶם שְׂעֹרִים then they used to eat barley bread; but Bu^{Comm. {abbrev}}שׂ׳אָזַל ל the barley bread was exhausted; Mayer Lambert^{RŠJ xxx, 115} אז לחמשׁ ערים then for (in) 5 cities no shield was seen, etc.; other conjectures in Kau^AT; compare GFM^{on the passage}

List of Word Forms

לָחֶ֣ם לחם lā·ḥem laChem lāḥem