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Strong's #3901 - לָחֶם

Transliteration
lâchem
Phonetics
law-khem'
Origin
from (H3898)
Parts of Speech
Noun Masculine
TWOT
1104a
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Definition   
Brown-Driver-Briggs'

1) war

1a) meaning uncertain

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Ancient Hebrew Lexicon Definitions

2305) mhl (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) mhl (לההמ LHhM) - I. Eat: II. Fight:KJV (177): (vf: Paal, Niphal) fight, war, eat, overcome, devour, prevail - Strongs: H3898 (לָחַם)

Nm) mhl (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)

dm ) mfhl (לההומ LHhWM) - Meat: KJV (2): eating, flesh - Strongs: H3894 (לָחֻם)

hf1) emhlm (מלההמה MLHhMH) - |kjv: battle, war, fight - Strongs: H4421 (מִלְחָמָה)

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Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
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 KauAT; compare GFM on the passage


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לָחֶ֣ם לחם lā·ḥem laChem lāḥem
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