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HebrewH1022Noun

בֵּית הַלַּחְמִי

bet hal.lach.mi

4Occurrences
H1022Strong's #
NounPart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

a Beth-lechemite, or native of Bethlechem

patrial from H1035 (בֵּית לֶחֶם) with the article inserted;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
Group of bet le.chem (*בֵּית לֶ֫חֶם *"Bethlehem" H1035) § Bethlehemite = "house of bread" an inhabitant of Bethlehem

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun

Morphology Code

N:N--LG

Full Description

N:N--LG

Occurrences

בֵּית הַלַּחְמִי appears 4 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

1 Samuel
3
2 Samuel
1

Key Passages

1 Samuel 16:1BSB

Now the LORD said to Samuel, “How long are you going to mourn for Saul, since I have rejected him as king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil and go. I am sending you to Jesse of Bethlehem, for I have selected from his sons a king for Myself.”

1 Samuel 16:18BSB

One of the servants answered, “I have seen a son of Jesse of Bethlehem who knows how to play the harp. He is a mighty man of valor, a warrior, eloquent and handsome, and the LORD is with him.”

1 Samuel 17:58BSB

“Whose son are you, young man?” asked Saul.“I am the son of your servant Jesse of Bethlehem,” David replied.

2 Samuel 21:19BSB

Once again there was a battle with the Philistines at Gob, and Elhanan son of Jair the Bethlehemite killed the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver’s beam.

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.