HebrewH3923Noun

לָכִישׁ

la.khish

22Occurrences
H3923Strong's #
NounPart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Lakish, a place in Palestine

from an unused root of uncertain meaning;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
§ Lachish = "invincible" a city lying south of Jerusalem on the borders of Simeon and which belonged to the Amorites until conquered by Joshua and allotted to Judah

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun

Morphology Code

N:N--L

Full Description

N:N--L

Occurrences

לָכִישׁ appears 22 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Joshua
10
2 Kings
4
2 Chronicles
3
Isaiah
2
Jeremiah
1
Micah
1
Nehemiah
1

Key Passages

2 Chronicles 11:9BSB

Adoraim, Lachish, Azekah,

2 Kings 18:14BSB

So Hezekiah king of Judah sent word to the king of Assyria at Lachish, saying, “I have done wrong; withdraw from me, and I will pay whatever you demand from me.”And the king of Assyria exacted from Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.

Isaiah 37:8BSB

When the Rabshakeh heard that the king of Assyria had left Lachish, he withdrew and found the king fighting against Libnah.

Joshua 10:23BSB

So they brought the five kings out of the cave—the kings of Jerusalem, Hebron, Jarmuth, Lachish, and Eglon.

Joshua 10:34BSB

So Joshua moved on from Lachish to Eglon, and all Israel with him. They laid siege to it and fought against it.

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