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HebrewH3899Noun (Masculine)

לֶ֫חֶם

le.chem

261Occurrences
H3899Strong's #
Noun (Masculine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

food (for man or beast), especially bread, or grain (for making it)

from H3898 (לָחַם); See also H1036 (בֵּית לְעַפְרָה)

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
food(eating) 1) bread, food, grain 1a) bread 1a1) bread 1a2) bread-corn 1b) food (in general)

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun (Masculine)

Morphology Code

H:N-M

Full Description

H:N-M

Occurrences

לֶ֫חֶם appears 261 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Genesis
22
Leviticus
22
Proverbs
22
1 Kings
20
Exodus
20
1 Samuel
19
Ezk
19
Isaiah
16

Key Passages

1 Chronicles 16:3BSB

Then he distributed to every man and woman of Israel a loaf of bread, a date cake, and a raisin cake.

2 Samuel 12:20BSB

Then David got up from the ground, washed and anointed himself, changed his clothes, and went into the house of the LORD and worshiped. Then he went to his own house, and at his request they set food before him, and he ate.

Ezk 24:17BSB

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Judges 13:16BSB

And the angel of the LORD replied, “Even if I stay, I will not eat your food. But if you prepare a burnt offering, offer it to the LORD.” For Manoah did not know that it was the angel of the LORD.

Leviticus 8:26BSB

And from the basket of unleavened bread that was before the LORD, he took one cake of unleavened bread, one cake of bread made with oil, and one wafer, and he placed them on the fat portions and on the right thigh.

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