לְחִי
le.chi
“Lehi”
Definition
the cheek (from its fleshiness); hence, the jaw-bone
from an unused root meaning to be soft;
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word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Masculine)
H:N-M
H:N-M
Occurrences
לְחִי appears 17 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
Then Zedekiah son of Chenaanah went up, struck Micaiah in the face, and demanded, “Which way did the Spirit of the LORD go when He departed from me to speak with you?”
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His breath is like a rushing torrentthat rises to the neck.He comes to sift the nations in a sieve of destruction;He bridles the jaws of the peoples to lead them astray.
Then Samson said:“With the jawbone of a donkeyI have piled them into heaps.With the jawbone of a donkeyI have slain a thousand men.”
They open their mouths against meand strike my cheeks with contempt;they join together against me.
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