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Lexicon :: Strong's H3899 - leḥem

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לֶחֶם
Transliteration
leḥem
Pronunciation
lekh'-em
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 1105a

Strong’s Definitions

לֶחֶם lechem, lekh'-em; from H3898; See also H1036 food (for man or beast), especially bread, or grain (for making it):—(shew-) bread, × eat, food, fruit, loaf, meat, victuals.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 297x

The KJV translates Strong's H3899 in the following manner: bread (237x), food (21x), meat (18x), shewbread (with H6440) (5x), loaves (5x), shewbread (with H4635) (3x), shewbread (2x), victuals (2x), eat (1x), feast (1x), fruit (1x), provision (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 297x
The KJV translates Strong's H3899 in the following manner: bread (237x), food (21x), meat (18x), shewbread (with H6440) (5x), loaves (5x), shewbread (with H4635) (3x), shewbread (2x), victuals (2x), eat (1x), feast (1x), fruit (1x), provision (1x).
  1. bread, food, grain

    1. bread

      1. bread

      2. bread-corn

    2. food (in general)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
לֶחֶם lechem, lekh'-em; from H3898; See also H1036 food (for man or beast), especially bread, or grain (for making it):—(shew-) bread, × eat, food, fruit, loaf, meat, victuals.
STRONGS H3899: Abbreviations
לֶ֫חֶם 296 noun masculine1 Samuel 9:7 and (rarely) feminineGenesis 49:20 (see below, and Dr1 Samuel 10:4) bread, food (Phoenician לחם bread; Late Hebrew לֶחֶם; Aramaic לַחְמָא, bdb053604, as Hebrew; Arabic bdb053605 flesh, meat, (compare Frä30)); — absolute ל׳ Genesis 3:19 +; לָ֑חֶם Genesis 31:54 +; לֶ֑חֶם Psalm 14:4 + 2 times; construct לֶחֶם Hosea 9:4 +; suffix לַחְמִי Job 3:24 +, לַחְמְךָ Obadiah 7 +, לַחְמָם Hosea 9:4b, + Hosea 9:4a (for MT לָהֶם), We GASm Now, + etc.; —
1.
a. bread, the ordinary food of early Hebrews (BenzArchaeology 84 ff NowArchaeology i. 109 ff.) Exodus 21:14 (E), Numbers 21:5; Joshua 9:5, 12 (JE), Deuteronomy 8:3; Deuteronomy 23:5; Exodus 16:3 (P) +; כִּכַּרלֿ׳ loaf of bread 1 Samuel 2:36 + (see כִּכָּר below כרר), and without ככר (always with number)† 1 Samuel 10:4; 1 Samuel 16:20 (see Dr), 1 Samuel 17:7; 1 Samuel 21:4; 1 Samuel 25:18; 2 Samuel 16:1; 1 Kings 14:3; 2 Kings 4:42 †; חַלַת ל׳ cake of bread 2 Samuel 6:19; Exodus 29:23 + (see חַלָּה below I. חלל); made from barley (שְׂעֹרִים); Judges 7:13; 2 Kings 4:42 (see also לָחֶם above); from wheat-flour (סֹלֶת חִטִים) Exodus 29:2 (P); compare the mixture Ezekiel 4:9; made by baking (אפה) Isaiah 44:15, 19; Leviticus 26:26 (H; compare Jeremiah 37:21); † פַּת־ל׳ a bit of bread 1 Samuel 2:36; 1 Kings 17:11; Proverbs 28:21, compare Ezekiel 13:19, as modest term for a hospitable meal Genesis 18:5 (J), Judges 19:5; 1 Samuel 28:22 †; distinguished from meat (flesh), Genesis 27:17 (J) 1 Samuel 25:11; 1 Kings 17:6 (twice in verse); Exodus 16:8, 12 (also Exodus 16:3 above), Exodus 29:32, 34; Leviticus 8:31 (all P), Leviticus 23:18 (H), 1 Chronicles 12:40; Psalm 78:20; Daniel 10:3; = a meal 1 Samuel 20:27, אָכַל ל׳ = take a meal Genesis 31:54 (twice in verse); Genesis 37:25; Genesis 43:25, 32 +; אכל לַחְמִי Psalm 41:10 eat my bread, establishing an obligation, compare Obadiah 7 (read אֹכְלֵי ל׳ according to MartiKau AT; strike out ל׳ Greek Version of the LXX Hi We, compare VB) עשׂה ל׳ = make a feast Ecclesiastes 10:19; מַטֵּה ל׳ staff of bread (as support of life), only late † Ezekiel 4:16; Ezekiel 5:16; Ezekiel 14:13; Leviticus 26:26 (H), Psalm 105:16; cf.מִשְׁעַן ל׳ Isaiah 3:1 (gloss) †; leavened bread is חָמֵץ ל׳ Leviticus 7:13; unleavened bread is מַצּוֺת ל׳ Exodus 29:2 (both P); † (הַ)פָּנִים ל׳ bread of the face (of י׳; i.e. in his presence, DiLeviticus 24:9 Dr1 Samuel 21:7); in the sanctuary 1 Samuel 21:7; 1 Kings 7:48 2 Chronicles 4:19; Exodus 25:30; Exodus 35:13; Exodus 39:36, without פ׳ Exodus 40:23 (all P); = הַתָּמִיד ל׳ Numbers 4:7 (P), קֹדֶשׁ ל׳ 1 Samuel 21:5; in Chronicles הַמַּעֲרָ֑כֶת ל׳ 1 Chronicles 9:32; compare 1 Chronicles 23:29; Nehemiah 10:34, ל׳ מ׳ 2 Chronicles 13:11; opposed to חֹל ל׳ 1 Samuel 21:5 †; תְּנוּפִה ל׳ Leviticus 23:17 wave-loaf; (הַ)בִּכֻּרִים ל׳ Leviticus 23:20; 2 Kings 4:42 bread of first-fruits.
† b. = bread-corn, the material from which bread is made, i.e. wheat, barley, etc.: Genesis 41:54, 55 (E), Genesis 47:13, 15, 17 (twice in verse); Genesis 47:19 (J), Genesis 49:20 (poem in J), Isaiah 28:28; Isaiah 30:23; Isaiah 55:10; Jeremiah 5:17; Ezekiel 48:18; Job 28:5; Proverbs 28:3; Psalm 104:14; הָאָרֶץ ל׳ Numbers 15:19 (P), ארץ ל׳ 2 Kings 18:32 = Isaiah 36:17 †.
2. food in general:
a. of man, Judges 13:16 (kid, Judges 13:15) 1 Samuel 14:24 (twice in verse); 1 Samuel 14:28 (honey), 1 Samuel 28:20; 1 Samuel 30:12; Proverbs 22:9; Proverbs 27:27 (twice in verse) (goat's milk) +; לְכָלבָּֿשָׂר נֹתֵן ל׳ Psalm 136:25.
†b. of animals, Proverbs 6:8; Proverbs 30:25; Prov 65:25; Job 24:5 + Psalm 147:9 †.
c. of God (in sacrifices): † אֱלֹהֵיהֶם ל׳ (compare RSSemitic i. 207, 2nd ed., 224) Leviticus 21:6 compare Leviticus 21:8; Leviticus 21:17; Leviticus 21:21; Leviticus 21:22, Leviticus 22:25 (all H), compare Numbers 28:2 (P), Ezekiel 16:19; Ezekiel 44:7, and מְגֹאָל ל׳ Malachi 1:7, also (לי׳) אִשֶּׁה ל׳ Leviticus 3:11, 16; Numbers 28:24 (all P) †.
3. other phrases and figurative uses are:
a. רֶשַׁע ל׳ Proverbs 4:17 (accusative of congnate meaning with verb with לָחַם), probably = food gained by wickedness ׅ || (יִיִן חֲמָסִים, compare שָׁ֑קֶר ל׳ Proverbs 20:17, כְּזָבִים ל׳ Proverbs 23:3; עַצְלוּת ל׳ Proverbs 31:27 = bread of idleness, i.e. unearned; חֻקִּי ל׳ Proverbs 30:8 (opposed to riches and poverty, see חֹק); לַחַץ ל׳ 1 Kings 22:27 = 2 Chronicles 18:26, see לַחַץ below; הָעֲצָבִים ל׳ Psalm 127:2 see II. עֶצָב; אוֺנִים ל׳ Hosea 9:4, see אָוֶן; אֲנָשִׁים ל׳ Ezekiel 24:17, 22 of food offered to mourners, compare Jeremiah 16:7 (where insert ל׳ Greek Version of the LXX Gf Gie); שַׁלַּח לחמך עלפֿני המים Ecclesiastes 11:1 usual interpration of benevolent giving (compare Now); De and others of sea-commerce in bread-stuffs, compare Proverbs 31:14.
b. figurative לַחְמֵנוּ הֵם Numbers 14:9 (JE) our food are they, i.e. we will devour, destroy, them (compare Deuteronomy 7:16); דִּמְעָתִּי ל׳ Psalm 42:4; compare Psalm 80:6 (see אכל above); ל׳ of evil deeds of wicked Job 20:14; עֵץ בְּלַחְמוֺ Jeremiah 11:19 apparently fig.of destroying the prophet and his house, but read probably בְּלֵחוֺ in its freshness (i.e. untimely), so Hi Gf Che Gie (see לֵחַ below לחח above).

See related Aramaic BDB entry H3900.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

3:19; 18:5; 27:17; 31:54; 31:54; 37:25; 41:54; 41:55; 43:25; 43:32; 47:13; 47:15; 47:17; 47:19; 49:20; 49:20

Exodus

16:3; 16:3; 16:8; 16:12; 21:14; 25:30; 29:2; 29:2; 29:23; 29:32; 29:34; 35:13; 39:36; 40:23

Leviticus

3:11; 3:16; 7:13; 8:31; 21:6; 21:8; 21:17; 21:21; 21:22; 22:25; 23:17; 23:18; 23:20; 24:9; 26:26; 26:26

Numbers

4:7; 14:9; 15:19; 21:5; 28:2; 28:24

Deuteronomy

7:16; 8:3; 23:5

Joshua

9:5; 9:12

Judges

7:13; 13:15; 13:16; 19:5

1 Samuel

2:36; 2:36; 9:7; 10:4; 10:4; 14:24; 14:28; 16:20; 17:7; 20:27; 21:4; 21:5; 21:5; 21:7; 21:7; 25:11; 25:18; 28:20; 28:22; 30:12

2 Samuel

6:19; 16:1

1 Kings

7:48; 14:3; 17:6; 17:11; 22:27

2 Kings

4:42; 4:42; 4:42; 18:32

1 Chronicles

9:32; 12:40; 23:29

2 Chronicles

4:19; 13:11; 18:26

Nehemiah

10:34

Job

3:24; 20:14; 24:5; 28:5

Psalms

14:4; 41:10; 42:4; 78:20; 80:6; 104:14; 105:16; 127:2; 136:25; 147:9

Proverbs

4:17; 6:8; 20:17; 22:9; 23:3; 27:27; 28:3; 28:21; 30:8; 30:25; 31:14; 31:27

Ecclesiastes

10:19; 11:1

Isaiah

3:1; 28:28; 30:23; 36:17; 44:15; 44:19; 55:10

Jeremiah

5:17; 11:19; 16:7; 37:21

Ezekiel

4:9; 4:16; 5:16; 13:19; 14:13; 16:19; 24:17; 24:22; 44:7; 48:18

Daniel

10:3

Hosea

9:4; 9:4; 9:4; 9:4

Obadiah

1:7; 1:7

Malachi

1:7

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H3899 matches the Hebrew לֶחֶם (leḥem),
which occurs 299 times in 277 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 2 / 6 (Lev 21:17–1Sa 20:27)

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:17 - Speak unto Aaron, saying, Whosoever he be of thy seed in their generations that hath any blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread H3899 of his God.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:21 - No man that hath a blemish of the seed of Aaron the priest shall come nigh to offer the offerings of the LORD made by fire: he hath a blemish; he shall not come nigh to offer the bread H3899 of his God.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:22 - He shall eat the bread H3899 of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:7 - And when the sun is down, he shall be clean, and shall afterward eat of the holy things; because it is his food. H3899
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:11 - But if the priest buy any soul with his money, he shall eat of it, and he that is born in his house: they shall eat of his meat. H3899
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:13 - But if the priest's daughter be a widow, or divorced, and have no child, and is returned unto her father's house, as in her youth, she shall eat of her father's meat: H3899 but there shall no stranger eat thereof.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:25 - Neither from a stranger's hand shall ye offer the bread H3899 of your God of any of these; because their corruption is in them, and blemishes be in them: they shall not be accepted for you.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:14 - And ye shall eat neither bread, H3899 nor parched corn, nor green ears, until the selfsame day that ye have brought an offering unto your God: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:17 - Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves H3899 of two tenth deals: they shall be of fine flour; they shall be baken with leaven; they are the firstfruits unto the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:18 - And ye shall offer with the bread H3899 seven lambs without blemish of the first year, and one young bullock, and two rams: they shall be for a burnt offering unto the LORD, with their meat offering, and their drink offerings, even an offering made by fire, of sweet savour unto the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:20 - And the priest shall wave them with the bread H3899 of the firstfruits for a wave offering before the LORD, with the two lambs: they shall be holy to the LORD for the priest.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 24:7 - And thou shalt put pure frankincense upon each row, that it may be on the bread H3899 for a memorial, even an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:5 - And your threshing shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing time: and ye shall eat your bread H3899 to the full, and dwell in your land safely.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:26 - And when I have broken the staff of your bread, H3899 ten women shall bake your bread H3899 in one oven, and they shall deliver you your bread H3899 again by weight: and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:7 - And upon the table of shewbread they shall spread a cloth of blue, and put thereon the dishes, and the spoons, and the bowls, and covers to cover withal: and the continual bread H3899 shall be thereon:
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:9 - Only rebel not ye against the LORD, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread H3899 for us: their defence is departed from them, and the LORD is with us: fear them not.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:19 - Then it shall be, that, when ye eat of the bread H3899 of the land, ye shall offer up an heave offering unto the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:5 - And the people spake against God, and against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, H3899 neither is there any water; and our soul loatheth this light bread. H3899
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 28:2 - Command the children of Israel, and say unto them, My offering, and my bread H3899 for my sacrifices made by fire, for a sweet savour unto me, shall ye observe to offer unto me in their due season.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 28:24 - After this manner ye shall offer daily, throughout the seven days, the meat H3899 of the sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD: it shall be offered beside the continual burnt offering, and his drink offering.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:3 - And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread H3899 only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:9 - A land wherein thou shalt eat bread H3899 without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:9 - When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread H3899 nor drink water:
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:18 - And I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights: I did neither eat bread, H3899 nor drink water, because of all your sins which ye sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:18 - He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food H3899 and raiment.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:3 - Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread therewith, even the bread H3899 of affliction; for thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt in haste: that thou mayest remember the day when thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of thy life.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:4 - Because they met you not with bread H3899 and with water in the way, when ye came forth out of Egypt; and because they hired against thee Balaam the son of Beor of Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse thee.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:6 - Ye have not eaten bread, H3899 neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink: that ye might know that I am the LORD your God.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:5 - And old shoes and clouted upon their feet, and old garments upon them; and all the bread H3899 of their provision was dry and mouldy.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:12 - This our bread H3899 we took hot for our provision out of our houses on the day we came forth to go unto you; but now, behold, it is dry, and it is mouldy:
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:13 - And when Gideon was come, behold, there was a man that told a dream unto his fellow, and said, Behold, I dreamed a dream, and, lo, a cake of barley bread H3899 tumbled into the host of Midian, and came unto a tent, and smote it that it fell, and overturned it, that the tent lay along.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:5 - And he said unto the men of Succoth, Give, I pray you, loaves of bread H3899 unto the people that follow me; for they be faint, and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, kings of Midian.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:6 - And the princes of Succoth said, Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in thine hand, that we should give bread H3899 unto thine army?
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:15 - And he came unto the men of Succoth, and said, Behold Zebah and Zalmunna, with whom ye did upbraid me, saying, Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in thine hand, that we should give bread H3899 unto thy men that are weary?
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:16 - And the angel of the LORD said unto Manoah, Though thou detain me, I will not eat of thy bread: H3899 and if thou wilt offer a burnt offering, thou must offer it unto the LORD. For Manoah knew not that he was an angel of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:5 - And it came to pass on the fourth day, when they arose early in the morning, that he rose up to depart: and the damsel's father said unto his son in law, Comfort thine heart with a morsel of bread, H3899 and afterward go your way.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:19 - Yet there is both straw and provender for our asses; and there is bread H3899 and wine also for me, and for thy handmaid, and for the young man which is with thy servants: there is no want of any thing.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:6 - Then she arose with her daughters in law, that she might return from the country of Moab: for she had heard in the country of Moab how that the LORD had visited his people in giving them bread. H3899
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:14 - And Boaz said unto her, At mealtime come thou hither, and eat of the bread, H3899 and dip thy morsel in the vinegar. And she sat beside the reapers: and he reached her parched corn, and she did eat, and was sufficed, and left.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:5 - They that were full have hired out themselves for bread; H3899 and they that were hungry ceased: so that the barren hath born seven; and she that hath many children is waxed feeble.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:36 - And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left in thine house shall come and crouch to him for a piece of silver and a morsel of bread, H3899 and shall say, Put me, I pray thee, into one of the priests' offices, that I may eat a piece of bread. H3899
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:7 - Then said Saul to his servant, But, behold, if we go, what shall we bring the man? for the bread H3899 is spent in our vessels, and there is not a present to bring to the man of God: what have we?
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:3 - Then shalt thou go on forward from thence, and thou shalt come to the plain of Tabor, and there shall meet thee three men going up to God to Bethel, one carrying three kids, and another carrying three loaves of bread, H3899 and another carrying a bottle of wine:
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:4 - And they will salute thee, and give thee two loaves of bread; H3899 which thou shalt receive of their hands.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:24 - And the men of Israel were distressed that day: for Saul had adjured the people, saying, Cursed be the man that eateth any food H3899 until evening, that I may be avenged on mine enemies. So none of the people tasted any food. H3899
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:28 - Then answered one of the people, and said, Thy father straitly charged the people with an oath, saying, Cursed be the man that eateth any food H3899 this day. And the people were faint.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:20 - And Jesse took an ass laden with bread, H3899 and a bottle of wine, and a kid, and sent them by David his son unto Saul.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:17 - And Jesse said unto David his son, Take now for thy brethren an ephah of this parched corn, and these ten loaves, H3899 and run to the camp to thy brethren;
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:24 - So David hid himself in the field: and when the new moon was come, the king sat him down to eat meat. H3899
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:27 - And it came to pass on the morrow, which was the second day of the month, that David's place was empty: and Saul said unto Jonathan his son, Wherefore cometh not the son of Jesse to meat, H3899 neither yesterday, nor to day?

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