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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.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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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 4 / 6 (1Ch 9:32–Pro 12:9)

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:32 - Some of their relatives of the sons of the Kohathites were over the showbread H3899 to prepare it every sabbath.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:40 - Moreover those who were near to them, even as far as Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali, brought food H3899 on donkeys, camels, mules, and on oxen, great provisions of flour, fig cakes and bunches of raisins, wine, oil, oxen, and sheep. There was gladness indeed in Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:3 - And he apportioned to everyone of Israel, both men and women, to everyone a loaf of bread H3899 and a portion of meat and a raisin cake.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:29 - and with the showbread H3899, and the fine flour for a grain offering, and unleavened wafers, or what is made on the griddle, or what is well stirred, and all measures of volume and size.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 4:19 -

Solomon also made all the furniture which was in the house of God: even the golden altar and the tables with the bread H3899 of the Presence on them,

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:11 - “And every morning and evening they [fn]burn to Yahweh burnt offerings and fragrant incense, and the showbread H3899 is set on the clean table, and the golden lampstand with its lamps is ready to light every evening; for we keep the responsibility given by Yahweh our God, but you have forsaken Him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:26 - and say, ‘Thus says the king, “Put this man in prison and feed him [fn]sparingly with bread H3899 and water until I return safely.”’”
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:6 - Then Ezra arose from before the house of God and went into the chamber of Jehohanan the son of Eliashib. He went there, but he did not eat bread H3899 nor drink water, for he was mourning over the unfaithfulness of the exiles.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:14 -

Moreover, from the day that I was put in command to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year to the thirty-second year of King Artaxerxes, for twelve years, neither I nor my [fn]relatives have eaten the governor’s food H3899 allowance.

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:15 - But the former governors who were before me [fn]laid heavy burdens on the people and took from them bread H3899 and wine besides forty [fn]shekels of silver; even their young men exerted their power over the people. But I did not do so because of the fear of God.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:18 - Now that which was prepared for each day was one ox and six choice sheep, also birds were prepared for me; and once in ten days all sorts of wine were furnished in abundance. Yet for all this I did not require the governor’s food H3899 allowance, because the slavery was heavy on this people.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:15 -

“You gave bread H3899 from heaven for them for their hunger,

You brought forth water from a rock for them for their thirst,

And You said to them to enter in order to possess

The land which You [fn]swore to give them.

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:33 - for the showbread H3899, for the continual grain offering, for the continual burnt offering, the sabbaths, the new moon, for the appointed times, for the holy things and for the sin offerings to make atonement for Israel, and all the work of the house of our God.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:2 - because they did not meet the sons of Israel with bread H3899 and water, but hired Balaam against them to curse them. However, our God turned the curse into a blessing.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:24 -

“For my groaning comes at the sight of my food H3899,

And my roaring pours out like water.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:7 -

“My soul refuses to touch them;

They are like loathsome food H3899 to me.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:23 -

“He wanders about for food H3899, saying, ‘Where is it?’

He knows that a day of darkness is ready at his hand.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:14 -

Yet his food H3899 in his stomach is changed

To the [fn]venom of cobras within him.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 22:7 -

“To the weary you have given no water to drink,

And from the hungry you have withheld bread H3899.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:5 -

“Behold, as wild donkeys in the wilderness

They go forth seeking food earnestly in their work,

The desert becomes [fn]for him a place of bread H3899 for his young ones.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:14 -

“Though his sons are many, [fn]they are destined for the sword;

And his offspring will not be satisfied with bread H3899.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:5 -

“The earth, from it comes food H3899,

And underneath it is overturned as fire.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:4 -

Who pluck [fn]mallow by the bushes,

And whose food H3899 is the root of the broom tree.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:20 -

So that his life loathes bread H3899,

And his soul favorite food.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 42:11 - Then all his brothers and all his sisters and all who had known him before came to him, and they ate bread H3899 with him in his house; and they consoled him and comforted him for all the calamity that Yahweh had brought on him. And each one gave him one [fn]qesitah, and each a ring of gold.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 14:4 -

Do all the workers of iniquity not know,

Who eat up my people as they eat bread H3899,

And do not call upon Yahweh?

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 37:25 -

Nun

I was young and now I am old,

Yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken

Or his seed begging bread H3899.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 41:9 -

Even my close friend in whom I trusted,

Who ate my bread H3899,

Has lifted up his heel against me.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 42:3 -

My tears have been my food H3899 day and night,

While they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 53:4 -

Do the workers of iniquity not know,

Who eat up my people as they eat bread H3899

And do not call upon God?

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:20 -

“Behold, He struck the rock so that waters gushed out,

And streams were overflowing;

Can He give bread H3899 also?

Will He prepare [fn]meat for His people?”

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:25 -

Man ate the bread H3899 of [fn]angels;

He sent them provision to satisfy.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 80:5 -

You have fed them with the bread H3899 of tears,

And You have made them to drink tears in [fn]large measure.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:4 -

My heart has been stricken like [fn]grass and it has dried up,

Indeed, I forget to eat my bread H3899.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:9 -

For I have eaten ashes like bread H3899

And mixed my drinks with weeping

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:14 -

[fn]He causes the grass to grow for the [fn]cattle,

And vegetation for man’s [fn]cultivation,

To bring forth [fn]food H3899 from the earth,

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:15 -

And wine which makes man’s heart glad,

To make his face glisten more than oil,

And [fn]food H3899 which sustains man’s heart.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:16 -

And He called for a famine upon the land;

He broke the whole staff of bread H3899.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:40 -

[fn]They asked, and He brought quail,

And He satisfied them with the [fn]bread H3899 of heaven.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 127:2 -

It is in vain that you rise up early,

That you sit out late,

O you who eat the bread H3899 of [fn]painful labors;

For in this manner, He gives sleep to His beloved.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 132:15 -

“I will abundantly bless her provision;

I will satisfy her needy with bread H3899.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 136:25 -

Who gives food H3899 to all flesh,

For His lovingkindness endures forever.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 146:7 -

Who does justice for the oppressed;

Who gives food H3899 to the hungry.

Yahweh sets the prisoners free.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 147:9 -

Who gives to the animal its food H3899,

And to the young ravens which call out.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:17 -

For they eat the bread H3899 of wickedness

And drink the wine of violence.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:8 -

Prepares her food H3899 in the summer

And gathers her provision in the harvest.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:26 -

For on account of [fn]a harlot one is reduced to a loaf of bread H3899,

And [fn]an adulteress hunts for the precious [fn]life.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 9:5 -

“Come, eat of my bread H3899

And drink of the wine I have mixed.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 9:17 -

“Stolen water is sweet;

And bread H3899 eaten in secret is pleasant.”

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 12:9 -

Better is he who is lightly esteemed and has a servant

Than he who honors himself and lacks bread H3899.


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