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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 3 / 6 (1Sa 20:34–2Ki 25:29)

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:34 - Then Jonathan got up from the table in the heat of anger, and did not eat food H3899 on the second day of the new moon, because he was worried about David since his father had insulted him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 21:3 - “Now then, what [fn]do you have on hand? Give [fn]me five loaves of bread H3899, or whatever can be found.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 21:4 - The priest answered David and said, “There is no ordinary bread H3899 [fn]on hand, but there is consecrated bread H3899, if only the young men have kept themselves from women.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 21:6 - So the priest gave him consecrated bread; for there was no bread H3899 there except the bread H3899 of the Presence which was removed from its place before the LORD, in order to put hot bread H3899 in its place on the day it was taken away.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:13 - Saul then said to him, “Why have you and the son of Jesse conspired against me, in that you have given him bread H3899 and a sword, and have inquired of God for him, so that he would rise up against me by lying in ambush as it is this day?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:11 - “Shall I then take my bread H3899 and my water and my meat that I have slaughtered for my shearers, and give it to men [fn]whose origin I do not know?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:18 -

Then Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves of bread H3899 and two jugs of wine, and five sheep already prepared and five measures of roasted grain, and a hundred cakes of raisins and two hundred cakes of figs, and she loaded them on donkeys.

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:20 -

Then Saul immediately fell full length to the ground and was very afraid because of Samuel’s words; there was no strength in him either, because he had eaten no [fn]food H3899 all day and all night.

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:22 - “So now you too, please listen to the voice of your servant, and let me serve you a piece of bread H3899, and eat it, so that you will have strength when you go on your way.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:11 -

Now they found an Egyptian in the field and brought him to David, and gave him bread H3899 and he ate, and they provided him water to drink.

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:12 - They also gave him a slice of fig cake and two cakes of raisins, and he ate; then his spirit [fn]revived. For he had not eaten bread H3899 or drunk water for three days and three nights.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:29 - “May it turn upon the head of Joab and on all his father’s house; and may there not be eliminated from the house of Joab someone who suffers a discharge, or has leprosy, or [fn]holds the spindle, or falls by the sword, or lacks bread H3899.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:35 - Then all the people came to provide [fn]food H3899 for David in his distress while it was still day; but David vowed, saying, “May God do so to me, and more so, if I taste bread H3899 or anything else before the sun goes down.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 6:19 - Further, he distributed to all the people, to all the multitude of Israel, both to men and women, a cake of bread H3899, one of dates, and one of raisins to each one. Then all the people left, each to his house.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 9:7 - Then David said to him, “Do not be afraid, for I will assuredly show kindness to you for the sake of your father Jonathan, and I will restore to you all the [fn]land of your [fn]grandfather Saul; and you yourself shall [fn]eat at my table regularly.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 9:10 - “You and your sons and your servants shall cultivate the land for him, and you shall bring in the produce so that your master’s grandson will have food H3899 [fn]to eat; nevertheless Mephibosheth, your master’s grandson, shall [fn]eat at my table regularly.” Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:17 - The elders of his household stood beside him in order to help him up from the ground, but he was unwilling and would not eat food H3899 with them.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:20 - So David got up from the ground, washed, anointed himself, and changed his clothes; and he went into the house of the LORD and worshiped. Then he went to his own house, and when he asked, they served him food H3899, and he ate.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:21 -

Then his servants said to him, “What is this thing that you have done? You fasted and wept for the child while he was [fn]alive; but when the child died, you got up and ate food H3899.”

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:5 - Jonadab then said to him, “Lie down on your bed and pretend to be ill; when your father comes to see you, say to him, ‘Please have my sister Tamar come and give me food H3899 to eat, and have her prepare the [fn]food in my sight, so that I may see it and eat from her hand.’”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:1 -

Now when David had gone on a little beyond the summit, behold, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him with a team of saddled donkeys, and on them were two hundred loaves of bread H3899, a hundred cakes of raisins, a hundred summer fruits, and a jug of wine.

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:2 - And the king said to Ziba, “Why do you have these?” And Ziba said, “The donkeys are for the king’s household to ride, the bread H3899 and summer fruit are for the young men to eat, and the wine, for whoever is weary in the wilderness to drink.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:22 -

Solomon’s [fn]provision H3899 for one day was [fn]thirty kors of fine flour and [fn]sixty kors of meal,

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 5:9 - “My servants will bring the timbers down from Lebanon to the sea; and I will have them made into rafts to go by sea to the place where you [fn]direct me, and I will have them broken up there, and you will carry them away. Then you shall do what I wish, by giving food H3899 to my household.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:48 -

Solomon also made all the furniture that was in the house of the LORD: the golden altar and the golden table on which was set the bread H3899 of the Presence;

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:18 - They set out from Midian and came to Paran; and they took men with them from Paran and came to Egypt, to Pharaoh king of Egypt, who gave him a house and assigned him food H3899 and gave him land.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:8 - But the man of God said to the king, “If you were to give me half your house, I would not go with you, nor would I eat bread H3899 or drink water in this place.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:9 - “For so [fn]it was commanded me by the word of the LORD, saying, ‘You shall not eat bread H3899 nor drink water, nor return by the way that you came.’”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:15 - Then he said to him, “Come home with me and eat bread H3899.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:16 - But he said, “I cannot return with you, nor come with you, nor will I eat bread H3899 or drink water with you in this place.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:17 - “For a [fn]command came to me by the word of the LORD: ‘You shall not eat bread H3899, nor drink water there; do not return by going the way that you came.’”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:18 - Then he said to him, “I too am a prophet like you, and an angel spoke to me by the word of the LORD, saying, ‘Bring him back with you to your house, so that he may eat bread H3899 and drink water.’” But he lied to him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:19 - So he went back with him, and ate bread H3899 in his house and drank water.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:22 - but have returned and eaten bread H3899 and drunk water in the place of which He said to you, “You are not to eat bread H3899 nor drink water”; your dead body will not come to the grave of your fathers.’”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:23 - It came about after he had eaten bread H3899 and after he had drunk, that he saddled the donkey for him, for the prophet whom he had brought back.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:3 - “Take ten loaves H3899 with you, some pastries, and a jar of honey, and go to him. He will tell you what will happen to the boy.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:6 - And the ravens brought him bread H3899 and meat in the morning and bread H3899 and meat in the evening, and he would drink from the brook.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:11 - As she was going to get it, he called to her and said, “Please bring me a piece of bread H3899 in your hand.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:4 - for when Jezebel killed the prophets of the LORD, Obadiah took a hundred prophets and hid them by fifties in a cave, and provided them with bread H3899 and water.)
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:13 - “Has it not been reported to my master what I did when Jezebel killed the prophets of the LORD, that I hid a hundred [fn]prophets of the LORD by fifties in a cave, and provided them with bread H3899 and water?
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:4 - So Ahab entered his house sullen and furious because of the [fn]answer that Naboth the Jezreelite had given to him, since he said, “I will not give you the inheritance of my fathers.” And he lay down on his bed and turned his face away, and ate no [fn]food H3899.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:5 -

But Jezebel his wife came to him and said to him, “How is it that your spirit is so sullen that you are not eating [fn]food H3899?”

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:7 - Jezebel his wife said to him, “Do you now [fn]reign over Israel? Arise, eat bread H3899, and let your heart be joyful; I will give you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:27 - and say, ‘This is what the king says: “Put this man in prison, and feed him enough bread H3899 and water to survive until I [fn]return safely.”’”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:8 -

Now a day came when Elisha went over to Shunem, where there was a [fn]prominent woman, and she urged him to eat [fn]food H3899. And so it was, as often as he passed by, that he turned in there to eat [fn]food H3899.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:42 -

Now a man came from Baal-shalishah, and brought the man of God bread H3899 of the first fruits, twenty loaves H3899 of barley and fresh grain in his sack. And Elisha said, “Give them to the people that they may eat.”

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:22 - But he [fn]answered, “You shall not [fn]kill them. Would you [fn]kill those whom you have taken captive with your sword and your bow? Set bread H3899 and water before them, so that they may eat and drink, and go to their master.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:32 - until I come and take you to a land like your own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread H3899 and vineyards, a land of olive trees producing oil, and of honey, so that you will live and not die.” But do not listen to Hezekiah, because he misleads you by saying, “The LORD will save us.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:3 - On the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was so severe in the city that there was no food H3899 for the people of the land.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:29 - So [fn]Jehoiachin changed his prison clothes, and [fn]had his meals H3899 in [fn]the king’s presence regularly all the days of his life;

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