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Lexicon :: Strong's H3899 - leḥem

Aa
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 5 / 6 (Pro 12:11–Eze 4:9)

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 12:11 -

He who cultivates his land will be satisfied with bread H3899,

But he who pursues empty things lacks a heart of wisdom.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 20:13 -

Do not love sleep, lest you become poor;

Open your eyes, and you will be satisfied with [fn]food H3899.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 20:17 -

Bread H3899 obtained by lying is sweet to a man,

But afterward his mouth will be filled with gravel.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:9 -

He who [fn]is generous will be blessed,

For he gives from his food H3899 to the poor.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:3 -

Do not desire his delicacies,

For it is bread H3899 of falsehood.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:6 -

Do not eat the bread H3899 of [fn]a selfish man,

And do not desire his delicacies;

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 25:21 -

If [fn]your enemy is hungry, give him food H3899 to eat;

And if he is thirsty, give him water to drink;

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:27 -

And there will be enough goats’ milk for your food H3899,

For the food H3899 of your household,

And sustenance for your maidens.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 28:3 -

A poor man who oppresses the lowly

Is a driving rain [fn]which leaves no food H3899.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 28:19 -

He who cultivates his ground will be satisfied with food H3899,

But he who pursues empty things will be satisfied with poverty.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 28:21 -

To [fn]show partiality is not good,

Even for a piece of bread H3899 a man will transgress.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:8 -

Keep worthlessness and every false word far from me,

Give me neither poverty nor riches;

Feed me with the food H3899 that is my portion,

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:22 -

Under a slave when he becomes king,

And a wicked fool when he is satisfied with food H3899,

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:25 -

The ants are not a strong people,

But they prepare their food H3899 in the summer;

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 31:14 -

He

She is like merchant ships;

She brings her food H3899 from afar.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 31:27 -

Tsadhe

She watches over the ways of her household,

And does not eat the bread H3899 of [fn]idleness.

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:7 -

Go then, eat your bread H3899 in gladness and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God has already accepted your works.

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:11 -

I again saw under the sun that the race is not to the swift and the battle is not to the mighty, and neither is bread H3899 to the wise nor riches to the discerning nor favor to men who know; for time and misfortune overtake them all.

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 10:19 - Men prepare bread H3899 for laughter, and wine makes life glad, and money [fn]is the answer to everything.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 11:1 -

Cast your bread H3899 on the surface of the waters, for you will find it [fn]after many days.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 3:1 -

For behold, the Lord, Yahweh of hosts, is going to remove from Jerusalem and Judah

Both [fn]supply and support, the whole [fn]supply of bread H3899

And the whole [fn]supply of water,

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 3:7 -

He will [fn]protest on that day, saying,

“I will not be your [fn]healer,

For in my house there is neither bread H3899 nor cloak;

You should not appoint me ruler of the people.”

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 4:1 -

And seven women will take hold of one man in that day, saying, “We will eat our own bread H3899 and wear our own clothes, only let us be called by your name; take away our reproach!”

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 21:14 -

Bring water to meet the thirsty,

O inhabitants of the land of Tema,

Meet with bread H3899 the one who has fled.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:28 -

Grain for bread H3899 is crushed,

But he does not continue to thresh it forever.

Because the wheel of his cart and his horses eventually [fn]disturb it,

He does not crush it longer.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:20 - The Lord has given you bread H3899 of distress and water of oppression; He, your Teacher will no longer hide Himself, but your eyes will see your Teacher.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:23 -

Then He will give you rain for [fn]the seed which you will sow in the ground, and bread H3899 from the produce of the ground, and it will be [fn]rich and fat; on that day your livestock will graze in a roomy pasture.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:16 -

He will dwell on the heights,

His refuge will be the strongholds of the cliffs;

His bread H3899 will be given him,

His water will be sure.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:17 - until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread H3899 and vineyards.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:15 - Then it becomes something for a man to burn, so he takes one of them and warms himself; he also kindles a fire to bake bread H3899. He also works to produce a god and worships it; he makes it a graven image and falls down before it.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:19 - No one causes this to return to his heart, nor is there knowledge or understanding to say, “I have burned half of it in the fire and also have baked bread H3899 over its coals. I roast meat and eat it. Then [fn]I make the rest of it into an abomination; [fn]I fall down before a block of wood!”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:14 -

“The one in chains will soon be set free and will not die in the pit, nor will his bread H3899 be lacking.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 55:2 -

“Why do you [fn]spend money for what is not bread H3899,

And your wages for what does not satisfy?

Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good,

And delight your soul in richness.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 55:10 -

“For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven,

And do not return there without watering the earth

And making it bear and sprout,

And giving seed to the sower and bread H3899 to the eater,

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 58:7 -

“Is it not to divide your bread H3899 [fn]with the hungry

And bring the afflicted homeless into the house;

When you see the naked, you cover him;

And not to hide yourself from your own flesh?

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:25 - “The wolf and the lamb will graze together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox; and dust will be the serpent’s food H3899. They will do no evil nor act corruptly in all My holy mountain,” says Yahweh.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:17 -

“They will devour your harvest and your food H3899;

They will devour your sons and your daughters;

They will devour your flocks and your herds;

They will devour your vines and your fig trees;

They will demolish with the sword your fortified cities in which you trust.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:19 -

But I was like a gentle lamb led to the slaughter;

And I did not know that they had devised thoughts against me, saying,

“Let us make the tree with its [fn]fruit H3899 a ruin,

And let us cut him off from the land of the living,

That his name be remembered no more.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:21 - Then King Zedekiah gave commandment, and they committed Jeremiah to the court of the guard and gave him a loaf of bread H3899 daily from the bakers’ street, until all the bread H3899 in the city had come to an end. So Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:9 - “My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet whom they have cast into the cistern; and he [fn]will die right where he is because of the famine, for there is no more bread H3899 in the city.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 41:1 -

Now it happened in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the royal seed and one of the chief officers of the king, along with ten men, came to Mizpah to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam. And they were eating bread H3899 together there in Mizpah.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 42:14 - saying, “No, but we will go to the land of Egypt, where we will not see war or hear the sound of a trumpet or hunger for bread H3899, and we will stay there,”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:17 - “But rather we will certainly carry out every word that has proceeded from our mouths, [fn]by burning incense to the queen of heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, just as we ourselves, our fathers, our kings, and our princes did in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; for then we had plenty of [fn]food H3899 and were well off and saw no evil.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:6 - On the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine was so strong in the city that there was no food H3899 for the people of the land.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:33 - So [fn]Jehoiachin changed his prison clothes and [fn]had his meals H3899 in [fn]the king’s presence continually all the days of his life.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:11 -

Kaph

All her people are sighing, seeking bread H3899;

They have given their desirable things for food

To restore their souls.

“See, O Yahweh, and look,

For I am despised.”

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:4 -

Daleth

The tongue of the nursing baby cleaves

To the roof of its mouth because of thirst;

The infants ask for bread H3899,

But no one breaks it for them.

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:6 -

We have given over our [fn]hands to Egypt and Assyria [fn]to get enough bread H3899.

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:9 -

We get our bread H3899 [fn]at the risk of our lives

[fn]Because of the sword in the wilderness.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:9 -

“Now as for you, take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt; set them in one vessel and make them into bread H3899 for yourself; you shall eat it according to the number of the days that you lie on your side, 390 days.


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