לַח
lach · H3892 · Hebrew · 6 occurrences
Meanings
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fresh
State in which a fruit, tree branch, or other natural product still contains some of its internal juices and has not yet dried out
ExamplesGenesis 30:37 Then Jacob took fresh rods of poplar, almond, and plane trees, and peeled white stripes in them, exposing the white that was in the rods.
Numbers 6:3 he shall abstain from wine and strong drink; he shall consume no vinegar, whether made from wine or strong drink, nor shall he drink any grape juice nor eat fresh or dried grapes.
Judges 16:7 And Samson said to her, “If they bind me with seven fresh animal tendons that have not been dried, then I will become weak and be like any other man.”
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- רַעֲנָן raʻănân · H7488 · green, flourishing, spreading
- These are distinct Hebrew words describing overlapping states of verdant freshness and moisture.
In the other Testament 1 word
- χλωρός chlōrós · G5515 · green, light green, pale
- Greek χλωρός renders Hebrew לַח in contexts describing vegetation or organic matter that is fresh, moist, and green (living state), functioning as the standard LXX equivalent for this sense of vitality/freshness in plant life.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Stage002001001060
- לַח describes something fresh, green, or moist as opposed to dried or withered, as in Judges 16:7's "seven fresh animal tendons that have not been dried," describing an early, undried stage of a material's condition.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3892. lach לַח adjective moist, fresh, new; — ׳ל Gen 30:37; Eze 21:3; לָ֑חEze 17:24;…
לַח adjective moist, fresh, new; — ׳ל Gen 30:37; Eze 21:3; לָ֑חEze 17:24; plural לַחִים Num 6:3 Num 6:2t.; —
1 moist, fresh, of trees, fruit, etc.; לַח לִבְנֶה Gen 30:37 (J); ל ׳עֵץ Eze 17:24; Eze 21:3; grapes ל ׳עֲנָבִים Num 6:3.
2 new, of cords, ל ׳יְתָרִים Jdg 16:7-8, probably made of fresh sinews of animal (compare Syriac PS1652; GFMon the passage)
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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