לֵחַ
lêach · H3893 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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vigor, virility
Literally: freshness; hence: state in which humans are in possession of physical strength, energy and a sex drive
ExamplesDeuteronomy 34:7 Although Moses was 120 years old when he died, his eyesight was not dim, nor had his vigor left him.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הוּhis 1
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- נוּסto flee 1
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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Semantic domains 1 entry
- Strong002001001063
- לֵחַ denotes vigor or natural force, as in Deuteronomy 34:7's report that Moses at 120 years old had eyesight undimmed and his "vigor" undiminished, placing the word among terms of strength or vitality.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3893. leach [לֵחַ] noun masculine moisture, freshness (i.e. force, vigour); — suffix…
[לֵחַ] noun masculine moisture, freshness (i.e. force, vigour); — suffix לֵחהֹ נָס וְלֹא Deu 34:7 and his freshness had not fled; read probably also בְּלֵחוֺ for בְּלַחְמוֺ ᵑ0 Jer 11:19 (see לֶחֶם near the end; on Zep 1:17 see לְחוּם).
לֶ֑חִי לְחִי, see לחה.
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
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