לָחוּם
lâchûwm · H3894 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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flesh, bowels, entrails
Exact meaning unsure; possibly: the flesh of the human body, possibly referring more specifically to the bowels or entrails
ExamplesJob 20:23 “When he fills his belly, God will send His fierce anger on him And rain it on him while he is eating.
Zephaniah 1:17 I will bring distress on mankind So that they will walk like those who are blind, Because they have sinned against the LORD; And their blood will be poured out like dust, And their flesh like dung.
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
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- הוּhis 1
- הֶםtheir 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בin/on/with 2
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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In the other Testament 1 word
- σάρξ sárx · G4561 · flesh, body, physical body
- Greek σάρξ is the standard translation equivalent for Hebrew flesh/meat terminology; it corresponds to the 'flesh' sense of לָחוּם which appears in contexts referring to meat/flesh (Lev 6:27, Num 19:5)
Semantic domains 1 entry
- People001001003
- לָחוּם appears in contexts describing a person consuming food or, by extension, the flesh of the body, as in Zephaniah 1:17's "their flesh like dung" describing the fate of mankind, placing the word within its human bodily context.
Word family 6 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3894. lechum לְחוּם noun [masculine] perhaps intestines, bowels (meaning and √ not…
לְחוּם noun [masculine] perhaps intestines, bowels (meaning and √ not wholly certain, compare NöZMG xl. 886, 721; from לחם = press together, according to DlProl. 193); — only suffix: כַּגְּלָלִים וּלְחֻמֿם Zep 1:17 their blood shall be poured out like water,and their bowels like dung Hi-St (ct. 2Sa 20:10), Dll.c. We ('ihr Mark'), RothstKau AT DiJob 20:23; Gr חֵילָם compare Job 20:12 (to which Now included); Now suggests also וְלֵחָם and their moisture (freshness, vigour, compare Deu 34:7); > and others who render flesh, ᵐ5 τὰς σάρκας (compare Arabic flesh, meat, see below לֶחֶם); בִּלְחוּמוֺ עָלֵימוֺ וְיַמְטֵר Job 20:23 to fill his belly, God sendeth into him his burning anger, and raineth it upon him, into his (very) bowels Hi Dll.c. BaeKauAT (compare Di, and into his flesh De, see above); > distinguished from Zep 1:17 Di (in translation) Da Hoffm Bu his food (as object of ימטר; read then לַחְמוֺ); ᵐ5 ὀδύνας, whence Me Sgfr חֲבָלִים, SchwZAW x, 1890, 179 בַּלָּהָה; Nöl.c. wrath, compare Syriac threaten.
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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