לֶחִי
Lechîy · H3896 · Hebrew · proper noun · 4 occurrences
Place
- Lehifirst named in Judges 15:93 verses
Meanings
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Lehi
Location; near the border with Philistia where Samson killed many Philistines with a donkey jawbone
ExamplesJudges 15:9 Then the Philistines went up and camped in Judah, and spread out in Lehi.
Judges 15:14 When he came to Lehi, the Philistines shouted as they met him. And the Spirit of the LORD rushed upon him so that the ropes that were on his arms were like flax that has burned with fire, and his restraints dropped from his hands.
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
Second object ofSecond object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- קָרָאto call, to cry out 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
4 occurrences in 2 groups
- בin/on/with 4
- עַדto, as far as, until 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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Semantic domains 1 entry
- Names of Locations003001010
- Lehi names the site where Samson slew a thousand Philistines with a donkey's jawbone, as in Judges 15:17's naming of "that place Ramath-lehi," placing it among place names — sharing its domain with the common noun לְחִי ('jawbone,' לְחִי (lᵉchîy, H3895)) that gave the site its name.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3896. Lechi II. לְחִי proper name, of a location scene of an exploit of Samson; — ׳ל Jdg…
II. לְחִי proper name, of a location scene of an exploit of Samson; — ׳ל Jdg 15:19 (twice in verse) (ᵐ5 Σιαγων), לֶ֔חִי Jdg 15:14; with article בַּלֶּחי Jdg 15:9 (ᵐ5 Λευει, ᵐ5L Λεχει), compare לֶ֑חִי רָ֫מַת Jdg 15:17 = height of Lehi (explanation as from לְחִי jawbone, compare GFM, ᵐ5 Ἀναίρεσις σιαγόνος also 2Sa 23:11, where read לֶחְיָה to Lehi, for לַחַיָּה, see II. חַיָּה, p. 2Sam 31:2above; (ᵐ5 θηρία; ᵐ5L σιαγόνα). It must have lain in the Shephelah, near the border of the hill-country of Judah (BuhlGeogr. 91); site unknown; conjectures are cited and criticized by GFMJudg 15, 19 q. see
לחח (√ of following; compare Ethiopic . II. I. moisten, cool; be moistened DiLex. 30; Late Hebrew לִחְלַח Pilpal moisten thoroughly, Aramaic לַחְלַח id., Late Hebrew לַח moist, fresh; לֵיחָה moisture, freshness, etc.)
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Sources
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