לָחֶם
lâchem · H3901 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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fighter, fighting
Exact meaning unsure; probably: action by which humans engage in a confrontation with other humans; alternatively: a person engaged in a confrontation with other humans
ExamplesJudges 5:8 “New gods were chosen; Then war was in the gates. Not a shield or a spear was seen Among forty thousand in Israel.
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
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Semantic domains 1 entry
- Conflict002003002006
- לָחֶם means war, as in Judges 5:8's "war was in the gates," placing it among terms of armed conflict.
Word family 6 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3901. lachem לָחֶם noun [masculine] only in שְׁעָרִים לָחֶ֣ם אָז Jdg 5:8 (so Masora;…
לָחֶם noun [masculine] only in שְׁעָרִים לָחֶ֣ם אָז Jdg 5:8 (so Masora; Manuscripts לָחֶ֣ם לָחֵ֣ם,), usually translated then was there war of ( = at) the gates, but improbable; text and meaning dubious; A ᵐ5L read is ὡς ἄρτον κρίθινον, whence BuRS 103 שְׂעֹרִים לֶחֶם אָז then they used to eat barley bread; but BuComm. {abbrev}ל ׳אָזַל שׂ the barley bread was exhausted; Mayer LambertRŠJ xxx, 115 ערים לחמשׁ אז then for (in) 5 citiesno shield was seen, etc.; other conjectures in KauAT; compare 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
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