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לַחַשׁ

lachash · H3908 · Hebrew · 5 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. whispering

    Action by which people talk softly among themselves to keep others from overhearing

    Examples

    Isaiah 26:16 LORD, they sought You in distress; They could only whisper a prayer, Your discipline was upon them.

  2. charming

    Literally: whispering; hence: action by which humans (appear to) control a snake by means of sounds

    Examples

    Ecclesiastes 10:11 If the serpent bites before being charmed, there is no benefit for the charmer.

    Jeremiah 8:17 “For behold, I am sending serpents among you, Vipers for which there is no charm; And they will bite you,” declares the LORD.

  3. charm, amulet

    An object that is thought to offer protection against evil

    Examples

    Isaiah 3:3 The captain of fifty and the esteemed person, The counselor and the expert artisan, And the skillful enchanter.

    Isaiah 3:20 headdresses, ankle chains, sashes, perfume boxes, amulets,

How it’s used In 3 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

What it is said to bePredicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

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 3 entries
Speak002004001009008
לַחַשׁ carries a sense of quiet or murmured speech, as in Isaiah 26:16's "they could only whisper a prayer," placing it among terms of hushed utterance.
Control002003002007
The word also names a snake charmer's incantation meant to control a serpent, as in Ecclesiastes 10:11's "if the serpent bites before being charmed, there is no benefit for the charmer," tying the whispered formula to an attempt at controlling a creature.
Artifacts001003001001
The same word additionally denotes an amulet or charm worn as an object, as in Isaiah 3:20's list of ornaments including "amulets," placing it among crafted objects.
Word family 2 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

לָחַשׁ lâchash · H3907 · to whisper together, charmer · 3×לַחַשׁlachash · H3908
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3908. lachash לַ֫חַשׁ noun [masculine] a whispering, charming; — ׳ל Isa 26:16; לָ֑חַשׁ…
H3908. lachash
לַ֫חַשׁ noun [masculine] a whispering, charming; — ׳ל Isa 26:16; לָ֑חַשׁ Ecc 10:11; Isa 3:3; Jer 8:17; plural לְחָשִׁים Isa 3:20. —
1 serpent-charming Ecc 10:11; לָ֑חַשׁ נְבוֺן Isa 3:3 (probably more General).
2 charms, amulets, worn by women, Isa 3:20.
3 whisper of prayer, לַחַשׁ צָקוּן Isa 26:16 they pour forth a whisper of prayer (but Koppe Bö Gr Di Du read לַחַשׁ צְקוֺן 'Zauberzwang,' compulsion of (by) magic).

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 3 entries
Artifacts2 occurrencesControl2 occurrencesSpeak1 occurrence

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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