Word

לָכִישׁ

Lâkîysh · H3923 · Hebrew · proper noun · 24 occurrences

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Place

Lachishfirst named in Joshua 10:322 verses

Meanings

Lachish

Fortified town; located in the foothills; territory of Judah

Examples
Joshua 10:3 Therefore Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem sent word to Hoham king of Hebron, to Piram king of Jarmuth, to Japhia king of Lachish, and to Debir king of Eglon, saying,
Joshua 10:5 So the five kings of the Amorites, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon, gathered together and went up, they with all their armies, and camped by Gibeon and fought against it.
Joshua 10:23 They did so, and brought these five kings out to him from the cave: the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon.

How it’s used In 4 roles

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

the word studied the word it goes with

What is done to itIt is the object

2 occurrences in 2 groups

נָתַןto give, to put, to set 1
עָזַרto help 1

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

1 occurrences in 2 groups

הוּאhe, she, it 1
מֶמְשָׁלָהrule 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

8 occurrences in 4 groups

מִןfrom 8
לto/for 2
אֵלto, toward 1
עַלon, upon, over, against 1

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

5 occurrences in 2 groups

מֶלֶךְking 4
יָשַׁבto dwell, to live, to sit 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

Names of Locations003001010: Lachish names a major fortified Judean city frequently mentioned in the historical and prophetic books, as in Joshua 10:31's siege of Lachish and 2 Kings 18:14's Assyrian campaign against it, placing it among place names.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3923. Lachish לָכִישׁ proper name, of a location — so Jos 10:3 +; with ה locative…

H3923. Lachish
לָכִישׁ proper name, of a location — so Jos 10:3 +; with ה locative לֶכִ֫ישָׁה Jos 10:31 Jos 10:5t.; — Canaanitish (Amorite) city, with king, Jos 10:3, Jos 10:5, Jos 10:23 (all J E), Jos 10:31; Jos 12:11 (both D); (= Tel el-Amarna Lakiša, Lakisi WklTA Tablets, Nos. 217, 218, 180, 181); captured by Jos 10:32-33, Jos 10:34, Jos 10:35 (all D); reckoned to Judah Mic 1:13; Jer 34:7; Jos 15:39 (P), compare 2Ki 14:19 (twice in verse) = 2Ch 25:27 (twice in verse), 2Ch 11:9; Neh 11:30; base of Assyrian operations 2Ki 18:14, compare 2Ch 32:9, also 2Ki 18:17; 2Ki 19:8 = Isa 36:2; Isa 37:8 ( = Assyrian Lakisi SchrCOT 2Ki 18:13); probably = modern Tell el-Hesy, approximately 33 miles southwest from Jerusalem FJBMound of Many Cities, 1893 BuhlGeogr. § 103 GASmGeogr. 234; > Umm el-Lâkis vd VeldeMem. 320 GuérinJudeé; ii. 299 ff.; Um Lâkis opposed to by RobBR ii. 47. — ᵐ5 Λαχεις.
לָכֵן
see כֵּן. לֻלָאוֺת see [ לוּלַי] below לולו.

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Names of Locations22 occurrences

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