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Word Study · Strong's H3899 · Hebrew

לֶחֶם

lechem

lekh'-em

food (for man or beast), especially bread, or grain (for making it)

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

food (for man or beast), especially bread, or grain (for making it)

Rendered in the KJV as

(shew-) bread, [idiom] eat, food, fruit, loaf, meat, victuals.

  • 298
    occurrencesin the Old Testament
  • 30 of 39
    Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
  • 96
    inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 298 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 96

  • לֶ֣חֶם25
  • לָֽחֶם׃24
  • לֶ֖חֶם23
  • לֶ֔חֶם20
  • לֶ֥חֶם20
  • לֶ֙חֶם֙12
  • לֶ֤חֶם11
  • לָ֑חֶם11
  • לֶ֜חֶם8
  • הַלֶּ֖חֶם6
  • וְלֶ֥חֶם6
  • לֶ֛חֶם6

and 84 more spellings in the ledger below.

How it is rendered · 65

  • bread72
  • food70
  • bread of13
  • [the] food of12
  • the bread10
  • [the] bread of9
  • bread your6
  • bread[s]6
  • food his6
  • food my6
  • and bread5
  • food of5

The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 23

  • noun · masculine singular151
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)44
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular16
  • preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular11
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular10
  • noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine singular8
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular8
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)7
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular7
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural5
  • preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)5
  • noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine plural4
Show the grammar codes as tagged
  • HNcmsa · 151
  • HNcmsc · 44
  • HTd/Ncmsa · 16
  • HRd/Ncmsa · 11
  • HC/Ncmsa · 10
  • HNcbsc/Sp1ms · 8
  • HNcmsc/Sp3ms · 8
  • HC/Ncmsc · 7
  • HNcmsc/Sp2ms · 7
  • HNcmsc/Sp3mp · 5
  • HR/Ncmsc · 5
  • HNcbsc/Sp1mp · 4

All 298, in canonical order

The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

1 Samuel carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.

Genesis24 occurrences
Exodus21 occurrences
Leviticus24 occurrences
Numbers7 occurrences
Deuteronomy8 occurrences
Joshua2 occurrences
Judges7 occurrences
Ruth2 occurrences
1 Samuel27 occurrences
2 Samuel13 occurrences
1 Kings24 occurrences
2 Kings8 occurrences
1 Chronicles4 occurrences
2 Chronicles3 occurrences
Ezra1 occurrence
Nehemiah6 occurrences
Job11 occurrences
Psalms19 occurrences
Proverbs23 occurrences
Ecclesiastes4 occurrences
Isaiah16 occurrences
Jeremiah10 occurrences
Lamentations4 occurrences
Ezekiel20 occurrences
Daniel1 occurrence
Hosea3 occurrences
Amos3 occurrences
Obadiah1 occurrence
Haggai1 occurrence
Malachi1 occurrence
Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), CC BY 4.0 — their grammar codes written out in English here, and shown as tagged under each list. Dictionary: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).