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Hebrew noun (masculine) · H3895

לְחִי

lechilekh-ee'

Lehi

21 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: lᵉchîy

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3895is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 12 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 19
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H3895

the cheek (from its fleshiness); hence, the jaw-bone

The King James renders it: cheek (bone), jaw (bone).

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

lechi is rendered "Lehi". It stands 21 times in the Hebrew text, across twelve books.

  • Five of the uses stand in Judges, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Deuteronomy 18:3This shall be the priests’ share from the people who offer a sacrifice, whether a bull or a sheep: the priests are to be given the shoulder, the jowls, and the stomach.
  • The Greek text spells it nineteen different ways.

The first use

This shall be the priests’ share from the people who offer a sacrifice, whether a bull or a sheep: the priests are to be given the shoulder, the jowls, and the stomach.

Deuteronomy 18:3וְהַלְּחָיַ֖יִם

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

The word stands in twelve of the 39 Old Testament books.

The other 27 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • the cheek3
  • in jaws your2
  • with jawbone of2
  • a cheek1
  • a jawbone of1
  • and cheeks my1
  • and the two cheeks1
  • at the Lehi1
  • cheek her1
  • cheeks his1
  • cheeks my1
  • cheeks your1

and 5 more, 21 uses in all

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

All 21, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

19 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • בִּלְחִ֣י2
  • הַלֶּ֑חִי2
  • בַּלֶּ֗חִי1
  • בִּלְחָיֶ֔יךָ1
  • בִּלְחָיֶ֑יךָ1
  • הַלְּחִ֖י1
  • הַלְּחִ֔י1
  • וְהַלְּחָיַ֖יִם1
  • וּלְחָיַ֖י1
  • לֶ֑חִי1
  • לֶ֖חִי1
  • לְחִֽי־1

and 7 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular4HTd/Ncmsa
  • noun · masculine singular2HNcmsa
  • preposition + noun · masculine dual · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular2HR/Ncmdc/Sp2ms
  • preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)2HR/Ncmsc
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine dual · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1HC/Ncmdc/Sp1bs
  • conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine dual1HC/Td/Ncmda
  • noun · masculine dual · in construct (“…of”)1HNcmdc
  • noun · masculine dual · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1HNcmdc/Sp1bs
  • noun · masculine dual · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singular1HNcmdc/Sp2fs
  • noun · masculine dual · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural1HNcmdc/Sp3mp
  • noun · masculine dual · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HNcmdc/Sp3ms
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HNcmsc

Deuteronomy

one use
  • This shall be the priests’ share from the people who offer a sacrifice, whether a bull or a sheep: the priests are to be given the shoulder, the jowls, and the stomach.

    Deuteronomy 18:3

    • וְהַלְּחָיַ֖יִםvehalechayayimconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine dualtagged: and the two cheeks

Judges

five uses
  • He found the fresh jawbone of a donkey, reached out his hand and took it, and struck down a thousand men.

    Judges 15:15

    • לְחִֽי־lechi-noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: a jawbone of
  • Then Samson said: “With the jawbone of a donkey I have piled them into heaps. With the jawbone of a donkey I have slain a thousand men.”

    Judges 15:16

    • בִּלְחִ֣יbilchipreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: with jawbone of
    • בִּלְחִ֣יbilchipreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: with jawbone of
  • And when Samson had finished speaking, he cast the jawbone from his hand; and he named that place Ramath-lehi.

    Judges 15:17

    • הַלְּחִ֖יhalechithe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the jawbone
  • So God opened up the hollow place in Lehi, and water came out of it. When Samson drank, his strength returned, and he was revived. That is why he named it En-hakkore, and it remains in Lehi to this day.

    Judges 15:19

    • בַּלֶּ֗חִיbalechipreposition with the article + proper noun (a name)tagged: at the Lehi

1 Kings

one use
  • Then Zedekiah son of Chenaanah went up, struck Micaiah in the face, and demanded, “Which way did the Spirit of the LORD go when He departed from me to speak with you?”

    1 Kings 22:24

    • הַלֶּ֑חִיhalechithe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the cheek

2 Chronicles

one use
  • Then Zedekiah son of Chenaanah went up, struck Micaiah in the face, and demanded, “Which way did the Spirit of the LORD go when He departed from me to speak with you?”

    2 Chronicles 18:23

    • הַלֶּ֑חִיhalechithe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the cheek

Job

two uses
  • They open their mouths against me and strike my cheeks with contempt; they join together against me.

    Job 16:10

    • לְחָיָ֑יlechayainoun · masculine dual · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: cheeks my
  • Can you put a cord through his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook?

    Job 41:2

    • לֶֽחֱיוֹ׃lecheyonoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: jaw its

Psalms

one use
  • Arise, O LORD! Save me, O my God! Strike all my enemies on the jaw; break the teeth of the wicked.

    Psalms 3:7

    • לֶ֑חִיlechinoun · masculine singulartagged: jaw

Song of Solomon

two uses
  • Your cheeks are beautiful with ornaments, your neck with strings of jewels.

    Song of Solomon 1:10

    • לְחָיַ֙יִךְ֙lechayayikhnoun · masculine dual · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: cheeks your
  • His cheeks are like beds of spice, towers of perfume. His lips are like lilies, dripping with flowing myrrh.

    Song of Solomon 5:13

    • לְחָיָו֙lechayavnoun · masculine dual · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: cheeks his

Isaiah

two uses
  • His breath is like a rushing torrent that rises to the neck. He comes to sift the nations in a sieve of destruction; He bridles the jaws of the peoples to lead them astray.

    Isaiah 30:28

    • לְחָיֵ֥יlechayeinoun · masculine dual · in construct (“…of”)tagged: jaws of
  • I offered My back to those who struck Me, and My cheeks to those who tore out My beard. I did not hide My face from scorn and spittle.

    Isaiah 50:6

    • וּלְחָיַ֖יulechayaiconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine dual · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: and cheeks my

Lamentations

two uses
  • She weeps aloud in the night, with tears upon her cheeks. Among all her lovers there is no one to comfort her. All her friends have betrayed her; they have become her enemies.

    Lamentations 1:2

    • לֶֽחֱיָ֔הּlecheyahnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: cheek her
  • Let him offer his cheek to the one who would strike him; let him be filled with reproach.

    Lamentations 3:30

    • לֶ֖חִיlechinoun · masculine singulartagged: a cheek

Ezekiel

two uses
  • But I will put hooks in your jaws and cause the fish of your streams to cling to your scales. I will haul you up out of your rivers, and all the fish of your streams will cling to your scales.

    Ezekiel 29:4

    • בִּלְחָיֶ֔יךָbilchayeikhapreposition + noun · masculine dual · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: in jaws your
  • I will turn you around, put hooks in your jaws, and bring you out with all your army—your horses, your horsemen in full armor, and a great company armed with shields and bucklers, all brandishing their swords.

    Ezekiel 38:4

    • בִּלְחָיֶ֑יךָbilchayeikhapreposition + noun · masculine dual · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: in jaws your

Hosea

one use
  • I led them with cords of kindness, with ropes of love; I lifted the yoke from their necks and bent down to feed them.

    Hosea 11:4

    • לְחֵיהֶ֑םlecheihemnoun · masculine dual · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: jaws their

Micah

one use
  • Now, O daughter of troops, mobilize your troops; for a siege is laid against us! With a rod they will strike the cheek of the judge of Israel.

    Micah 5:1

    • הַלְּחִ֔יhalechithe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the cheek

The letters

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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