Hebrew verb · H3897
לָחַךְ
lachaklaw-khak'
to lick
6 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: lâchak
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3897is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 39Old Testament books
- 5spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H3897
to lick
The King James renders it: lick (up).
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
lachak is rendered "to lick". It stands 6 times in the Hebrew text, across five books.
- Two of the uses stand in Numbers, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Numbers 22:4So the Moabites said to the elders of Midian, “This horde will devour everything around us, as an ox licks up the grass of the field.” Since Balak son of Zippor was king of Moab at that time,
- The Greek text spells it five different ways.
The first use
So the Moabites said to the elders of Midian, “This horde will devour everything around us, as an ox licks up the grass of the field.” Since Balak son of Zippor was king of Moab at that time,
Numbers 22:4יְלַחֲכ֤וּ
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- they will lick up4
- as licks up1
- it licked up1
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 6, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
5 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
- יְלַחֲכ֤וּ2
- יְלַחֵ֑כוּ1
- יְלַחֵֽכוּ׃1
- כִּלְחֹ֣ךְ1
- לִחֵֽכָה׃1
The grammar of each form
- verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural4HVpi3mp
- preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)1HR/Vqcc
- verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singular1HVpp3fs
Numbers
two uses
So the Moabites said to the elders of Midian, “This horde will devour everything around us, as an ox licks up the grass of the field.” Since Balak son of Zippor was king of Moab at that time,
- יְלַחֲכ֤וּyelachakhuverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will lick up
- כִּלְחֹ֣ךְkilchokhpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: as licks up
1 Kings
one use
Then the fire of the LORD fell and consumed the sacrifice, the wood, the stones, and the dust, and it licked up the water in the trench.
- לִחֵֽכָה׃lichekhahverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it licked up
Psalms
one use
May the nomads bow before him, and his enemies lick the dust.
- יְלַחֵֽכוּ׃yelachekhuverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will lick up
Isaiah
one use
Kings will be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. They will bow to you facedown and lick the dust at your feet. Then you will know that I am the LORD; those who hope in Me will never be put to shame.”
- יְלַחֵ֑כוּyelachekhuverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will lick up
Micah
one use
They will lick the dust like a snake, like reptiles slithering on the ground. They will crawl from their holes in the presence of the LORD our God; they will tremble in fear of You.
- יְלַחֲכ֤וּyelachakhuverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will lick up
The letters
Gematria 58· 538 mispar gadol
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 family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.