Hebrew noun (masculine) · H3899
לֶחֶם
lechemlekh'-em
food
298 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3899is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 30 of 39Old Testament books
- 96spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H3899
food (for man or beast), especially bread, or grain (for making it)
The King James renders it: (shew-) bread, [idiom] eat, food, fruit, loaf, meat, victuals.
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
lechem is rendered "food". It stands 298 times in the Hebrew text, across thirty books.
- Twenty-seven of the uses stand in 1 Samuel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 3:19By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground—because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”
- The Greek text spells it ninety-six different ways.
The first use
By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground—because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”
Genesis 3:19לֶ֔חֶם
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
The word stands in thirty of the 39 Old Testament books.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- bread78
- food73
- bread of25
- food of18
- the bread11
- food his7
- bread your6
- food my6
- and bread5
- and bread of5
- and food5
- the food5
and 38 more, 298 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.
The words it stands beside
All 298, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
96 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
- לֶ֣חֶם25
- לָֽחֶם׃24
- לֶ֖חֶם23
- לֶ֔חֶם20
- לֶ֥חֶם20
- לֶ֙חֶם֙12
- לֶ֤חֶם11
- לָ֑חֶם11
- לֶ֜חֶם8
- הַלֶּ֖חֶם6
- וְלֶ֥חֶם6
- לֶ֛חֶם6
and 84 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular151HNcmsa
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)44HNcmsc
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular16HTd/Ncmsa
- preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular11HRd/Ncmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular10HC/Ncmsa
- noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine singular8HNcbsc/Sp1ms
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular8HNcmsc/Sp3ms
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)7HC/Ncmsc
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular7HNcmsc/Sp2ms
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural5HNcmsc/Sp3mp
- preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)5HR/Ncmsc
- noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine plural4HNcbsc/Sp1mp
Genesis
twenty-four uses
By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground—because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”
- לֶ֔חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: food
Then Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine—since he was priest of God Most High—
- לֶ֣חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: bread
And I will bring a bit of bread so that you may refresh yourselves. This is why you have passed your servant’s way. After that, you may continue on your way.” “Yes,” they replied, “you may do as you have said.”
- לֶ֜חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: bread
Early in the morning, Abraham got up, took bread and a skin of water, put them on Hagar’s shoulders, and sent her away with the boy. She left and wandered in the Wilderness of Beersheba.
- לֶחֶם֩lechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: food
Then Jacob gave some bread and lentil stew to Esau, who ate and drank and then got up and went away. Thus Esau despised his birthright.
- לֶ֚חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: bread
Then she handed her son Jacob the tasty food and bread she had made.
- הַלֶּ֖חֶםhalechemthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the bread
Then Jacob made a vow, saying, “If God will be with me and watch over me on this journey, and if He will provide me with food to eat and clothes to wear,
- לֶ֛חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: food
Then Jacob offered a sacrifice on the mountain and invited his relatives to eat a meal. And after they had eaten, they spent the night on the mountain.
- לָ֑חֶםlachemnoun · masculine singulartagged: food
- לֶ֔חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: food
And as they sat down to eat a meal, they looked up and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead. Their camels were carrying spices, balm, and myrrh on their way down to Egypt.
- לֶחֶם֒lechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: bread
So Potiphar left all that he owned in Joseph’s care; he did not concern himself with anything except the food he ate. Now Joseph was well-built and handsome,
- הַלֶּ֖חֶםhalechemthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the food
the seven years of famine began, just as Joseph had said. And although there was famine in every country, there was food throughout the land of Egypt.
- לָֽחֶם׃lachemnoun · masculine singulartagged: food
When extreme hunger came to all the land of Egypt and the people cried out to Pharaoh for food, he told all the Egyptians, “Go to Joseph and do whatever he tells you.”
- לַלָּ֑חֶםlalachempreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: for the food
Since the brothers had been told that they were going to eat a meal there, they prepared their gift for Joseph’s arrival at noon.
- לָֽחֶם׃lachemnoun · masculine singulartagged: food
Then he washed his face and came back out. Regaining his composure, he said, “Serve the meal.”
- לָֽחֶם׃lachemnoun · masculine singulartagged: food
They separately served Joseph, his brothers, and the Egyptians. They ate separately because the Egyptians would not eat with the Hebrews, since that was detestable to them.
- לֶ֔חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: food
And he sent to his father the following: ten donkeys loaded with the best of Egypt, and ten female donkeys loaded with grain and bread and provisions for his father’s journey.
- וָלֶ֧חֶםvalechemconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and food
Joseph also provided his father and brothers and all his father’s household with food for their families.
- לֶ֖חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: food
There was no food, however, in all that region, because the famine was so severe; the lands of Egypt and Canaan had been exhausted by the famine.
- וְלֶ֤חֶםvelechemconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and food
When the money from the lands of Egypt and Canaan was gone, all the Egyptians came to Joseph and said, “Give us food. Why should we die before your eyes? For our funds have run out!”
- לֶ֔חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: food
So they brought their livestock to Joseph, and he gave them food in exchange for their horses, their flocks and herds, and their donkeys. Throughout that year he provided them with food in exchange for all their livestock.
- לֶ֜חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: food
- בַּלֶּ֙חֶם֙balechempreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: with the food
Why should we perish before your eyes—we and our land as well? Purchase us and our land in exchange for food. Then we, along with our land, will be slaves to Pharaoh. Give us seed that we may live and not die, and that the land may not become desolate.”
- בַּלָּ֑חֶםbalachempreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: for the food
Asher’s food will be rich; he shall provide royal delicacies.
- לַחְמ֑וֹlachmonoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: food his
Exodus
twenty-one uses
“So where is he?” their father asked. “Why did you leave the man behind? Invite him to have something to eat.”
- לָֽחֶם׃lachemnoun · masculine singulartagged: food
“If only we had died by the LORD’s hand in the land of Egypt!” they said. “There we sat by pots of meat and ate our fill of bread, but you have brought us into this desert to starve this whole assembly to death!”
- לֶ֖חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: food
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Behold, I will rain down bread from heaven for you. Each day the people are to go out and gather enough for that day. In this way I will test whether or not they will follow My instructions.
- לֶ֖חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: bread
And Moses added, “The LORD will give you meat to eat this evening and bread to fill you in the morning, for He has heard your grumbling against Him. Who are we? Your grumblings are not against us but against the LORD.”
- וְלֶ֤חֶםvelechemconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and bread
“I have heard the grumbling of the Israelites. Tell them, ‘At twilight you will eat meat, and in the morning you will be filled with bread. Then you will know that I am the LORD your God.’”
- לָ֑חֶםlachemnoun · masculine singulartagged: bread
When the Israelites saw it, they asked one another, “What is it?” For they did not know what it was. So Moses told them, “It is the bread that the LORD has given you to eat.
- הַלֶּ֔חֶםhalechemthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the bread
On the sixth day, they gathered twice as much food—two omers per person—and all the leaders of the congregation came and reported this to Moses.
- לֶ֙חֶם֙lechemnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: bread of
Understand that the LORD has given you the Sabbath; that is why on the sixth day He will give you bread for two days. On the seventh day, everyone must stay where he is; no one may leave his place.”
- לֶ֣חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: bread of
Moses said, “This is what the LORD has commanded: ‘Keep an omer of manna for the generations to come, so that they may see the bread I fed you in the wilderness when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.’”
- הַלֶּ֗חֶםhalechemthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the bread
Then Moses’ father-in-law Jethro brought a burnt offering and sacrifices to God, and Aaron came with all the elders of Israel to eat bread with Moses’ father-in-law in the presence of God.
- לֶ֛חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: food
So you shall serve the LORD your God, and He will bless your bread and your water. And I will take away sickness from among you.
- לַחְמְךָ֖lachmekhanoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: food your
And place the Bread of the Presence on the table before Me at all times.
- לֶ֥חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: bread of
along with unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil. Make them out of fine wheat flour,
- וְלֶ֣חֶםvelechemconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and bread of
along with one loaf of bread, one cake of bread made with oil, and one wafer from the basket of unleavened bread that is before the LORD.
- לֶ֜חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: bread
- לֶ֥חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: bread of
At the entrance to the Tent of Meeting, Aaron and his sons are to eat the meat of the ram and the bread that is in the basket.
- הַלֶּ֖חֶםhalechemthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the bread
And if any of the meat of ordination or any bread is left until the morning, you are to burn up the remainder. It must not be eaten, because it is sacred.
- הַלֶּ֖חֶםhalechemthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the bread
So Moses was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights without eating bread or drinking water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant—the Ten Commandments.
- לֶ֚חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: food
the table with its poles, all its utensils, and the Bread of the Presence;
- לֶ֥חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: bread of
the table with all its utensils and the Bread of the Presence;
- לֶ֥חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: bread of
He arranged the bread on it before the LORD, just as the LORD had commanded him.
- לֶ֖חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: bread
Leviticus
twenty-four uses
Then the priest is to burn them on the altar as food, an offering made by fire to the LORD.
- לֶ֥חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: food of
Then the priest is to burn the food on the altar as an offering made by fire, a pleasing aroma. All the fat is the LORD’s.
- לֶ֤חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: food of
Along with his peace offering of thanksgiving he is to present an offering with cakes of leavened bread.
- לֶ֣חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: bread of
And from the basket of unleavened bread that was before the LORD, he took one cake of unleavened bread, one cake of bread made with oil, and one wafer, and he placed them on the fat portions and on the right thigh.
- לֶ֥חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: bread of
And Moses said to Aaron and his sons, “Boil the meat at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting and eat it there with the bread that is in the basket of ordination offerings, as I commanded, saying, ‘Aaron and his sons are to eat it.’
- הַלֶּ֔חֶםhalechemthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the bread
Then you must burn up the remainder of the meat and bread.
- וּבַלָּ֑חֶםuvalachemconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: and in the bread
They must be holy to their God and not profane the name of their God. Because they present to the LORD the offerings made by fire, the food of their God, they must be holy.
- לֶ֧חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: food of
You are to regard him as holy, since he presents the food of your God. He shall be holy to you, because I the LORD am holy—I who set you apart.
- לֶ֥חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: food of
“Say to Aaron, ‘For the generations to come, none of your descendants who has a physical defect may approach to offer the food of his God.
- לֶ֥חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: food of
No descendant of Aaron the priest who has a defect shall approach to present the offerings made by fire to the LORD. Since he has a defect, he is not to come near to offer the food of his God.
- לֶ֣חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: food of
He may eat the most holy food of his God as well as the holy food,
- לֶ֣חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: food of
When the sun has set, he will become clean, and then he may eat from the sacred offerings, for they are his food.
- לַחְמ֖וֹlachmonoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: food his
But if a priest buys a slave with his own money, or if a slave is born in his household, that slave may eat his food.
- בְלַחְמֽוֹ׃velachmopreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: in food his
But if a priest’s daughter with no children becomes widowed or divorced and returns to her father’s house, she may share her father’s food as in her youth. But no outsider may share it.
- מִלֶּ֥חֶםmilechempreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: any of food of
Neither you nor a foreigner shall present food to your God from any such animal. They will not be accepted on your behalf, because they are deformed and flawed.’”
- לֶ֥חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: food of
You must not eat any bread or roasted or new grain until the very day you have brought this offering to your God. This is to be a permanent statute for the generations to come, wherever you live.
- וְלֶחֶם֩velechemconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and bread
Bring two loaves of bread from your dwellings as a wave offering, each made from two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour, baked with leaven, as the firstfruits to the LORD.
- לֶ֣חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: bread of
Along with the bread you are to present seven unblemished male lambs a year old, one young bull, and two rams. They will be a burnt offering to the LORD, together with their grain offerings and drink offerings—an offering made by fire, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.
- הַלֶּ֗חֶםhalechemthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the bread
The priest is to wave the lambs as a wave offering before the LORD, together with the bread of the firstfruits. The bread and the two lambs shall be holy to the LORD for the priest.
- לֶ֨חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: bread of
And you are to place pure frankincense near each row, so that it may serve as a memorial portion for the bread, an offering made by fire to the LORD.
- לַלֶּ֙חֶם֙lalechempreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: to the bread
Your threshing will continue until the grape harvest, and the grape harvest will continue until sowing time; you will have your fill of food to eat and will dwell securely in your land.
- לַחְמְכֶם֙lachmekhemnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: bread your
When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in a single oven and dole out your bread by weight, so that you will eat but not be satisfied.
- לֶחֶם֒lechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: bread
- לַחְמְכֶם֙lachmekhemnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: bread your
- לַחְמְכֶ֖םlachmekhemnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: bread your
Numbers
seven uses
Over the table of the Presence they are to spread a blue cloth and place the plates and cups on it, along with the bowls and pitchers for the drink offering. The regular bread offering is to remain on it.
- וְלֶ֥חֶםvelechemconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and bread of
Only do not rebel against the LORD, and do not be afraid of the people of the land, for they will be like bread for us. Their protection has been removed, and the LORD is with us. Do not be afraid of them!”
- לַחְמֵ֖נוּlachmenunoun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine pluraltagged: bread our
and you eat the food of the land, you shall lift up an offering to the LORD.
- מִלֶּ֣חֶםmilechempreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: from food of
and spoke against God and against Moses: “Why have you led us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? There is no bread or water, and we detest this wretched food!”
- לֶ֙חֶם֙lechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: food
- בַּלֶּ֖חֶםbalechempreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the food
“Command the Israelites and say to them: See that you present to Me at its appointed time the food for My offerings by fire, as a pleasing aroma to Me.
- לַחְמִ֜יlachminoun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine singulartagged: food my
Offer the same food each day for seven days as an offering made by fire, a pleasing aroma to the LORD. It is to be offered with its drink offering and the regular burnt offering.
- לֶ֛חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: food of
Deuteronomy
eight uses
He humbled you, and in your hunger He gave you manna to eat, which neither you nor your fathers had known, so that you might understand that man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD.
- הַלֶּ֤חֶםhalechemthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the bread
a land where you will eat food without scarcity, where you will lack nothing; a land whose rocks are iron and whose hills are ready to be mined for copper.
- לֶ֔חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: food
When I went up on the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that the LORD made with you, I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I ate no bread and drank no water.
- לֶ֚חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: food
Then I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, as I had done the first time. I did not eat bread or drink water because of all the sin you had committed in doing what was evil in the sight of the LORD and provoking Him to anger.
- לֶ֚חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: food
He executes justice for the fatherless and widow, and He loves the foreigner, giving him food and clothing.
- לֶ֥חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: food
You must not eat leavened bread with it; for seven days you are to eat with it unleavened bread, the bread of affliction, because you left the land of Egypt in haste—so that you may remember for the rest of your life the day you left the land of Egypt.
- לֶ֣חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: bread of
For they did not meet you with food and water on your way out of Egypt, and they hired Balaam son of Beor from Pethor in Aram-naharaim to curse you.
- בַּלֶּ֣חֶםbalechempreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: with the food
You ate no bread and drank no wine or strong drink, so that you might know that I am the LORD your God.
- לֶ֚חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: bread
Joshua
two uses
They put worn, patched sandals on their feet and threadbare clothing on their bodies, and their whole supply of bread was dry and moldy.
- לֶ֣חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: bread of
This bread of ours was warm when we packed it at home on the day we left to come to you. But take a look, it is now dry and moldy.
- לַחְמֵ֗נוּlachmenunoun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine pluraltagged: bread our
Judges
seven uses
And as Gideon arrived, a man was telling his friend about a dream. “Behold, I had a dream,” he said, “and I saw a loaf of barley bread come tumbling into the Midianite camp. It struck the tent so hard that the tent overturned and collapsed.”
- לֶ֤חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: bread of
So Gideon said to the men of Succoth, “Please give my troops some bread, for they are exhausted, and I am still pursuing Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian.”
- לֶ֔חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: bread
But the leaders of Succoth asked, “Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna already in your possession, that we should give bread to your army?”
- לָֽחֶם׃lachemnoun · masculine singulartagged: bread
And Gideon went to the men of Succoth and said, “Here are Zebah and Zalmunna, about whom you taunted me, saying, ‘Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna already in your possession, that we should give bread to your weary men?’”
- לָֽחֶם׃lachemnoun · masculine singulartagged: bread
And the angel of the LORD replied, “Even if I stay, I will not eat your food. But if you prepare a burnt offering, offer it to the LORD.” For Manoah did not know that it was the angel of the LORD.
- בְּלַחְמֶ֔ךָbelachmekhapreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: in food your
On the fourth day, they got up early in the morning and prepared to depart, but the girl’s father said to his son-in-law, “Refresh your heart with a morsel of bread, and then you can go.”
- לֶ֖חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: bread
even though there is both straw and feed for our donkeys, and bread and wine for me and the maidservant and young man with me. There is nothing that we, your servants, lack.”
- לֶ֣חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: food
Ruth
two uses
When Naomi heard in Moab that the LORD had attended to His people by providing them with food, she and her daughters-in-law prepared to leave the land of Moab.
- לָֽחֶם׃lachemnoun · masculine singulartagged: food
At mealtime Boaz said to her, “Come over here; have some bread and dip it into the vinegar sauce.” So she sat down beside the harvesters, and he offered her roasted grain, and she ate and was satisfied and had some left over.
- הַלֶּ֔חֶםhalechemthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the food
1 Samuel
twenty-seven uses
The well-fed hire themselves out for food, but the starving hunger no more. The barren woman gives birth to seven, but she who has many sons pines away.
- בַּלֶּ֙חֶם֙balechempreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: for the food
And everyone left in your house will come and bow down to him for a piece of silver or a morsel of bread, pleading, “Please appoint me to some priestly office so that I can eat a piece of bread.”’”
- לָ֑חֶםlachemnoun · masculine singulartagged: bread
- לָֽחֶם׃ סlachemnoun · masculine singulartagged: bread
“If we do go,” Saul replied, “what can we give the man? For the bread in our packs is gone, and there is no gift to take to the man of God. What do we have?”
- הַלֶּ֙חֶם֙halechemthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the bread
Then you will go on from there until you come to the Oak of Tabor. Three men going up to God at Bethel will meet you there, one carrying three young goats, another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a skin of wine.
- לֶ֔חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: bread
They will greet you and give you two loaves of bread, which you will accept from their hands.
- לֶ֔חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: bread
Now the men of Israel were in distress that day, for Saul had placed the troops under an oath, saying, “Cursed is the man who eats any food before evening, before I have taken vengeance on my enemies.” So none of the troops tasted any food.
- לֶ֜חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: food
- לָֽחֶם׃ סlachemnoun · masculine singulartagged: food
Then one of the soldiers told him, “Your father bound the troops with a solemn oath, saying, ‘Cursed is the man who eats food today.’ That is why the people are faint.”
- לֶ֖חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: food
And Jesse took a donkey loaded with bread, a skin of wine, and one young goat, and sent them to Saul with his son David.
- לֶ֙חֶם֙lechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: bread
One day Jesse said to his son David, “Take this ephah of roasted grain and these ten loaves of bread for your brothers and hurry to their camp.
- לֶ֖חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: bread
So David hid in the field, and when the New Moon had come, the king sat down to eat.
- הַלֶּ֖חֶםhalechemthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the food
But on the day after the New Moon, the second day, David’s place was still empty, and Saul asked his son Jonathan, “Why hasn’t the son of Jesse come to the meal either yesterday or today?”
- הַלָּֽחֶם׃halachemthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the food
Jonathan got up from the table in fierce anger and did not eat any food that second day of the month, for he was grieved by his father’s shameful treatment of David.
- לֶ֔חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: food
Now then, what do you have on hand? Give me five loaves of bread, or whatever can be found.”
- לֶ֖חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: bread
“There is no common bread on hand,” the priest replied, “but there is some consecrated bread—provided that the young men have kept themselves from women.”
- לֶ֥חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: bread of
- לֶ֤חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: bread of
So the priest gave him the consecrated bread, since there was no bread there but the Bread of the Presence, which had been removed from before the LORD and replaced with hot bread on the day it was taken away.
- לֶ֗חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: bread
- לֶ֤חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: bread of
- לֶ֣חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: bread of
And Saul asked him, “Why have you and the son of Jesse conspired against me? You gave him bread and a sword and inquired of God for him so that he could rise up against me to lie in wait, as he is doing today.”
- לֶ֣חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: bread
Why should I take my bread and water and the meat I have slaughtered for my shearers, and give them to these men whose origin I do not know?”
- לַחְמִי֙lachminoun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine singulartagged: bread my
Then Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five butchered sheep, five seahs of roasted grain, a hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs. She loaded them on donkeys
- לֶ֜חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: bread
Immediately Saul fell flat on the ground, terrified by the words of Samuel. And his strength was gone, because he had not eaten anything all that day and night.
- לֶ֔חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: food
Now please listen to your servant and let me set a morsel of bread before you so you may eat and have the strength to go on your way.”
- לֶ֖חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: bread
Now his men found an Egyptian in the field and brought him to David. They gave the man water to drink and food to eat—
- לֶ֙חֶם֙lechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: bread
a piece of a fig cake and two clusters of raisins. So he ate and was revived, for he had not had any food or water for three days and three nights.
- לֶ֙חֶם֙lechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: food
2 Samuel
thirteen uses
May it whirl over the heads of Joab and the entire house of his father, and may the house of Joab never be without one having a discharge or skin disease, or one who leans on a staff or falls by the sword or lacks food.”
- לָֽחֶם׃lachemnoun · masculine singulartagged: bread
Then all the people came and urged David to eat something while it was still day, but David took an oath, saying, “May God punish me, and ever so severely, if I taste bread or anything else before the sun sets!”
- לֶ֖חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: bread
- לֶ֖חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: bread
Then he distributed to every man and woman among the multitude of Israel a loaf of bread, a date cake, and a raisin cake. And all the people departed, each for his own home.
- לֶ֙חֶם֙lechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: bread
“Do not be afraid,” said David, “for surely I will show you kindness for the sake of your father Jonathan. I will restore to you all the land of your grandfather Saul, and you will always eat at my table.”
- לֶ֛חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: food
You and your sons and servants are to work the ground for him and bring in the harvest, so that your master’s grandson may have food to eat. But Mephibosheth, your master’s grandson, is always to eat at my table.” Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.
- לֶּ֙חֶם֙lechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: food
- לֶ֖חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: food
The elders of his household stood beside him to help him up from the ground, but he was unwilling and would not eat anything with them.
- לָֽחֶם׃lachemnoun · masculine singulartagged: food
Then David got up from the ground, washed and anointed himself, changed his clothes, and went into the house of the LORD and worshiped. Then he went to his own house, and at his request they set food before him, and he ate.
- לֶ֖חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: food
“What is this you have done?” his servants asked. “While the child was alive, you fasted and wept, but when he died, you got up and ate.”
- לָֽחֶם׃lachemnoun · masculine singulartagged: food
Jonadab told him, “Lie down on your bed and pretend you are ill. When your father comes to see you, say to him, ‘Please let my sister Tamar come and give me something to eat. Let her prepare it in my sight so I may watch her and eat it from her hand.’”
- לֶ֗חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: food
When David had gone a little beyond the summit, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth was there to meet him. He had a pair of saddled donkeys loaded with two hundred loaves of bread, a hundred clusters of raisins, a hundred summer fruits, and a skin of wine.
- לֶ֜חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: bread
“Why do you have these?” asked the king. Ziba replied, “The donkeys are for the king’s household to ride, the bread and summer fruit are for the young men to eat, and the wine is to refresh those who become exhausted in the wilderness.”
- וְהַלֶּ֤חֶםuhalechemconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and the bread
1 Kings
twenty-four uses
Solomon’s provisions for a single day were thirty cors of fine flour, sixty cors of meal,
- לֶֽחֶם־lechem-noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: food of
My servants will haul the logs from Lebanon to the Sea, and I will float them as rafts by sea to the place you specify. There I will separate the logs, and you can take them away. And in exchange, you can meet my needs by providing my household with food.”
- לֶ֥חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: food of
Solomon also made all the furnishings for the house of the LORD: the golden altar; the golden table on which was placed the Bread of the Presence;
- לֶ֥חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: bread of
Hadad and his men set out from Midian and went to Paran. They took men from Paran with them and went to Egypt, to Pharaoh king of Egypt, who gave Hadad a house and land and provided him with food.
- וְלֶ֙חֶם֙velechemconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and food
But the man of God replied, “If you were to give me half your possessions, I still would not go with you, nor would I eat bread or drink water in this place.
- לֶ֙חֶם֙lechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: bread
For this is what I was commanded by the word of the LORD: ‘You must not eat bread or drink water or return by the way you came.’”
- לֶ֖חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: bread
So the prophet said to the man of God, “Come home with me and eat some bread.”
- לָֽחֶם׃lachemnoun · masculine singulartagged: bread
But the man replied, “I cannot return with you or eat bread or drink water with you in this place.
- לֶ֗חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: bread
For I have been told by the word of the LORD: ‘You must not eat bread or drink water there or return by the way you came.’”
- לֶ֔חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: bread
Then the prophet replied, “I too am a prophet like you, and an angel spoke to me by the word of the LORD, saying, ‘Bring him back with you to your house, so that he may eat bread and drink water.’” The old prophet was lying to him,
- לֶ֖חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: bread
but the man of God went back with him, ate bread in his house, and drank water.
- לֶ֛חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: bread
but you went back and ate bread and drank water in the place where He told you not to do so, your body shall never reach the tomb of your fathers.’”
- לֶ֙חֶם֙lechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: bread
- לֶ֖חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: bread
And after the man of God had finished eating and drinking, the old prophet who had brought him back saddled the donkey for him.
- לֶ֖חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: bread
Take with you ten loaves of bread, some cakes, and a jar of honey, and go to him. He will tell you what will become of the boy.”
- לֶ֧חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: bread
The ravens would bring him bread and meat in the morning and evening, and he would drink from the brook.
- לֶ֤חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: bread
- וְלֶ֥חֶםvelechemconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and bread
And as she was going to get it, he called to her and said, “Please bring me a piece of bread.”
- לֶ֖חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: bread
for when Jezebel had slaughtered the prophets of the LORD, Obadiah had taken a hundred prophets and hidden them, fifty men per cave, providing them with food and water.)
- לֶ֥חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: food
Was it not reported to my lord what I did when Jezebel slaughtered the prophets of the LORD? I hid a hundred prophets of the LORD, fifty men per cave, and I provided them with food and water.
- לֶ֥חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: food
So Ahab went to his palace, sullen and angry because Naboth the Jezreelite had told him, “I will not give you the inheritance of my fathers.” He lay down on his bed, turned his face away, and refused to eat.
- לָֽחֶם׃lachemnoun · masculine singulartagged: food
Soon his wife Jezebel came in and asked, “Why are you so sullen that you refuse to eat?”
- לָֽחֶם׃lachemnoun · masculine singulartagged: food
But his wife Jezebel said to him, “Do you not reign over Israel? Get up, eat some food, and be cheerful, for I will get you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.”
- לֶ֙חֶם֙lechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: food
and tell them that this is what the king says: ‘Put this man in prison and feed him only bread and water until I return safely.’”
- לֶ֤חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: bread
2 Kings
eight uses
One day Elisha went to Shunem, and a prominent woman who lived there persuaded him to have a meal. So whenever he would pass by, he would stop there to eat.
- לָ֑חֶםlachemnoun · masculine singulartagged: food
- לָֽחֶם׃lachemnoun · masculine singulartagged: food
Now a man from Baal-shalishah came to the man of God with a sack of twenty loaves of barley bread from the first ripe grain. “Give it to the people to eat,” said Elisha.
- לֶ֤חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: bread of
- לֶ֣חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: bread of
“Do not kill them,” he replied. “Would you kill those you have captured with your own sword or bow? Set food and water before them, that they may eat and drink and then return to their master.”
- לֶ֨חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: food
until I come and take you away to a land like your own—a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and honey—so that you may live and not die. But do not listen to Hezekiah, for he misleads you when he says, ‘The LORD will deliver us.’
- לֶ֣חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: bread
By the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine in the city was so severe that the people of the land had no food.
- לֶ֖חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: food
So Jehoiachin changed out of his prison clothes, and he dined regularly at the king’s table for the rest of his life.
- לֶ֧חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: bread
1 Chronicles
four uses
Some of their Kohathite brothers were responsible for preparing the rows of the showbread every Sabbath.
- לֶ֣חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: bread of
And their neighbors from as far away as Issachar, Zebulun, and Naphtali came bringing food on donkeys, camels, mules, and oxen—abundant supplies of flour, fig cakes and raisin cakes, wine and oil, oxen and sheep. Indeed, there was joy in Israel.
- לֶ֡חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: food
Then he distributed to every man and woman of Israel a loaf of bread, a date cake, and a raisin cake.
- לֶ֔חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: bread
as well as for the rows of the showbread, the fine flour for the grain offering, the wafers of unleavened bread, the baking, the mixing, and all measurements of quantity and size.
- וּלְלֶ֨חֶםulelechemconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and to bread of
2 Chronicles
three uses
Solomon also made all the furnishings for the house of God: the golden altar; the tables on which was placed the Bread of the Presence;
- לֶ֥חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: bread of
Every morning and every evening they present burnt offerings and fragrant incense to the LORD. They set out the rows of showbread on the ceremonially clean table, and every evening they light the lamps of the gold lampstand. We are carrying out the requirements of the LORD our God, while you have forsaken Him.
- לֶ֜חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: bread
and tell them that this is what the king says: ‘Put this man in prison and feed him only bread and water until I return safely.’”
- לֶ֤חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: bread
Ezra
one use
Then Ezra withdrew from before the house of God and walked to the chamber of Jehohanan son of Eliashib. And while he stayed there, he ate no food and drank no water, because he was mourning over the unfaithfulness of the exiles.
- לֶ֤חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: food
Nehemiah
six uses
Furthermore, from the day King Artaxerxes appointed me to be their governor in the land of Judah, from his twentieth year until his thirty-second year (twelve years total), neither I nor my brothers ate the food allotted to the governor.
- לֶ֥חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: food of
The governors before me had heavily burdened the people, taking from them bread and wine plus forty shekels of silver. Their servants also oppressed the people, but I did not do this because of my fear of God.
- בְּלֶ֤חֶםbelechempreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: in food
Each day one ox, six choice sheep, and some fowl were prepared for me, and once every ten days an abundance of all kinds of wine was provided. But I did not demand the food allotted to the governor, because the burden on the people was so heavy.
- לֶ֤חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: food of
In their hunger You gave them bread from heaven; in their thirst You brought them water from the rock. You told them to go in and possess the land which You had sworn to give them.
- וְ֠לֶחֶםvelechemconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and bread
for the showbread, for the regular grain offerings and burnt offerings, for the Sabbath offerings, for the New Moons and appointed feasts, for the holy offerings, for the sin offerings to make atonement for Israel, and for all the duties of the house of our God.
- לְלֶ֣חֶםlelechempreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: for bread of
because they had not met the Israelites with food and water, but had hired Balaam to call down a curse against them (although our God had turned the curse into a blessing).
- בַּלֶּ֣חֶםbalechempreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: with the food
Job
eleven uses
I sigh when food is put before me, and my groans pour out like water.
- לַ֭חְמִיlachminoun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine singulartagged: food my
My soul refuses to touch them; they are loathsome food to me.
- לַחְמִֽי׃lachminoun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine singulartagged: food my
He wanders about as food for vultures; he knows the day of darkness is at hand.
- לַלֶּ֣חֶםlalechempreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: for the food
yet in his stomach his food sours into the venom of cobras within him.
- לַ֭חְמוֹlachmonoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: food his
You gave no water to the weary and withheld food from the famished,
- לָֽחֶם׃lachemnoun · masculine singulartagged: bread
Indeed, like wild donkeys in the desert, the poor go to work foraging for food; the wasteland is food for their children.
- לֶ֝֗חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: food
Though his sons are many, they are destined for the sword; and his offspring will never have enough food.
- לָֽחֶם׃lachemnoun · masculine singulartagged: bread
Food may come from the earth, but from below it is transformed as by fire.
- לָ֑חֶםlachemnoun · masculine singulartagged: food
They plucked mallow among the shrubs, and the roots of the broom tree were their food.
- לַחְמָֽם׃lachmamnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: food their
so that he detests his bread, and his soul loathes his favorite food.
- לָ֑חֶםlachemnoun · masculine singulartagged: bread
All his brothers and sisters and prior acquaintances came and dined with him in his house. They consoled him and comforted him over all the adversity that the LORD had brought upon him. And each one gave him a piece of silver and a gold ring.
- לֶחֶם֮lechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: bread
Psalms
nineteen uses
Will the workers of iniquity never learn? They devour my people like bread; they refuse to call upon the LORD.
- לֶ֑חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: bread
I once was young and now am old, yet never have I seen the righteous abandoned or their children begging for bread.
- לָֽחֶם׃lachemnoun · masculine singulartagged: food
Even my close friend whom I trusted, the one who shared my bread, has lifted up his heel against me.
- לַחְמִ֑יlachminoun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine singulartagged: food my
My tears have been my food both day and night, while men ask me all day long, “Where is your God?”
- לֶ֭חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: food
Will the workers of iniquity never learn? They devour my people like bread; they refuse to call upon God.
- לֶ֑חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: bread
When He struck the rock, water gushed out and torrents raged. But can He also give bread or supply His people with meat?”
- לֶ֭חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: food
Man ate the bread of angels; He sent them food in abundance.
- לֶ֣חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: bread of
You fed them with the bread of tears and made them drink the full measure of their tears.
- לֶ֣חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: bread of
My heart is afflicted, and withered like grass; I even forget to eat my bread.
- לַחְמִֽי׃lachminoun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine singulartagged: food my
For I have eaten ashes like bread and mixed my drink with tears
- כַּלֶּ֣חֶםkalechempreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: like the food
He makes the grass grow for the livestock and provides crops for man to cultivate, bringing forth food from the earth:
- לֶ֝֗חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: food
wine that gladdens the heart of man, oil that makes his face to shine, and bread that sustains his heart.
- וְ֝לֶ֗חֶםvelechemconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and food
He called down famine on the land and cut off all their supplies of food.
- לֶ֥חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: bread
They asked, and He brought quail and satisfied them with the bread of heaven.
- וְלֶ֥חֶםvelechemconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and bread of
In vain you rise early and stay up late, toiling for bread to eat— for He gives sleep to His beloved.
- לֶ֣חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: of bread of
I will bless her with abundant provisions; I will satisfy her poor with bread.
- לָֽחֶם׃lachemnoun · masculine singulartagged: food
He gives food to every creature. His loving devotion endures forever.
- לֶ֭חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: food
He executes justice for the oppressed and gives food to the hungry. The LORD sets the prisoners free,
- לֶ֭חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: food
He provides food for the animals, and for the young ravens when they call.
- לַחְמָ֑הּlachmahnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: food its
Proverbs
twenty-three uses
For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.
- לֶ֣חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: bread of
it prepares its provisions in summer; it gathers its food at harvest.
- לַחְמָ֑הּlachmahnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: food its
For the levy of the prostitute is poverty, and the adulteress preys upon your very life.
- לָ֥חֶםlachemnoun · masculine singulartagged: bread
“Come, eat my bread and drink the wine I have mixed.
- בְֽלַחֲמִ֑יvelachamipreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine singulartagged: in food my
“Stolen water is sweet, and bread eaten in secret is tasty!”
- וְלֶ֖חֶםvelechemconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and bread of
Better to be lightly esteemed yet have a servant, than to be self-important but lack food.
- לָֽחֶם׃lachemnoun · masculine singulartagged: food
The one who works his land will have plenty of food, but whoever chases fantasies lacks judgment.
- לָ֑חֶםlachemnoun · masculine singulartagged: food
Do not love sleep, or you will grow poor; open your eyes, and you will have plenty of food.
- לָֽחֶם׃lachemnoun · masculine singulartagged: food
Food gained by fraud is sweet to a man, but later his mouth is full of gravel.
- לֶ֣חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: food of
A generous man will be blessed, for he shares his bread with the poor.
- מִלַּחְמ֣וֹmilachmopreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: some of food his
Do not crave his delicacies, for that food is deceptive.
- לֶ֣חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: food of
Do not eat the bread of a stingy man, and do not crave his delicacies;
- לֶ֭חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: food of
If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat, and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink.
- לָ֑חֶםlachemnoun · masculine singulartagged: food
You will have plenty of goats’ milk to feed you—food for your household and nourishment for your maidservants.
- לְֽ֭לַחְמְךָlelachmekhapreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: for food your
- לְלֶ֣חֶםlelechempreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: for food of
A destitute leader who oppresses the poor is like a driving rain that leaves no food.
- לָֽחֶם׃lachemnoun · masculine singulartagged: food
The one who works his land will have plenty of food, but whoever chases fantasies will have his fill of poverty.
- לָ֑חֶםlachemnoun · masculine singulartagged: food
To show partiality is not good, yet a man will do wrong for a piece of bread.
- לֶ֝֗חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: bread
Keep falsehood and deceitful words far from me. Give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the bread that is my portion.
- לֶ֣חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: food of
a servant who becomes king, a fool who is filled with food,
- לָֽחֶם׃lachemnoun · masculine singulartagged: food
The ants are creatures of little strength, yet they store up their food in the summer;
- לַחְמָֽם׃lachmamnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: food their
She is like the merchant ships, bringing her food from afar.
- לַחְמָֽהּ׃lachmahnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: food her
She watches over the affairs of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness.
- וְלֶ֥חֶםvelechemconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and bread of
Ecclesiastes
four uses
Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a cheerful heart, for God has already approved your works:
- לַחְמֶ֔ךָlachmekhanoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: food your
I saw something else under the sun: The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong; neither is the bread to the wise, nor the wealth to the intelligent, nor the favor to the skillful. For time and chance happen to all.
- לֶ֙חֶם֙lechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: food
A feast is prepared for laughter, and wine makes life merry, but money is the answer for everything.
- לֶ֔חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: food
Cast your bread upon the waters, for after many days you will find it again.
- לַחְמְךָ֖lachmekhanoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: bread your
Isaiah
sixteen uses
For behold, the Lord GOD of Hosts is about to remove from Jerusalem and Judah both supply and support: the whole supply of food and water,
- לֶ֔חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: food
On that day he will cry aloud: “I am not a healer. I have no food or clothing in my house. Do not make me leader of the people!”
- לֶ֖חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: food
In that day seven women will take hold of one man and say, “We will eat our own bread and provide our own clothes. Just let us be called by your name. Take away our disgrace!”
- לַחְמֵ֣נוּlachmenunoun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine pluraltagged: own food our
Bring water for the thirsty, O dwellers of Tema; meet the refugees with food.
- בְּלַחְמ֖וֹbelachmopreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: with bread his
Grain for bread must be ground, but it is not endlessly threshed. Though the wheels of the cart roll over it, the horses do not crush it.
- לֶ֣חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: bread
The Lord will give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, but your Teacher will no longer hide Himself—with your own eyes you will see Him.
- לֶ֥חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: bread
Then He will send rain for the seed that you have sown in the ground, and the food that comes from your land will be rich and plentiful. On that day your cattle will graze in open pastures.
- וְלֶ֙חֶם֙velechemconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and food
he will dwell on the heights; the mountain fortress will be his refuge; his food will be provided and his water assured.
- לַחְמ֣וֹlachmonoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: food his
until I come and take you away to a land like your own—a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards.
- לֶ֖חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: bread
It serves as fuel for man. He takes some of it to warm himself, and he kindles a fire and bakes his bread; he even fashions it into a god and worships it; he makes an idol and bows down to it.
- לָ֑חֶםlachemnoun · masculine singulartagged: bread
And no one considers in his heart, no one has the knowledge or insight to say, “I burned half of it in the fire, and I baked bread on its coals; I roasted meat and I ate. Shall I make something detestable with the rest of it? Shall I bow down to a block of wood?”
- לֶ֔חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: bread
The captive will soon be freed; he will not die in the dungeon, and his bread will not be lacking.
- לַחְמֽוֹ׃lachmonoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: food his
Why spend money on that which is not bread, and your labor on that which does not satisfy? Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good, and your soul will delight in the richest of foods.
- לֶ֔חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: bread
For just as rain and snow fall from heaven and do not return without watering the earth, making it bud and sprout, and providing seed to sow and food to eat,
- וְלֶ֖חֶםvelechemconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and bread
Isn’t it to share your bread with the hungry, to bring the poor and homeless into your home, to clothe the naked when you see him, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?
- לַחְמֶ֔ךָlachmekhanoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: bread your
The wolf and the lamb will feed together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox, but the food of the serpent will be dust. They will neither harm nor destroy on all My holy mountain,” says the LORD.
- לַחְמ֑וֹlachmonoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: food its
Jeremiah
ten uses
They will devour your harvest and food; they will consume your sons and daughters; they will eat up your flocks and herds; they will feed on your vines and fig trees. With the sword they will destroy the fortified cities in which you trust.”
- וְלַחְמֶ֗ךָvelachmekhaconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: and food your
For I was like a gentle lamb led to slaughter; I did not know that they had plotted against me: “Let us destroy the tree with its fruit; let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be remembered no more.”
- בְּלַחְמוֹ֙belachmopreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: with bread its
So King Zedekiah gave orders for Jeremiah to be placed in the courtyard of the guard and given a loaf of bread daily from the street of the bakers, until all the bread in the city was gone. So Jeremiah remained in the courtyard of the guard.
- לֶ֤חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: bread
- הַלֶּ֖חֶםhalechemthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the bread
“My lord the king, these men have acted wickedly in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet. They have dropped him into the cistern, where he will starve to death, for there is no more bread in the city.”
- הַלֶּ֛חֶםhalechemthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the food
In the seventh month, Ishmael son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, who was a member of the royal family and one of the king’s chief officers, came with ten men to Gedaliah son of Ahikam at Mizpah, and they ate a meal together there.
- לֶ֛חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: food
and if you say, ‘No, but we will go to the land of Egypt and live there, where we will not see war or hear the sound of the ram’s horn or hunger for bread,’
- וְלַלֶּ֥חֶםvelalechemconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: and for the bread
Instead, we will do everything we vowed to do: We will burn incense to the Queen of Heaven and offer drink offerings to her, just as we, our fathers, our kings, and our officials did in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. At that time we had plenty of food and good things, and we saw no disaster.
- לֶ֙חֶם֙lechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: food
By the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine in the city was so severe that the people of the land had no food.
- לֶ֖חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: food
So Jehoiachin changed out of his prison clothes, and he dined regularly at the king’s table for the rest of his life.
- לֶ֧חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: food
Lamentations
four uses
All her people groan as they search for bread. They have traded their treasures for food to keep themselves alive. Look, O LORD, and consider, for I have become despised.
- לֶ֔חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: bread
The nursing infant’s tongue clings in thirst to the roof of his mouth. Little children beg for bread, but no one gives them any.
- לֶ֔חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: bread
We submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread.
- לָֽחֶם׃lachemnoun · masculine singulartagged: bread
We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness.
- לַחְמֵ֔נוּlachmenunoun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine pluraltagged: bread our
Ezekiel
twenty uses
But take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt; put them in a single container and make them into bread for yourself. This is what you are to eat during the 390 days you lie on your side.
- לְלָ֑חֶםlelachempreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: into bread
Then the LORD said, “This is how the Israelites will eat their defiled bread among the nations to which I will banish them.”
- לַחְמָ֖םlachmamnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: bread their
“Look,” He replied, “I will let you use cow dung instead of human excrement, and you may bake your bread over that.”
- לַחְמְךָ֖lachmekhanoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: bread your
Then He told me, “Son of man, I am going to cut off the supply of food in Jerusalem. They will anxiously eat bread rationed by weight, and in despair they will drink water by measure.
- לֶ֙חֶם֙lechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: bread
- לֶ֥חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: bread
So they will lack food and water; they will be appalled at the sight of one another wasting away in their iniquity.
- לֶ֣חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: bread
When I shower you with the deadly arrows of famine and destruction that I will send to destroy you, I will intensify the famine against you and cut off your supply of food.
- לָֽחֶם׃lachemnoun · masculine singulartagged: bread
“Son of man, eat your bread with trembling, and drink your water with quivering and anxiety.
- לַחְמְךָ֖lachmekhanoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: food your
Then tell the people of the land that this is what the Lord GOD says about those living in Jerusalem and in the land of Israel: ‘They will eat their bread with anxiety and drink their water in dread, for their land will be stripped of everything in it because of the violence of all who dwell in it.
- לַחְמָם֙lachmamnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: food their
You have profaned Me among My people for handfuls of barley and scraps of bread. By lying to My people who would listen, you have killed those who should not have died and spared those who should not have lived.
- לֶחֶם֒lechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: bread
“Son of man, if a land sins against Me by acting unfaithfully, and I stretch out My hand against it to cut off its supply of food, to send famine upon it, and to cut off from it both man and beast,
- לָ֑חֶםlachemnoun · masculine singulartagged: bread
And you set before them as a pleasing aroma the food I had given you—the fine flour, oil, and honey that I had fed you. That is what happened, declares the Lord GOD.
- וְלַחְמִי֩velachmiconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine singulartagged: and food my
Now this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed, and complacent; they did not help the poor and needy.
- לֶ֜חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: food
He does not oppress another, but restores the pledge to the debtor. He does not commit robbery, but gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with clothing.
- לַחְמוֹ֙lachmonoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: food his
He does not oppress another, or retain a pledge, or commit robbery. He gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with clothing.
- לַחְמוֹ֙lachmonoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: food his
Groan quietly; do not mourn for the dead. Put on your turban and strap your sandals on your feet; do not cover your lips or eat the bread of mourners.”
- וְלֶ֥חֶםvelechemconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and food of
Then you will do as I have done: You will not cover your lips or eat the bread of mourners.
- וְלֶ֥חֶםvelechemconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and food of
Only the prince himself may sit inside the gateway to eat in the presence of the LORD. He must enter by way of the portico of the gateway and go out the same way.”
- לֶ֖חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: bread
In addition to all your other abominations, you brought in foreigners uncircumcised in both heart and flesh to occupy My sanctuary; you defiled My temple when you offered My food—the fat and the blood; you broke My covenant.
- לַחְמִי֙lachminoun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine singulartagged: food my
The remainder of the length bordering the holy portion and running adjacent to it will be 10,000 cubits on the east side and 10,000 cubits on the west side. Its produce will supply food for the workers of the city.
- לְלֶ֔חֶםlelechempreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: into food
Daniel
one use
I ate no rich food, no meat or wine entered my mouth, and I did not anoint myself with oil until the three weeks were completed.
- לֶ֣חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: food of
Hosea
three uses
For their mother has played the harlot and has conceived them in disgrace. For she thought, ‘I will go after my lovers, who give me bread and water, wool and linen, oil and drink.’
- לַחְמִי֙lachminoun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine singulartagged: of food my
They will not pour out wine offerings to the LORD, and their sacrifices will not please Him, but will be to them like the bread of mourners; all who eat will be defiled. For their bread will be for themselves; it will not enter the house of the LORD.
- כְּלֶ֤חֶםkelechempreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: like bread of
- לַחְמָ֣םlachmamnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: bread their
Amos
three uses
“I beset all your cities with cleanness of teeth and all your towns with lack of bread, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.
- לֶ֔חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: bread
And Amaziah said to Amos, “Go away, you seer! Flee to the land of Judah; earn your bread there and do your prophesying there.
- לֶ֔חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: bread
Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord GOD, when I will send a famine on the land—not a famine of bread or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the LORD.
- לַלֶּ֙חֶם֙lalechempreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: for the bread
Obadiah
one use
All the men allied with you will drive you to the border; the men at peace with you will deceive and overpower you. Those who eat your bread will set a trap for you without your awareness of it.
- לַחְמְךָ֗lachmekhanoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: food your
Haggai
one use
If a man carries consecrated meat in the fold of his garment, and it touches bread, stew, wine, oil, or any other food, does that item become holy?’” “No,” replied the priests.
- הַלֶּ֨חֶםhalechemthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the bread
Malachi
one use
By presenting defiled food on My altar. But you ask, ‘How have we defiled You?’ By saying that the table of the LORD is contemptible.
- לֶ֣חֶםlechemnoun · masculine singulartagged: food
The letters
Gematria 78· 638 mispar gadol
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