Hebrew noun (masculine) · H3908
לַחַשׁ
lachashlakh'-ash
charm
5 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 H3908is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H3908
properly, a whisper, i.e. by implication, (in a good sense) a private prayer, (in a bad one) an incantation; concretely, an amulet
The King James renders it: charmed, earring, enchantment, orator, prayer.
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
lachash is rendered "charm". It stands 5 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- Three of the uses stand in Isaiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Ecclesiastes 10:11If the snake bites before it is charmed, there is no profit for the charmer.
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
If the snake bites before it is charmed, there is no profit for the charmer.
Ecclesiastes 10:11לָ֑חַשׁ
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's five uses are in Isaiah.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- charming2
- a charm1
- a whisper1
- and the amulets1
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| לַחַץ | lachats | oppression | Uses12 |
All 5, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 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
- לָ֑חַשׁ2
- וְהַלְּחָשִֽׁים׃1
- לַ֔חַשׁ1
- לָֽחַשׁ׃1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular4HNcmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine plural1HC/Td/Ncmpa
Ecclesiastes
one use
If the snake bites before it is charmed, there is no profit for the charmer.
- לָ֑חַשׁlachashnoun · masculine singulartagged: charming
Isaiah
three uses
the commander of fifty and the dignitary, the counselor, the cunning magician, and the clever enchanter.
- לָֽחַשׁ׃lachashnoun · masculine singulartagged: charming
their headdresses, ankle chains, and sashes; their perfume bottles and charms;
- וְהַלְּחָשִֽׁים׃vehalechashimconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and the amulets
O LORD, they sought You in their distress; when You disciplined them, they poured out a quiet prayer.
- לַ֔חַשׁlachashnoun · masculine singulartagged: a whisper
Jeremiah
one use
“For behold, I will send snakes among you, vipers that cannot be charmed, and they will bite you,” declares the LORD.
- לָ֑חַשׁlachashnoun · masculine singulartagged: a charm
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.