Strong's Lexicon

H3900

H3900 — לְחֶם

Hebrew / Aramaic entry for Bible study and original-language reference.

Aramaiclchemnoun mascOccurrences: 1TWOT: 2814

Definition / Gloss

Strong's Number:H3900
Word:לְחֶם
Part of Speech:noun masc
Etymology:(Aramaic) corresponding to H3899
Language:Aramaic
Occurrences:1
Transliteration:lchem
Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation:lekh-em'
Meaning:1. feast
KJV Renderings:Not listed

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לְחֵם (K§ 54, 3. 7) noun masculine feast ( ᵑ7 Syriac bread, so Biblical Hebrew, q. v. √ II. לחם ); — absolute ׳ עֲבַד ל Dan 5:1 made a feast.


Other Resources

Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament
R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, and Bruce K. Waltke

Englishman's Hebrew Concordance

לחם (leh’-ghem)

Genesis 3:19

KJV: In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
EHCC: the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat breed,

Genesis 14:18

KJV: And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God.
EHCC: of Salem brought forth bread and wine:

Genesis 18:5

KJV: And I will fetch a morsel of bread, and comfort ye your hearts; after that ye shall pass on: for therefore are ye come to your servant. And they said, So do, as thou hast said.comfort: Heb. stayare…: Heb. you have passed
EHCC: 1 will fetch a morsel of bread,

Genesis 21:14

KJV: And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beer–sheba.
EHCC: and took bread, and a bottle of water,

Genesis 25:34

KJV: Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way: thus Esau despised his birthright.
EHCC: Jacob gave Esau bread and portage

Genesis 27:17

KJV: And she gave the savoury meat and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.
EHCC: she gave the savoury meat and breud,

Genesis 28:20

KJV: And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on,
EHCC: and will give me bread to eat,

Genesis 31:54

KJV: Then Jacob offered sacrifice upon the mount, and called his brethren to eat bread: and they did eat bread, and tarried all night in the mount.offered…: or, killed beasts
EHCC: called his brethren to eat bread: and they

Genesis 37:25

KJV: And they sat down to eat bread: and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and, behold, a company of Ishmeelites came from Gilead with their camels bearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.
EHCC: they sat down to eat bread:

Genesis 389:6

EHCC: the bread which he did eat.

Genesis 43:25

KJV: And they made ready the present against Joseph came at noon: for they heard that they should eat bread there.
EHCC: they heard that they should est bread

Genesis 45:23

KJV: And to his father he sent after this manner; ten asses laden with the good things of Egypt, and ten she asses laden with corn and bread and meat for his father by the way.laden…: Heb. carrying
EHCC: laden th corn cad bread

Genesis 47:12

KJV: And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father’s household, with bread, according to their families.according…: or, as a little child is nourished: Heb. according to the little ones
EHCC: Joseph nourished his father,... with bread,

Genesis 49:20

KJV: Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal dainties.
EHCC: Out of Asher Ais bread (shall be) fat,

Exodus 2:20

KJV: And he said unto his daughters, And where is he? why is it that ye have left the man? call him, that he may eat bread.
EHCC: call him, that he may eat bread.

Exodus 16:3

KJV: And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.
EHCC: when we did eat bread to the full ;

Exodus 4:1

KJV: And Moses answered and said, But, behold, they will not believe me, nor hearken unto my voice: for they will say, The Lord hath not appeared unto thee.
EHCC: will rain bread from heaven

Exodus 18:12

KJV: And Jethro, Moses’ father in law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God: and Aaron came, and all the elders of Israel, to eat bread with Moses’ father in law before God.
EHCC: to eat bread with Moses”

Exodus 23:25

KJV: And ye shall serve the Lord your God, and he shall bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee.
EHCC: he shall bless thy bread,

Exodus 25:30

KJV: And thou shalt set upon the table shewbread before me alway.
EHCC: set upon the table shewbread

Exodus 29:2

KJV: And unleavened bread, and cakes unleavened tempered with oil, and wafers unleavened anointed with oil: of wheaten flour shalt thou make them.
EHCC: And unleavened bread, and cakes

Exodus 94:28

EHCC: he did neither eat bread, nor drink watet.

Exodus 35:13

KJV: The table, and his staves, and all his vessels, and the shewbread,
EHCC: his vessels, and the shewbread,

Exodus 39:96

EHCC: the vessels thereof, and the shewbread,

Exodus 0:20

EHCC: be ane Phe teed Secrece

Leviticus 3:11

KJV: And the priest shall burn it upon the altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire unto the Lord.
EHCC: 16.the food of the offering made by fire

Leviticus 7:13

KJV: Besides the cakes, he shall offer for his offering leavened bread with the sacrifice of thanksgiving of his peace offerings.
EHCC: leavened bread with the sacrifice

Leviticus 6:26

KJV: The priest that offereth it for sin shall eat it: in the holy place shall it be eaten, in the court of the tabernacle of the congregation.
EHCC: the basket of unleavened bread,

Leviticus 22:7

KJV: And when the sun is down, he shall be clean, and shall afterward eat of the holy things; because it is his food.
EHCC: because it (is) Ais |

Leviticus 28:14

EHCC: ye shall eat neither bread, nor

Leviticus 24:7

KJV: And thou shalt put pure frankincense upon each row, that it may be on the bread for a memorial, even an offering made by fire unto the Lord.
EHCC: 0m the bread for a memorial,

Numbers 4:7

KJV: And upon the table of shewbread they shall spread a cloth of blue, and put thereon the dishes, and the spoons, and the bowls, and covers to cover withal: and the continual bread shall be thereon:cover…: or, pour out withal
EHCC: and the conti bread shall be

Numbers 14:9

KJV: Only rebel not ye against the Lord, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defence is departed from them, and the Lord is with us: fear them not.defence: Heb. shadow
EHCC: for they (are) bread for us:

Numbers 15:19

KJV: Then it shall be, that, when ye eat of the bread of the land, ye shall offer up an heave offering unto the Lord.
EHCC: when ye eat of the bread of the land,

Numbers 1:5

KJV: And these are the names of the men that shall stand with you: of the tribe of Reuben; Elizur the son of Shedeur.
EHCC: for (there is) no bread,

Numbers 28:2

KJV: Command the children of Israel, and say unto them, My offering, and my bread for my sacrifices made by fire, for a sweet savour unto me, shall ye observe to offer unto me in their due season.a sweet…: Heb. a savour of my rest
EHCC: sy bread for my sacrifices

Deuteronomy 8:3

KJV: And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live.
EHCC: man doth not live .

Deuteronomy 9:9

KJV: When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which the Lord made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water:
EHCC: 1 neither did eat bread |

Deuteronomy 18:1

KJV: The priests the Levites, and all the tribe of Levi, shall have no part nor inheritance with Israel: they shall eat the offerings of the Lord made by fire, and his inheritance.
EHCC: did neither eat bread,

Deuteronomy 10:18

KJV: He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.
EHCC: in giving him food and raiment.

Deuteronomy 16:3

KJV: Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread therewith, even the bread of affliction; for thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt in haste: that thou mayest remember the day when thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of thy life.
EHCC: the bread of affliction ;

Joshua 9:5

KJV: And old shoes and clouted upon their feet, and old garments upon them; and all the bread of their provision was dry and mouldy.
EHCC: all the bread of their provision

Judges 7:13

KJV: And when Gideon was come, behold, there was a man that told a dream unto his fellow, and said, Behold, I dreamed a dream, and, lo, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the host of Midian, and came unto a tent, and smote it that it fell, and overturned it, that the tent lay along.
EHCC: 8 cake of barley bread

Judges 30:11

EHCC: and gave him bread, and he did eat ;

2 Samuel 3:29

KJV: Let it rest on the head of Joab, and on all his father’s house; and let there not fail from the house of Joab one that hath an issue, or that is a leper, or that leaneth on a staff, or that falleth on the sword, or that lacketh bread.fail: Heb. be cut off
EHCC: or that lacketh bread.

2 Kings 4:8

KJV: And it fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where was a great woman; and she constrained him to eat bread. And so it was, that as oft as he passed by, he turned in thither to eat bread.it fell on a day: Heb. there was a dayconstrained him: Heb. laid hold on him
EHCC: she constrained him to eat bread.

2 Kings 18:32

KJV: Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of oil olive and of honey, that ye may live, and not die: and hearken not unto Hezekiah, when he persuadeth you, saying, The Lord will deliver us.persuadeth: or, deceiveth
EHCC: a land of bread and fineyards,

1 Chronicles 9:32

KJV: And other of their brethren, of the sons of the Kohathites, were over the shewbread, to prepare it every sabbath.shewbread: Heb. bread of ordering
EHCC: the Kohathites, (were) over the shewbread,

1 Chronicles 18:11

KJV: Them also king David dedicated unto the Lord, with the silver and the gold that he brought from all these nations; from Edom, and from Moab, and from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines, and from Amalek.
EHCC: the shewbread also (set they in order)

1 Chronicles 18:26

EHCC: feed him with bread of affliction

Ezra 10:6

KJV: Then Ezra rose up from before the house of God, and went into the chamber of Johanan the son of Eliashib: and when he came thither, he did eat no bread, nor drink water: for he mourned because of the transgression of them that had been carried away.
EHCC: he did eat no bread,

Nehemiah 5:14

KJV: Moreover from the time that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year even unto the two and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes the king, that is, twelve years, I and my brethren have not eaten the bread of the governor.
EHCC: the bread of the governor.

Nehemiah 9:18

KJV: Yea, when they had made them a molten calf, and said, This is thy God that brought thee up out of Egypt, and had wrought great provocations;
EHCC: And gavest them bread from heaven

Nehemiah 10:83

EHCC: (34). For the shewbread,

Nehemiah 18:2

EHCC: met not the children of Israel with bread * .

Job 3:24

KJV: For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.I eat: Heb. my meat
EHCC: cometh before 1 eat, (lit. before my bread)

Job 6:7

KJV: The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat.
EHCC: as my sorrowful meat. .

Job 15:23

KJV: He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
EHCC: He wandereth abroad for bread,

Job 20:14

KJV: Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.
EHCC: Ais meat in his bowels is turned,

Job 22:7

KJV: Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast withholden bread from the hungry.
EHCC: withholden bread from the hungry.

Job 27:14

KJV: If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
EHCC: obpring shall not be satisfled with bread. 0

Job 28:5

KJV: As for the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire.
EHCC: the , out of it cometh bread:

Job 30:4

KJV: Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.
EHCC: cut up. Juniper roots (for) their meut.

Job 33:20

KJV: So that his life abhorreth bread, and his soul dainty meat.dainty…: Heb. meat of desire
EHCC: his life abhorreth bread,

Job 37:25

EHCC: forsaken. nor Bis seed beggin bread.

Job 41:9

KJV: Behold, the hope of him is in vain: shall not one be cast down even at the sight of him?
EHCC: (10). which did eat of my cad,

Job 80:5

EHCC: (6). Thou feedest them with the tread of

Job 102:4

EHCC: (5).1 forget to eat my bread.

Job 104:14

EHCC: סמ may bring forth food out of the earth ;

Job 105:16

EHCC: he brake the whole staff of bread.

Job 127:2

EHCC: to eat the bread of sorrows: .

Job 132:15

EHCC: 1 will satisfy her poor with bread.

Job 136:25

EHCC: Who Biveth food to all flesh: .

Job 146:7

EHCC: which giveth food to the hungry.

Job 147:9

EHCC: He giveth to the beast his feds

Proverbs 4:17

KJV: For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
EHCC: they eat the bread of wickedness,

Proverbs 6:8

KJV: Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.
EHCC: Provideth her meat in the summer,

Proverbs 9:5

KJV: Come, eat of my bread, and drink of the wine which I have mingled.
EHCC: eat of my bread,

Proverbs 12:9

KJV: He that is despised, and hath a servant, is better than he that honoureth himself, and lacketh bread.
EHCC: that honoureth himeelf, and lacketh bread.

Proverbs 20:13

KJV: Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
EHCC: thou shalt be satisfied with bread.

Proverbs 22:9

KJV: He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he giveth of his bread to the poor.He that…: Heb. Good of eye
EHCC: he giveth of his to the poor. -

Proverbs 23:3

KJV: Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat.
EHCC: dainties: for they (are) deceitful meat, .

Proverbs 25:21

KJV: If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink:
EHCC: If thine enemy be hungry, give him Bread

Proverbs 27:27

KJV: And thou shalt have goats’ milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, and for the maintenance for thy maidens.maintenance: Heb. life
EHCC: goats’ milk enough, Sor thy food, for the food

Proverbs 28:38

EHCC: sweeping rain which leaveth no food.

Proverbs 90:8

EHCC: feed me with food convenient for me:

Ecclesiastes 9:7

KJV: Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.
EHCC: eat thy bread with joy,

Ecclesiastes 10:19

KJV: A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things.maketh…: Heb. maketh glad the life
EHCC: 4 feast is made for laughter,

Ecclesiastes 11:1

KJV: Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days.upon…: Heb. upon the face of the waters
EHCC: Cast thy beeepen the watera:

Isaiah 3:1

KJV: For, behold, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water,
EHCC: the whole stay of bread,

Isaiah 4:1

KJV: And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.let…: Heb. let thy name be called upon usto take…: or, take thou away
EHCC: We will eat our own bread,

Isaiah 21:14

KJV: The inhabitants of the land of Tema brought water to him that was thirsty, they prevented with their bread him that fled.brought: or, bring ye
EHCC: they prevented sith their bread

Isaiah 98:28

EHCC: Bread (corn) is bruised ;

Isaiah 30:20

KJV: And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers:affliction: or, oppression
EHCC: the bread of adversity,

Isaiah 83:16

EHCC: bread shall be given him;

Isaiah 86:17

EHCC: land of bread and vineyards.

Isaiah 44:15

KJV: Then shall it be for a man to burn: for he will take thereof, and warm himself; yea, he kindleth it, and baketh bread; yea, he maketh a god, and worshippeth it; he maketh it a graven image, and falleth down thereto.
EHCC: he kindleth (it), and baketh bread ;

Isaiah 19:1

KJV: The burden of Egypt. Behold, the Lord rideth upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it.
EHCC: have baked bread upon the coals

Isaiah 61:14

EHCC: nor that Ais bread should fail.

Isaiah 55:2

KJV: Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.spend: Heb. weigh
EHCC: (that which is) not bread?

Isaiah 58:7

KJV: Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?cast…: or, afflicted
EHCC: to deal thy bread to the hungry,

Isaiah 65:25

KJV: The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent’s meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the Lord.
EHCC: dust (shall be) the serpent’s meat.

Jeremiah 5:17

KJV: And they shall eat up thine harvest, and thy bread, which thy sons and thy daughters should eat: they shall eat up thy flocks and thine herds: they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig trees: they shall impoverish thy fenced cities, wherein thou trustedst, with the sword.
EHCC: eat up thine harvest, and thy bread,

Jeremiah 11:19

KJV: But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.the tree…: Heb. the stalk with his bread
EHCC: Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof

Jeremiah 37:91

EHCC: give him daily a piece of bread out of the

Jeremiah 38:9

KJV: My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon; and he is like to die for hunger in the place where he is: for there is no more bread in the city.he is like…: Heb. he will die
EHCC: no more bread in the city.

Jeremiah 41:1

KJV: Now it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah the son of Elishama, of the seed royal, and the princes of the king, even ten men with him, came unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah; and there they did eat bread together in Mizpah.
EHCC: did eat bread together

Jeremiah 44:17

KJV: But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, as we have done, we, and our fathers, our kings, and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem: for then had we plenty of victuals, and were well, and saw no evil.queen…: or, frame of heavenvictuals: Heb. bread
EHCC: bad we plenty of victuals, (marg. bread)

Jeremiah 52:6

KJV: And in the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.
EHCC: there was no bread for the people

Lamentations 1:11

KJV: All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul: see, O Lord, and consider; for I am become vile.to…: or, to make the soul to come again
EHCC: All her le sigh, ¢ ;

Lamentations 4:4

KJV: The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread, and no man breaketh it unto them.
EHCC: the young children auk bread,

Lamentations 5:16

KJV: The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!The…: Heb. The crown of our head is fallen
EHCC: will bi your staff of bread:

Lamentations 12:18

EHCC: Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking,

Lamentations 18:19

EHCC: Is of barley and for pieces of bread,

Lamentations 14:13

EHCC: will break the staff of the bread thereof,

Lamentations 16:19

EHCC: My meat also which 1 gave thee,

Lamentations 18:7

EHCC: given his bread to the hungry,

Lamentations 94:17

EHCC: and eat not the bread of men.

Lamentations 44:8

EHCC: to eat bread before the Lord;

Lamentations 48:18

EHCC: for food unto them that serve the city.

Hosea 2:3

KJV: Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst.
EHCC: (7). give (me) my bread and my water,

Hosea 9:4

KJV: They shall not offer wine offerings to the Lord, neither shall they be pleasing unto him: their sacrifices shall be unto them as the bread of mourners; all that eat thereof shall be polluted: for their bread for their soul shall not come into the house of the Lord.
EHCC: as the bread of mourners ;

Amos 4:6

KJV: And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord.
EHCC: want of bread in all your plaves:

Amos 7:12

KJV: Also Amaziah said unto Amos, O thou seer, go, flee thee away into the land of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy there:
EHCC: and there eat bread,

Amos 8:11

KJV: Behold, the days come, saith the Lord God, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord:
EHCC: not a famine shige
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