Strong's Lexicon

H3955

H3955 — לְשַׁד

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

Hebrewlshadnoun mascOccurrences: 2TWOT: 1128a

Definition / Gloss

Strong's Number:H3955
Word:לְשַׁד
Part of Speech:noun masc
Etymology:from an unused root of uncertain meaning
Language:Hebrew
Occurrences:2
Transliteration:lshad
Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation:lesh-ad'
Meaning:1. apparently juice, i.e. (figuratively) vigor 2. also a sweet or fat cake
KJV Renderings:fresh, moisture.

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced

BDB4467

[לָשָׁד] noun masculine juice, juicy or dainty bit, dainty; — construct כְּטַעַן לְשַׁד הַשָּׁ֑מֶן Num 11:8 ( J ) simile of taste of manna ( ᵐ5 ἐγκρίς, ᵑ9 panis oleatus), i.e. a dainty prepared with oil (compare Di ); לְשַׁדִּי בְּחַרְבֹנֵי קַיִץ נֶהְפַּךְ Ps 32:4 my juice (sap, life-moisture) is transformed, etc.


Other Resources

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

Englishman's Hebrew Concordance

לשד (l’shad)

Numbers 11:8

KJV: And the people went about, and gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in a mortar, and baked it in pans, and made cakes of it: and the taste of it was as the taste of fresh oil.
EHCC: as the taste of fresh oil.

Psalms 32:4

KJV: For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.
EHCC: my moisture is turned into the drought
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