לֶחֶם lechem

Hebrew word for “food” · Strong’s H3899 · used 298 times in 277 verses

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Meaning

: bread/loaf; 1) bread, food, grain; 1a) bread; 1a1) bread; 1a2) bread-corn; 1b) food (in general)

Senses in the lexicon

• food: bread (221)
• food (72)
• food: allowance (5)

How it is translated

Glosses given for lechem in context, with how often each is used:

• food 145
• bread 139
• breads 7
• will be bread 1
• like food 1
• some of food 1
• own food 1
• will be food 1
• will be like bread 1
• any of the food 1

Where it is used

Also in 18 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

1 Kings 13 (9), Exodus 16 (8), Genesis 47 (5), Leviticus 21 (5), Ezekiel 4 (5), Exodus 29 (4), Leviticus 22 (4), Leviticus 23 (4), Genesis 43 (3), Leviticus 8 (3)

Forms

• לחם 195
• ולחם 17
• הלחם 16
• ללחם 8
• לחמי 8
• לחמו 8
• לחמך 7
• בלחם 7
• לחמם 5
• לחמנו 4

Words used with it

Words that share verses with lechem more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• אָכַל akhal “to eat” 101
• מַי mayim “water” 41
• שָׁתָה shatah “to drink” 24
• יַיִן yayin “wine” 19
• שָׂבֵעַ sava “to satisfy” 13
• לָקַח laqach “to take” 22
• עַד ad “till” 22
• שֻׁלְחָן shulchan “table” 11
• בָּשָׂר basar “flesh” 14
• שׁוּב shuv “to return” 20
• רָעָב raav “famine” 11
• הָלַךְ halakh “to go” 21

Key verses

The verses using lechem that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Genesis 3:19 — 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…
• Numbers 14:9 — 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…
• Psalms 104:15 — And wine that maketh glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face to shine, and bread which strengtheneth man’s heart.
• Ecclesiastes 9:7 — Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.
• Ecclesiastes 9:11 — I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of…
• Isaiah 55:2 — 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…
• Isaiah 58:7 — 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…
• Jeremiah 11:19 — 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…
• Jeremiah 44:17 — 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,…
• Ezekiel 16:49 — Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she…
• Ezekiel 18:7 — And hath not oppressed any, but hath restored to the debtor his pledge, hath spoiled none by violence, hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the…
• Ezekiel 44:7 — In that ye have brought into my sanctuary strangers, uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to pollute it, even my house,…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.