לָחַם
lâcham · law-kham'
to feed on; figuratively, to consume; by implication, to battle (as destruction)
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to feed on; figuratively, to consume; by implication, to battle (as destruction)
- to feed on
- figuratively, to consume
- by implication, to battle (as destruction)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: devour, eat, [idiom] ever, fight(-ing), overcome, prevail, (make) war(-ring).
Letters
- לLamed30
Picture: shepherd's staff or goad
- Concrete
- staff · goad · yoke · cattle prod
- Extended
- authority · to lead · to teach · to bind · toward
- חHet8
Picture: courtyard wall or enclosure
- Concrete
- wall · fence · tent wall
- Extended
- to separate · protection · the inside vs. the outside · private
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
authority, the one who leads › to separate and protect › water, chaos, the mighty deep
Authority, the one who leads that works to separate and protect of water, chaos, the mighty deep.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of לָחַם above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
177 occurrences · 177 OT · 0 NT · 98 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- to fight28 · 23%
- and fought17 · 14%
- fought13 · 11%
- and fight11 · 9%
- fight7 · 6%
- and they shall fight5 · 4%
- and they fought4 · 3%
- that fight4 · 3%
- that we may fight3 · 2%
- and warred3 · 2%
- they fought2 · 2%
- fighteth2 · 2%
- against it, and fought2 · 2%
- made war2 · 2%
- warring2 · 2%
- he fought2 · 2%
- him, because he had fought2 · 2%
- when he fought2 · 2%
- how he warred2 · 2%
- nor fight2 · 2%
- shall fight2 · 2%
- eat2 · 2%
- who had fought1 · 1%
- then he fought1 · 1%
- to him, and fought1 · 1%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.