לֶחֶם
lechem · lekh'-em
food (for man or beast), especially bread, or grain (for making it)
Lexicon
Derivation: from H3898 (לָחַם); See also H1036 (בֵּית לְעַפְרָה)
food (for man or beast), especially bread, or grain (for making it)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: (shew-) bread, [idiom] eat, food, fruit, loaf, meat, victuals.
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 לֶחֶם 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
298 occurrences · 298 OT · 0 NT · 96 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- bread78 · 39%
- of bread26 · 13%
- the bread13 · 6%
- with bread8 · 4%
- no bread8 · 4%
- meat6 · 3%
- thy bread6 · 3%
- food5 · 2%
- loaves5 · 2%
- and bread5 · 2%
- and the bread4 · 2%
- them with bread3 · 1%
- them bread3 · 1%
- his bread3 · 1%
- him bread3 · 1%
- them with the bread3 · 1%
- my bread3 · 1%
- for bread3 · 1%
- any food3 · 1%
- loaves of bread3 · 1%
- of the bread3 · 1%
- him with bread2 · 1%
- your bread2 · 1%
- it is the food2 · 1%
- and there was no bread2 · 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.