לְמוֹ
lᵉmôw · lem-o'
to or for
Lexicon
Derivation: a prolonged and separable form of the prepositional prefix;
to or for
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: at, for, to, upon.
Letters
- לLamed30
Picture: shepherd's staff or goad
- Concrete
- staff · goad · yoke · cattle prod
- Extended
- authority · to lead · to teach · to bind · toward
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
- וVav6
Picture: tent peg or hook
- Concrete
- nail · peg · hook
- Extended
- to fasten · to secure · to establish · and (joining)
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
authority, the one who leads › water, chaos, the mighty deep › to fasten and establish
Authority, the one who leads of water, chaos, the mighty deep that works to fasten and establish.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of לְמוֹ 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
4 occurrences · 4 OT · 0 NT · 2 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- it is for1 · 25%
- at1 · 25%
- to1 · 25%
- upon1 · 25%
Where it is used, by book.
- Job4
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.