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1 Chronicles 23:29
“Both for the shewbread, and for the fine flour for meat offering, and for the unleavened cakes, and for that which is baked in the pan, and for that which is fried, and for all manner of measure and size;” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H3899 · Hebrew
- Definition
- food (for man or beast), especially bread, or grain (for making it)
- Derivation
- from H3898 (לָחַם); See also H1036 (בֵּית לְעַפְרָה)
- KJV renderings
- (shew-) bread, [idiom] eat, food, fruit, loaf, meat, victuals.
- Grammar
- וּ — conjunction
- לְ — preposition
- לֶ֨חֶם — common noun, both genders, singular, construct
- Usage
- Occurs 299 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 3:19Genesis 14:18Genesis 18:5Genesis 21:14Genesis 25:34
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read לֶחֶם here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.