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Job 20:14

“Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.” (KJV)

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Lexical meaning

לֶחֶםlechem · lekh'-em
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: לַ֭חְמ — common noun, both genders, singular, construct
וֹ — suffix (pronominal), 3rd person, masculine, singular
Code HNcbsc/Sp3ms
Usage: Occurs 299 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 3:19 Genesis 14:18 Genesis 18:5 Genesis 21:14 Genesis 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.

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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.