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Judges 1:8
“Now the children of Judah had fought against Jerusalem, and had taken it, and smitten it with the edge of the sword, and set the city on fire.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
לָחַםlâcham · law-kham'
H3898 · Hebrew
H3898 · Hebrew
- Definition
- to feed on; figuratively, to consume; by implication, to battle (as destruction)
- Derivation
- a primitive root;
- KJV renderings
- devour, eat, [idiom] ever, fight(-ing), overcome, prevail, (make) war(-ring).
- Grammar
- וַ — conjunction
- יִּלָּחֲמ֤וּ — verb Niphal, sequential imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, plural
- Usage
- Occurs 177 times in the Hebrew Bible.Exodus 1:10Exodus 14:14Exodus 14:25Exodus 17:8Exodus 17:9
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 לָחַם 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.