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Nehemiah 10:34
“And we cast the lots among the priests, the Levites, and the people, for the wood offering, to bring it into the house of our God, after the houses of our fathers, at times appointed year by year, to burn upon the altar of the Lord our God, as it is written in the law:” (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
- לְ — preposition
- לֶ֣חֶם — 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.