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Nehemiah 9:15

“And gavest them bread from heaven for their hunger, and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and promisedst them that they should go in to possess the land which thou hadst sworn to give them.” (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: וְ֠ — conjunction
לֶחֶם — common noun, both genders, singular, absolute
Code HC/Ncbsa
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.