Strong’s H3900 · Hebrew

לְחֶם
lᵉchem
lekh-em'

Definition

{(for man or beast), especially bread, or grain (for making it)}

Etymology

(Aramaic) corresponding to H3899 (לֶחֶם)

Where the KJV renders it

  • feast

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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