Definition

properly, eaten, i.e. food; also flesh, i.e. body

Etymology

or לָחֻם; passive participle of H3898 (לָחַם);

Where the KJV renders it

• while...is eating
• flesh

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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