Lexicon lechum: intestines, bowels Original Word: לְחוּםPart of Speech: Noun Masculine Transliteration: lechum Phonetic Spelling: (law-khoom') Short Definition: eating NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom lachamDefinitionintestines, bowels NASB Translationeating (1), flesh (1).
Brown-Driver-Briggs לְחוּם noun [masculine] perhaps intestines, bowels (meaning and √ not wholly certain, compare Nö ZMG xl. 886, 721; from לחם = press together, according to Dl Prol. 193); — only suffix: וּלְחֻמֿם כַּגְּלָלִים Zephaniah 1:17 their blood shall be poured out like water, and their bowels like dung Hi-St (ct. 2 Samuel 20:10), Dl l.c. We ('ihr Mark'), Rothst Kau AT Di Job 20:23; Gr חֵילָם compare Job 20:12 (to which Now included); Now suggests also וְלֵחָם and their moisture (freshness, vigour, compare Deuteronomy 34:7); > and others who render flesh, ᵐ5 τὰς σάρκας (compare Arabic flesh, meat, see below לֶחֶם); וְיַמְטֵר עָלֵימוֺ בִּלְחוּמוֺ Job 20:23 to fill his belly, God sendeth into him his burning anger, and raineth it upon him, into his (very) bowels Hi Dl l.c. Bae KauAT (compare Di, and into his flesh De, see above); > distinguished from Zephaniah 1:17 Di (in translation) Da Hoffm Bu his food (as object of ימטר; read then לַחְמוֺ); ᵐ5 ὀδύνας, whence Me Sgfr חֲבָלִים, Schw ZAW x, 1890, 179 בַּלָּהָה; Nö l.c. wrath, compare Syriac threaten. Strong's while Or lachum {law-khoom'}; passive participle of lacham; properly, eaten, i.e. Food; also flesh, i.e. Body -- while...is eating, flesh. see HEBREW lacham |
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