Lexicon Lachish: a Canaanite city Southwest of Jer. Original Word: לָכִישׁPart of Speech: Proper Name Location Transliteration: Lachish Phonetic Spelling: (law-keesh') Short Definition: Lachish NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originof uncertain derivation Definitiona Canaanite city S.W. of Jer. NASB TranslationLachish (24).
Brown-Driver-Briggs לָכִישׁ proper name, of a location — so Joshua 10:3 +; with ה locative לֶכִ֫ישָׁה Joshua 10:31 5t.; — Canaanitish (Amorite) city, with king, Joshua 10:3,5,23 (all J E), Joshua 10:31; Joshua 12:11 (both D); (= Tel el-Amarna Lakiša, Lakisi Wkl TA Tablets, Nos. 217, 218, 180, 181); captured by Joshua 10:32,33,34,35 (all D); reckoned to Judah Micah 1:13; Jeremiah 34:7; Joshua 15:39 (P), compare 2 Kings 14:19 (twice in verse) = 2Chronicles 25:27 (twice in verse), 2Chronicles 11:9; Nehemiah 11:30; base of Assyrian operations 2 Kings 18:14, compare 2Chronicles 32:9, also 2 Kings 18:17; 2 Kings 19:8 = Isaiah 36:2; Isaiah 37:8 ( = Assyrian Lakisi Schr COT 2 Kings 18:13); probably = modern Tell el-Hesy, approximately 33 miles southwest from Jerusalem FJB Mound of Many Cities, 1893 Buhl Geogr. § 103 GASm Geogr. 234; > Umm el-Lâkis vd Velde Mem. 320 Guérin Judeé; ii. 299 ff.; Um Lâkis opposed to by Rob BR ii. 47. — ᵐ5 Λαχεις. לָכֵן see כֵּן. לֻלָאוֺת see [ לוּלַי] below לולו.
Strong's Lachish From an unused root of uncertain meaning; Lakish, a place in Palestine -- Lachish. |
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