Lexical Summary laham: to swallow greedily Original Word: לָהַםTransliteration: laham Phonetic Spelling: (law-ham') Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to swallow greedily Meaning: to burn in, to rankle Strong's Concordance wound A primitive root; properly, to burn in, i.e. (figuratively) to rankle -- wound. Brown-Driver-Briggs H3859. laham [לָהַם] verb swallow greedily (= Arabic ; DiLex, Ethiopic 25 compare Ethiopic ox, cow); — only Hithpa`el Participle מִתְלַהֲמִים Proverbs 18:8 i.e. bits greedily swallowed, dainties, = 26:22, simile of tale-bearer's words. |
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