Lexical Summary Lachish: a Canaanite city Southwest of Jer Original Word: לָכִישׁTransliteration: Lachish Phonetic Spelling: (law-keesh') Part of Speech: Proper Name Location Short Definition: a Canaanite city Southwest of Jer Meaning: Lachish -- a Canaanite city Southwest of Jerusalem Strong's Concordance Lachish From an unused root of uncertain meaning; Lakish, a place in Palestine -- Lachish. Brown-Driver-Briggs H3923. Lachish לָכִישׁ proper name, of a location — so Joshua 10:3 +; with ה locative לֶכִ֫ישָׁה 10:31 5t.; — Canaanitish (Amorite) city, with king, 10:3, 5, 23 (all J E), 10:31; 12:11 (both D); (= Tel el-Amarna Lakiša, Lakisi WklTA Tablets, Nos. 217, 218, 180, 181); captured by 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) = 2 Chronicles 25:27 (twice in verse), 11:9; Nehemiah 11:30; base of Assyrian operations 2 Kings 18:14, compare 2 Chronicles 32:9, also 2 Kings 18:17; 19:8 = Isaiah 36:2; 37:8 ( = Assyrian Lakisi SchrCOT 2 Kings 18:13); probably = modern Tell el-Hesy, approximately 33 miles southwest from Jerusalem FJBMound of Many Cities, 1893 BuhlGeogr. § 103 GASmGeogr. 234; > Umm el-Lâkis vd VeldeMem. 320 GuérinJudeé; ii. 299 ff.; Um Lâkis opposed to by RobBR ii. 47. — ᵐ5 Λαχεις. לָכֵן see כֵּן. לֻלָאוֺת see [ לוּלַי] below לולו. |
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