1. לָחַם
use as food, eat
The corpus record — Hebrew
וְנִלְחַם
lacham · vb
use as food, eat
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Distribution
- Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) 177 · 5.77/10k
Senses
2. לָחַם
fight, do battle
3. לָחַם
to feed on; figuratively, to consume; by implication, to battle (as destruction)
Attestations
- וְ/נִלְחַם Exodus 1:10 (BHS)
- יִלָּחֵ֣ם Exodus 14:14 (BHS)
- נִלְחָ֥ם Exodus 14:25 (BHS)
- וַ/יִּלָּ֥חֶם Exodus 17:8 (BHS)
- הִלָּחֵ֣ם Exodus 17:9 (BHS)
- לְ/הִלָּחֵ֖ם Exodus 17:10 (BHS)
6 of 177 attestations shown.
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Hebrew text from the Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology and lemmatization from the OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible (OSHB), CC BY 4.0. Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) lexicon, public domain.