לָחוּם
lachum · flesh, food
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H3894 · appears 2 times in the Bible
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lachum (לָחוּם) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “flesh, food”.
Flesh, body; also food. A rare word of uncertain sense.
How to say it
la·chum
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- The flesh of the body; its exact sense is unclear.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
Where it appears
- Job 20:23
When he is about to fill his belly, he will send against him the burning of his anger, and rain it on him upon his flesh.
- Zephaniah 1:17
“And I will bring distress on human beings, and they will walk like the blind, for against YHWH they have sinned; and their blood will be poured out like dust, and their flesh like dung.”