lachach · lick up

What it means

lachach (לָחַךְ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “lick up”.

Lick, pass the tongue over. In Numbers 22:4, to devour everything as an ox eats the grass.

How to say it

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

1. Pass the tongue over; consume everything as an ox does grass; "bite the dust": be humbled.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• they will lick ×2
• will lick ×2
• it licked up ×1
• licks up ×1

Where it appears

• Numbers×2
• 1 Kings×1
• Psalms×1
• Isaiah×1
• Micah×1

• Numbers 22:4

  And Moab said to the elders of Midian, “Now this assembly will lick up all that is around us, as the ox licks up the green growth of the field.” And Balak son of Zippor was king of Moab at that time.

• 1 Kings 18:38

  Then the fire of YHWH fell and consumed the burnt offering and the wood and the stones and the dust, and the water that was in the trench it licked up.

• Psalms 72:9

  Before him the desert dwellers will kneel, and his enemies will lick the dust.

• Isaiah 49:23

  And kings will be your foster fathers, and their princesses your nursing mothers; with their faces to the ground they will bow down to you, and the dust of your feet they will lick; and you will know that I am YHWH, that those who wait for me will not be ashamed.”

• Micah 7:17

  They will lick dust like the serpent, like the crawling things of the earth; they will come trembling out of their enclosures; before YHWH our Elohim they will tremble in dread, and they will be afraid of you.

And 1 more times.