TBESH · H3898A
לָחַם · la.cham · to fight
1) to fight, do battle, make war 1a) (Qal) to fight, do battle 1b) (Niphal) to engage in battle, wage war
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la.cham H3898
לָחַם (la.cham) means “to fight” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
לָחַם Hebrew · H3898 177 tagged occurrences in 171 verses
Pronunciation guide: law-kham' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
Lexicon entries
TBESH · H3898B
לָחַם · la.cham · to feed on
(Qal) to eat, use as food
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Strong’s Hebrew dictionary
a primitive root; to feed on; figuratively, to consume; by implication, to battle (as destruction)
KJV glosses: devour, eat, [idiom] ever, fight(-ing), overcome, prevail, (make) war(-ring).
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How translators render H3898
Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| to fight | 34 |
| and fought | 17 |
| fought | 15 |
| and fight | 12 |
| fight | 10 |
| will fight | 6 |
| fighting | 5 |
| he waged war | 4 |
| they will fight | 4 |
| are fighting | 3 |
| they fought | 3 |
| and attacked | 2 |
| and to fight | 2 |
| eat | 2 |
| fights | 2 |
| had fought | 2 |
| he fought | 2 |
| to wage war | 2 |
| when he fought | 2 |
| who are fighting | 2 |
| who fought | 2 |
| and attack me | 1 |
| and fight him | 1 |
| and he fought | 1 |
| and let us fight | 1 |
| and made war | 1 |
| and ravaged | 1 |
| and waged war | 1 |
| as he battles | 1 |
| as he fights | 1 |
| assail | 1 |
| at war | 1 |
| attack | 1 |
| by waging war | 1 |
| feast | 1 |
| fight against those | 1 |
| he attacked | 1 |
| i have fought | 1 |
| in order to engage him in battle | 1 |
| in the battle | 1 |
| including his war | 1 |
| is fighting | 1 |
| is waging war | 1 |
| made war | 1 |
| make war | 1 |
| overcome him | 1 |
| overpower | 1 |
| so that we can fight | 1 |
| so we can fight | 1 |
| that is fighting | 1 |
| the attack | 1 |
| the king fighting | 1 |
| their attack | 1 |
| they eat | 1 |
| to dine | 1 |
| to fight him | 1 |
| waged war | 1 |
| was fighting | 1 |
| we should fight | 1 |
| were fighting | 1 |
| while fighting | 1 |
| who fight against me | 1 |
| you fight | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| to fight | 30 |
| and fought | 16 |
| fought | 14 |
| and fight | 11 |
| fight | 7 |
| and they shall fight | 5 |
| and they fought | 4 |
| that fight | 4 |
| and warred | 3 |
| he fought | 3 |
| that we may fight | 3 |
| against it and fought | 2 |
| eat | 2 |
| fighteth | 2 |
| him because he had fought | 2 |
| how he warred | 2 |
| made war | 2 |
| nor fight | 2 |
| shall fight | 2 |
| they fought | 2 |
| warring | 2 |
| when he fought | 2 |
| against me to fight | 1 |
| against them that fight | 1 |
| against whom ye fight | 1 |
| also shall fight | 1 |
| and devoured | 1 |
| and how he fought | 1 |
| and how he warred | 1 |
| and i myself will fight | 1 |
| and let me not eat | 1 |
| and made war | 1 |
| and we will fight | 1 |
| fighting | 1 |
| for me and fight | 1 |
| for they eat | 1 |
| had fought | 1 |
| he fighting | 1 |
| he shall fight | 1 |
| he that hath fought | 1 |
| him and fought | 1 |
| him to fight | 1 |
| him when he fought | 1 |
| himself that he might fight | 1 |
| i have fought | 1 |
| in making war | 1 |
| let us fight | 1 |
| make war | 1 |
| maketh war | 1 |
| neither fight | 1 |
| no more neither fought | 1 |
| not overcome | 1 |
| not prevail | 1 |
| or did he ever | 1 |
| so that they made no war | 1 |
| that fighteth | 1 |
| then fought | 1 |
| then he fought | 1 |
| though ye fight | 1 |
| to eat | 1 |
| to him and fought | 1 |
| to make war | 1 |
| to overcome | 1 |
| to war | 1 |
| us and fight | 1 |
| us and to fight | 1 |
| warred | 1 |
| when ye did fight | 1 |
| wherewith he fought | 1 |
| wherewith ye fight | 1 |
| who had fought | 1 |
| will he fight | 1 |
| with him and fought | 1 |
| with me fight | 1 |
| with us and fight | 1 |
| with you to fight | 1 |
| you he shall fight | 1 |
Verses containing H3898
Page 4 of 4. 171 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
- Jeremiah 1:19
· BSB · 1 occurrence
They will fight against you but will never overcome you, since I am with you to deliver you,” declares the LORD.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 15:20
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then I will make you a wall to this people, a fortified wall of bronze; they will fight against you but will not overcome you, for I am with you to save and deliver you, declares the LORD.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 21:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“Please inquire of the LORD on our behalf, since Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon is waging war against us. Perhaps the LORD will perform for us something like all His past wonders, so that Nebuchadnezzar will withdraw from us.”
Read word by word - Jeremiah 21:4
· BSB · 1 occurrence
this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘I will turn against you the weapons of war in your hands, with which you are fighting the king of Babylon and the Chaldeans who besiege you outside the wall, and I will assemble their forces in the center of this city.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 21:5
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And I Myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand and a mighty arm, with anger, fury, and great wrath.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 32:5
· BSB · 1 occurrence
He will take Zedekiah to Babylon, where he will stay until I attend to him, declares the LORD. If you fight against the Chaldeans, you will not succeed.’”
Read word by word - Jeremiah 32:24
· BSB · 1 occurrence
See how the siege ramps are mounted against the city to capture it. And by sword and famine and plague, the city has been given into the hands of the Chaldeans who are fighting against it. What You have spoken has happened, as You now see!
Read word by word - Jeremiah 32:29
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And the Chaldeans who are fighting against this city will come in, set it on fire, and burn it, along with the houses of those who provoked Me to anger by burning incense to Baal on their rooftops and by pouring out drink offerings to other gods.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 33:5
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The Chaldeans are coming to fight and to fill those places with the corpses of the men I will strike down in My anger and in My wrath. I have hidden My face from this city because of all its wickedness.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 34:1
· BSB · 1 occurrence
This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, all his army, all the earthly kingdoms under his control, and all the other nations were fighting against Jerusalem and all its surrounding cities.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 34:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
as the army of the king of Babylon was fighting against Jerusalem and the remaining cities of Judah—against Lachish and Azekah. For these were the only fortified cities remaining in Judah.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 34:22
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Behold, I am going to give the command, declares the LORD, and I will bring them back to this city. They will fight against it, capture it, and burn it down. And I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”
Read word by word - Jeremiah 37:8
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the Chaldeans will return and fight against this city. They will capture it and burn it down.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 37:10
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Indeed, if you were to strike down the entire army of the Chaldeans that is fighting against you, and only wounded men remained in their tents, they would still get up and burn this city down.”
Read word by word - Jeremiah 41:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
they took all their men and went to fight Ishmael son of Nethaniah. And they found him near the great pool in Gibeon.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 51:30
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The warriors of Babylon have stopped fighting; they sit in their strongholds. Their strength is exhausted; they have become like women. Babylon’s homes have been set ablaze, the bars of her gates are broken.
Read word by word - Daniel 10:20
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“Do you know why I have come to you?” he said. “I must return at once to fight against the prince of Persia, and when I have gone forth, behold, the prince of Greece will come.
Read word by word - Daniel 11:11
· BSB · 1 occurrence
In a rage, the king of the South will march out to fight the king of the North, who will raise a large army, but it will be delivered into the hand of his enemy.
Read word by word - Zechariah 10:5
· BSB · 1 occurrence
They will be like mighty men in battle, trampling the enemy in the mire of the streets. They will fight because the LORD is with them, and they will put the horsemen to shame.
Read word by word - Zechariah 14:3
· BSB · 2 occurrences
Then the LORD will go out to fight against those nations, as He fights in the day of battle.
Read word by word - Zechariah 14:14
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Judah will also fight at Jerusalem, and the wealth of all the surrounding nations will be collected—gold, silver, and apparel in great abundance.
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