TBESH · H3899G
לֶ֫חֶם · le.chem · food
: food(eating) 1) bread, food, grain 1a) bread 1a1) bread 1a2) bread-corn 1b) food (in general)
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le.chem H3899
לֶ֫חֶם (le.chem) means “food” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
לֶ֫חֶם Hebrew · H3899 298 tagged occurrences in 277 verses
Pronunciation guide: lekh'-em Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
Lexicon entries
TBESH · H3899H
לֶ֫חֶם · le.chem · food: bread
: bread/loaf 1) bread, food, grain 1a) bread 1a1) bread 1a2) bread-corn 1b) food (in general)
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TBESH · H3899I
לֶ֫חֶם · le.chem · food: allowance
: allowance 1) bread, food, grain 1a) bread 1a1) bread 1a2) bread-corn 1b) food (in general)
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Strong’s Hebrew dictionary
from H3898 (לָחַם); See also H1036 (בֵּית לְעַפְרָה) food (for man or beast), especially bread, or grain (for making it)
KJV glosses: (shew-) bread, [idiom] eat, food, fruit, loaf, meat, victuals.
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How translators render H3899
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 |
|---|---|
| bread | 52 |
| food | 43 |
| of bread | 24 |
| the bread | 20 |
| the food | 11 |
| with food | 11 |
| your bread | 9 |
| of food | 7 |
| and bread | 6 |
| his bread | 5 |
| a meal | 4 |
| for bread | 4 |
| loaves of bread | 4 |
| my bread | 4 |
| with the bread | 4 |
| and food | 3 |
| and the bread | 3 |
| any food | 3 |
| his food | 3 |
| as food | 2 |
| for food | 2 |
| of the showbread | 2 |
| only bread | 2 |
| some bread | 2 |
| the meal | 2 |
| their bread | 2 |
| with bread | 2 |
| a feast | 1 |
| and his bread | 1 |
| and the food | 1 |
| any bread | 1 |
| anything | 1 |
| are his food | 1 |
| as much food | 1 |
| but the food | 1 |
| food however | 1 |
| food to me | 1 |
| for the bread | 1 |
| for the showbread | 1 |
| give him food | 1 |
| grain for bread | 1 |
| her food | 1 |
| in exchange for food | 1 |
| into bread | 1 |
| is food | 1 |
| is the bread | 1 |
| its provisions | 1 |
| like bread | 1 |
| like the bread | 1 |
| loaves | 1 |
| my food | 1 |
| of showbread | 1 |
| or any bread | 1 |
| our bread | 1 |
| our own bread | 1 |
| provisions | 1 |
| some food | 1 |
| something | 1 |
| their food | 1 |
| they will be like bread for us | 1 |
| those who eat your bread | 1 |
| to eat | 1 |
| to feed you | 1 |
| were their food | 1 |
| with its fruit | 1 |
| you with food | 1 |
| your food | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| bread | 80 |
| of bread | 28 |
| the bread | 16 |
| no bread | 10 |
| food | 9 |
| with bread | 9 |
| thy bread | 7 |
| meat | 6 |
| and bread | 5 |
| loaves | 5 |
| my bread | 5 |
| and the bread | 3 |
| for bread | 3 |
| him bread | 3 |
| his bread | 3 |
| of the bread | 3 |
| them bread | 3 |
| them with bread | 3 |
| them with the bread | 3 |
| your bread | 3 |
| him with bread | 2 |
| his food | 2 |
| neither bread | 2 |
| not the bread | 2 |
| of my bread | 2 |
| the food | 2 |
| their meat | 2 |
| a feast | 1 |
| and of the bread | 1 |
| and the shewbread | 1 |
| and there is bread | 1 |
| and there was no bread | 1 |
| and thy bread | 1 |
| as much bread | 1 |
| both for the shewbread | 1 |
| by bread | 1 |
| for the bread | 1 |
| for the food | 1 |
| for the shewbread | 1 |
| for their bread | 1 |
| for there was no bread | 1 |
| for thy food | 1 |
| give him bread | 1 |
| have been my meat | 1 |
| her food | 1 |
| her meat | 1 |
| him food | 1 |
| him victuals | 1 |
| his meat | 1 |
| i eat | 1 |
| it with the bread | 1 |
| like bread | 1 |
| may have food | 1 |
| me bread | 1 |
| me meat | 1 |
| me with food | 1 |
| my meat | 1 |
| neither yet bread | 1 |
| no meat | 1 |
| no more bread | 1 |
| nor that his bread | 1 |
| not bread | 1 |
| not i the bread | 1 |
| of his bread | 1 |
| of his meat | 1 |
| of them bread | 1 |
| of thy bread | 1 |
| of victuals | 1 |
| of your bread | 1 |
| or of the bread | 1 |
| our bread | 1 |
| our own bread | 1 |
| over the shewbread | 1 |
| provision | 1 |
| shewbread | 1 |
| so that there was no bread | 1 |
| that it may be on the bread | 1 |
| the meat | 1 |
| the shewbread | 1 |
| thee bread | 1 |
| their bread | 1 |
| themselves for bread | 1 |
| there but the shewbread | 1 |
| there was bread | 1 |
| thereof and the shewbread | 1 |
| thereof shall be for food | 1 |
| this our bread | 1 |
| thou not the bread | 1 |
| to meat | 1 |
| until all the bread | 1 |
| unto them as the bread | 1 |
| upon them and all the bread | 1 |
| us bread | 1 |
| whereon the shewbread | 1 |
| whereupon the shewbread | 1 |
| which leaveth no food | 1 |
| with meat | 1 |
| with the bread | 1 |
| with the fruit | 1 |
| with their bread | 1 |
| withal and bread | 1 |
| you not with bread | 1 |
| you the bread | 1 |
Verses containing H3899
Page 2 of 6. 277 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
- Leviticus 21:17
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“Say to Aaron, ‘For the generations to come, none of your descendants who has a physical defect may approach to offer the food of his God.
Read word by word - Leviticus 21:21
· BSB · 1 occurrence
No descendant of Aaron the priest who has a defect shall approach to present the food offerings to the LORD. Since he has a defect, he is not to come near to offer the food of his God.
Read word by word - Leviticus 21:22
· BSB · 1 occurrence
He may eat the most holy food of his God as well as the holy food,
Read word by word - Leviticus 22:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
When the sun has set, he will become clean, and then he may eat from the sacred offerings, for they are his food.
Read word by word - Leviticus 22:11
· BSB · 1 occurrence
But if a priest buys a slave with his own money, or if a slave is born in his household, that slave may eat his food.
Read word by word - Leviticus 22:13
· BSB · 1 occurrence
But if a priest’s daughter with no children becomes widowed or divorced and returns to her father’s house, she may share her father’s food as in her youth. But no outsider may share it.
Read word by word - Leviticus 22:25
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Neither you nor a foreigner shall present food to your God from any such animal. They will not be accepted on your behalf, because they are deformed and flawed.’”
Read word by word - Leviticus 23:14
· BSB · 1 occurrence
You must not eat any bread or roasted or new grain until the very day you have brought this offering to your God. This is to be a permanent statute for the generations to come, wherever you live.
Read word by word - Leviticus 23:17
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Bring two loaves of bread from your dwellings as a wave offering, each made from two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour, baked with leaven, as the firstfruits to the LORD.
Read word by word - Leviticus 23:18
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Along with the bread you are to present seven unblemished male lambs a year old, one young bull, and two rams. They will be a burnt offering to the LORD, together with their grain offerings and drink offerings—a food offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.
Read word by word - Leviticus 23:20
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The priest is to wave the lambs as a wave offering before the LORD, together with the bread of the firstfruits. The bread and the two lambs shall be holy to the LORD for the priest.
Read word by word - Leviticus 24:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And you are to place pure frankincense near each row, so that it may serve as a memorial portion for the bread, a food offering to the LORD.
Read word by word - Leviticus 26:5
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Your threshing will continue until the grape harvest, and the grape harvest will continue until sowing time; you will have your fill of food to eat and will dwell securely in your land.
Read word by word - Leviticus 26:26
· BSB · 3 occurrences
When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in a single oven and dole out your bread by weight, so that you will eat but not be satisfied.
Read word by word - Numbers 4:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Over the table of the Presence they are to spread a blue cloth and place the plates and cups on it, along with the bowls and pitchers for the drink offering. The regular bread offering is to remain on it.
Read word by word - Numbers 14:9
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Only do not rebel against the LORD, and do not be afraid of the people of the land, for they will be like bread for us. Their protection has been removed, and the LORD is with us. Do not be afraid of them!”
Read word by word - Numbers 15:19
· BSB · 1 occurrence
and you eat the food of the land, you shall lift up an offering to the LORD.
Read word by word - Numbers 21:5
· BSB · 2 occurrences
and spoke against God and against Moses: “Why have you led us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? There is no bread or water, and we detest this wretched food!”
Read word by word - Numbers 28:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“Command the Israelites and say to them: See that you present to Me at its appointed time the food for My food offerings, as a pleasing aroma to Me.
Read word by word - Numbers 28:24
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Offer the same food each day for seven days as a food offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD. It is to be offered with its drink offering and the regular burnt offering.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 8:3
· BSB · 1 occurrence
He humbled you, and in your hunger He gave you manna to eat, which neither you nor your fathers had known, so that you might understand that man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 8:9
· BSB · 1 occurrence
a land where you will eat food without scarcity, where you will lack nothing; a land whose rocks are iron and whose hills are ready to be mined for copper.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 9:9
· BSB · 1 occurrence
When I went up on the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that the LORD made with you, I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I ate no bread and drank no water.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 9:18
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, as I had done the first time. I did not eat bread or drink water because of all the sin you had committed in doing what was evil in the sight of the LORD and provoking Him to anger.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 10:18
· BSB · 1 occurrence
He executes justice for the fatherless and widow, and He loves the foreigner, giving him food and clothing.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 16:3
· BSB · 1 occurrence
You must not eat leavened bread with it; for seven days you are to eat with it unleavened bread, the bread of affliction, because you left the land of Egypt in haste—so that you may remember for the rest of your life the day you left the land of Egypt.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 23:4
· BSB · 1 occurrence
For they did not meet you with food and water on your way out of Egypt, and they hired Balaam son of Beor from Pethor in Aram-naharaim to curse you.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 23.5
- Deuteronomy 29:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
You ate no bread and drank no wine or strong drink, so that you might know that I am the LORD your God.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 29.5
- Joshua 9:5
· BSB · 1 occurrence
They put worn, patched sandals on their feet and threadbare clothing on their bodies, and their whole supply of bread was dry and moldy.
Read word by word - Joshua 9:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
This bread of ours was warm when we packed it at home on the day we left to come to you. But look, it is now dry and moldy.
Read word by word - Judges 7:13
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And as Gideon arrived, a man was telling his friend about a dream. “Behold, I had a dream,” he said, “and I saw a loaf of barley bread come tumbling into the Midianite camp. It struck the tent so hard that the tent overturned and collapsed.”
Read word by word - Judges 8:5
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So Gideon said to the men of Succoth, “Please give my troops some bread, for they are exhausted, and I am still pursuing Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian.”
Read word by word - Judges 8:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
But the leaders of Succoth asked, “Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna already in your possession, that we should give bread to your army?”
Read word by word - Judges 8:15
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And Gideon went to the men of Succoth and said, “Here are Zebah and Zalmunna, about whom you taunted me, saying, ‘Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna already in your possession, that we should give bread to your weary men?’”
Read word by word - Judges 13:16
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And the angel of the LORD replied, “Even if I stay, I will not eat your food. But if you prepare a burnt offering, offer it to the LORD.” For Manoah did not know that it was the angel of the LORD.
Read word by word - Judges 19:5
· BSB · 1 occurrence
On the fourth day, they got up early in the morning and prepared to depart, but the girl’s father said to his son-in-law, “Refresh your heart with a morsel of bread, and then you can go.”
Read word by word - Judges 19:19
· BSB · 1 occurrence
even though there is both straw and feed for our donkeys, and bread and wine for me and the maidservant and young man with me. There is nothing that we, your servants, lack.”
Read word by word - Ruth 1:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
When Naomi heard in Moab that the LORD had attended to His people by providing them with food, she and her daughters-in-law prepared to leave the land of Moab.
Read word by word - Ruth 2:14
· BSB · 1 occurrence
At mealtime Boaz said to her, “Come over here; have some bread and dip it into the vinegar sauce.” So she sat down beside the harvesters, and he offered her roasted grain, and she ate and was satisfied and had some left over.
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 2:5
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The well-fed hire themselves out for food, but the starving hunger no more. The barren woman gives birth to seven, but she who has many sons pines away.
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 2:36
· BSB · 2 occurrences
And everyone left in your house will come and bow down to him for a piece of silver or a morsel of bread, pleading, “Please appoint me to some priestly office so that I can eat a piece of bread.”’”
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 9:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“If we do go,” Saul replied, “what can we give the man? For the bread in our packs is gone, and there is no gift to take to the man of God. What do we have?”
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 10:3
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then you will go on from there until you come to the Oak of Tabor. Three men going up to God at Bethel will meet you there, one carrying three young goats, another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a skin of wine.
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 10:4
· BSB · 1 occurrence
They will greet you and give you two loaves of bread, which you will accept from their hands.
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 14:24
· BSB · 2 occurrences
Now the men of Israel were in distress that day, for Saul had placed the troops under an oath, saying, “Cursed is the man who eats any food before evening, before I have taken vengeance on my enemies.” So none of the troops tasted any food.
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 14:28
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then one of the soldiers told him, “Your father bound the troops with a solemn oath, saying, ‘Cursed is the man who eats food today.’ That is why the people are faint.”
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 16:20
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And Jesse took a donkey loaded with bread, a skin of wine, and one young goat and sent them to Saul with his son David.
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 17:17
· BSB · 1 occurrence
One day Jesse said to his son David, “Take this ephah of roasted grain and these ten loaves of bread for your brothers and hurry to their camp.
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 20:24
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So David hid in the field, and when the New Moon had come, the king sat down to eat.
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 20:27
· BSB · 1 occurrence
But on the day after the New Moon, the second day, David’s place was still empty, and Saul asked his son Jonathan, “Why hasn’t the son of Jesse come to the meal either yesterday or today?”
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