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 · 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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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.

BSB rendering counts
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

KJV rendering counts
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

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1 Samuel 20:34 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Jonathan got up from the table in fierce anger and did not eat any food that second day of the month, for he was grieved by his father’s shameful treatment of David.
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1 Samuel 21:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Now then, what do you have on hand? Give me five loaves of bread, or whatever can be found.”
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Source alternate reference: 21.4
1 Samuel 21:4 · BSB · 2 occurrences
“There is no common bread on hand,” the priest replied, “but there is some consecrated bread—provided that the young men have kept themselves from women.”
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Source alternate reference: 21.5
1 Samuel 21:6 · BSB · 3 occurrences
So the priest gave him the consecrated bread, since there was no bread there but the Bread of the Presence, which had been removed from before the LORD and replaced with hot bread on the day it was taken away.
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Source alternate reference: 21.7
1 Samuel 22:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And Saul asked him, “Why have you and the son of Jesse conspired against me? You gave him bread and a sword and inquired of God for him so that he could rise up against me to lie in wait, as he is doing today.”
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1 Samuel 25:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Why should I take my bread and water and the meat I have slaughtered for my shearers, and give them to these men whose origin I do not know?”
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1 Samuel 25:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five butchered sheep, five seahs of roasted grain, a hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs. She loaded them on donkeys
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1 Samuel 28:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Immediately Saul fell flat on the ground, terrified by the words of Samuel. And his strength was gone, because he had not eaten anything all that day and night.
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1 Samuel 28:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Now please listen to your servant and let me set a morsel of bread before you so you may eat and have the strength to go on your way.”
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1 Samuel 30:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Now his men found an Egyptian in the field and brought him to David. They gave the man water to drink and food to eat—
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1 Samuel 30:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
a piece of a fig cake and two clusters of raisins. So he ate and was revived, for he had not had any food or water for three days and three nights.
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2 Samuel 3:29 · BSB · 1 occurrence
May it whirl over the head of Joab and over the entire house of his father, and may the house of Joab never be without one having a discharge or skin disease, or one who leans on a staff or falls by the sword or lacks food.”
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2 Samuel 3:35 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Then all the people came and urged David to eat something while it was still day, but David took an oath, saying, “May God punish me, and ever so severely, if I taste bread or anything else before the sun sets!”
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2 Samuel 6:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then he distributed to every man and woman among the multitude of Israel a loaf of bread, a date cake, and a raisin cake. And all the people departed, each to his own home.
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2 Samuel 9:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“Do not be afraid,” said David, “for surely I will show you kindness for the sake of your father Jonathan. I will restore to you all the land of your grandfather Saul, and you will always eat at my table.”
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2 Samuel 9:10 · BSB · 2 occurrences
You and your sons and servants are to work the ground for him and bring in the harvest, so that your master’s grandson may have food to eat. But Mephibosheth, your master’s grandson, is always to eat at my table.” Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.
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2 Samuel 12:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The elders of his household stood beside him to help him up from the ground, but he was unwilling and would not eat anything with them.
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2 Samuel 12:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then David got up from the ground, washed and anointed himself, changed his clothes, and went into the house of the LORD and worshiped. Then he went to his own house, and at his request they set food before him, and he ate.
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2 Samuel 12:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“What is this you have done?” his servants asked. “While the child was alive, you fasted and wept, but when he died, you got up and ate.”
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2 Samuel 13:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Jonadab told him, “Lie down on your bed and pretend you are ill. When your father comes to see you, say to him, ‘Please let my sister Tamar come and give me something to eat. Let her prepare it in my sight so I may watch her and eat it from her hand.’”
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2 Samuel 16:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When David had gone a little beyond the summit, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth was there to meet him. He had a pair of saddled donkeys loaded with two hundred loaves of bread, a hundred clusters of raisins, a hundred summer fruits, and a skin of wine.
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2 Samuel 16:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“Why do you have these?” asked the king. Ziba replied, “The donkeys are for the king’s household to ride, the bread and summer fruit are for the young men to eat, and the wine is to refresh those who become exhausted in the wilderness.”
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1 Kings 4:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Solomon’s provisions for a single day were thirty cors of fine flour, sixty cors of meal,
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Source alternate reference: 5.2
1 Kings 5:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
My servants will haul the logs from Lebanon to the Sea, and I will float them as rafts by sea to the place you specify. There I will separate the logs, and you can take them away. And in exchange, you can meet my needs by providing my household with food.”
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Source alternate reference: 5.23
1 Kings 7:48 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Solomon also made all the furnishings for the house of the LORD: the golden altar; the golden table on which was placed the Bread of the Presence;
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1 Kings 11:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Hadad and his men set out from Midian and went to Paran. They took men from Paran with them and went to Egypt, to Pharaoh king of Egypt, who gave Hadad a house and land and provided him with food.
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1 Kings 13:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But the man of God replied, “If you were to give me half your possessions, I still would not go with you, nor would I eat bread or drink water in this place.
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1 Kings 13:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For this is what I was commanded by the word of the LORD: ‘You must not eat bread or drink water or return by the way you came.’”
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1 Kings 13:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So the prophet said to the man of God, “Come home with me and eat some bread.”
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1 Kings 13:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But the man replied, “I cannot go home with you, and I will not eat bread or drink water with you in this place.
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1 Kings 13:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For I have been told by the word of the LORD: ‘You must not eat bread or drink water there or return by the way you came.’”
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1 Kings 13:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the prophet replied, “I too am a prophet like you, and an angel spoke to me by the word of the LORD, saying, ‘Bring him back with you to your house, so that he may eat bread and drink water.’” The old prophet was lying to him,
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1 Kings 13:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence
but the man of God went back with him, ate bread in his house, and drank water.
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1 Kings 13:22 · BSB · 2 occurrences
but you went back and ate bread and drank water in the place where He told you not to do so, your body shall never reach the tomb of your fathers.’”
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1 Kings 13:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And after the man of God had finished eating and drinking, the old prophet who had brought him back saddled the donkey for him.
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1 Kings 14:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Take with you ten loaves of bread, some cakes, and a jar of honey, and go to him. He will tell you what will become of the boy.”
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1 Kings 17:6 · BSB · 2 occurrences
The ravens would bring him bread and meat in the morning and evening, and he would drink from the brook.
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1 Kings 17:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And as she was going to get it, he called to her and said, “Please bring me a piece of bread.”
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1 Kings 18:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
for when Jezebel had slaughtered the prophets of the LORD, Obadiah had taken a hundred prophets and hidden them, fifty men per cave, providing them with food and water.)
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1 Kings 18:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Was it not reported to my lord what I did when Jezebel slaughtered the prophets of the LORD? I hid a hundred prophets of the LORD, fifty men per cave, and I provided them with food and water.
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1 Kings 21:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So Ahab went to his palace, sullen and angry because Naboth the Jezreelite had told him, “I will not give you the inheritance of my fathers.” He lay down on his bed, turned his face away, and refused to eat.
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1 Kings 21:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Soon his wife Jezebel came in and asked, “Why are you so sullen that you refuse to eat?”
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1 Kings 21:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But his wife Jezebel said to him, “Do you not reign over Israel? Get up, eat some food, and be cheerful, for I will get you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.”
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1 Kings 22:27 · BSB · 1 occurrence
and tell them that this is what the king says: ‘Put this man in prison and feed him only bread and water until I return safely.’”
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2 Kings 4:8 · BSB · 2 occurrences
One day Elisha went to Shunem, and a prominent woman who lived there persuaded him to have a meal. So whenever he would pass by, he would stop there to eat.
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2 Kings 4:42 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Now a man from Baal-shalishah came to the man of God with a sack of twenty loaves of barley bread from the first ripe grain. “Give it to the people to eat,” said Elisha.
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2 Kings 6:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“Do not kill them,” he replied. “Would you kill those you have captured with your own sword or bow? Set food and water before them, that they may eat and drink and then return to their master.”
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2 Kings 18:32 · BSB · 1 occurrence
until I come and take you away to a land like your own—a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and honey—so that you may live and not die. But do not listen to Hezekiah, for he misleads you when he says, ‘The LORD will deliver us.’
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2 Kings 25:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
By the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine in the city was so severe that the people of the land had no food.
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2 Kings 25:29 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So Jehoiachin changed out of his prison clothes, and he dined regularly at the king’s table for the rest of his life.
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