Hebrew Lexicon Strong's Concordance Definition

Strong's H3898: לָחַם (lâcham) Definition

Strong's number
H3898
Lemma
לָחַם
Transliteration
lâcham
Pronunciation
law-kham'
Strong's definition
to feed on; figuratively, to consume; by implication, to battle (as destruction) devour, eat, [idiom] ever, fight(-ing), overcome, prevail, (make) war(-ring). a primitive root;

168 instances of the word לָחַם lâcham (H3898)


  • 1 Samuel 17:33 - said And Saul to David Thou art not able against this Philistine to fight with him for thou art but a youth and he a man of war from his youth

  • 1 Samuel 18:17 - said And Saul to David daughter Behold my elder Merab her will I give thee to wife only be thou valiant for me and fight battles the LORD'S And Saul said Let not mine hand Let not mine hand of the Philistines

  • 1 Samuel 19:8 - again And there was war went out and David and fought with the Philistines and slew slaughter them with a great and they fled from

  • 1 Samuel 23:1 - Then they told David saying Behold the Philistines fight against Keilah and they rob the threshingfloors

  • 1 Samuel 23:5 - So David of Keilah and fought with the Philistines and brought away their cattle and smote slaughter them with a great saved So David the inhabitants of Keilah

  • 1 Samuel 25:28 - I pray thee forgive the trespass of thine handmaid make make for the LORD because my lord house a sure the battles for the LORD because my lord fighteth and evil hath not been found in thee all thy days

  • 1 Samuel 28:1 - And it came to pass in those days gathered that the Philistines their armies for warfare to fight with Israel said And Achish unto David Know Know that thou shalt go out their armies

  • 1 Samuel 28:15 - answered And Samuel And Saul Why hast thou disquieted me to bring me up answered And Saul distressed I am sore for the Philistines make war against me and God is departed from me and answereth me no more neither by prophets nor by dreams therefore I have called thee that thou mayest make known unto me what I shall do

  • 1 Samuel 29:8 - said And David unto Achish But what have I done and what hast thou found in thy servant so long as I have been with thee so long as that I may not go fight against the enemies of my lord the king

  • 1 Samuel 31:1 - Now the Philistines fought against Israel fled against Israel from before Now the Philistines and fell down slain in mount Gilboa

  • 2 Chronicles 11:1 - was come And when Rehoboam to Jerusalem he gathered of the house of Judah and Benjamin an hundred and fourscore thousand chosen men which were warriors to fight against Israel again the kingdom And when Rehoboam

  • 2 Chronicles 11:4 - Thus saith of the LORD Ye shall not go up nor fight against your brethren and returned every man to his house is done for this thing of me And they obeyed for this thing of the LORD and returned from going against Jeroboam

  • 2 Chronicles 13:12 - himself is with us for our captain And behold God and his priests trumpets with sounding to cry alarm against you O children of Israel fight ye not against the LORD And behold God of your fathers for ye shall not prosper

  • 2 Chronicles 17:10 - And the fear of the LORD fell upon all the kingdoms of the lands that were round about Judah so that they made no war against Jehoshaphat

  • 2 Chronicles 18:30 - Now the king of Syria had commanded the captains of the chariots that were with him saying Fight ye not with small or great Now the king of Israel

  • 2 Chronicles 18:31 - saw And it came to pass when the captains of the chariots Jehoshaphat that they said It is the king of Israel Therefore they compassed about him to fight cried out Jehoshaphat and the LORD helped moved him and God

  • 2 Chronicles 20:17 - Ye shall not need to fight in this battle set yourselves stand ye still and see the salvation of the LORD with you O Judah and Jerusalem fear not nor be dismayed to morrow go out against of the LORD

  • 2 Chronicles 20:29 - And the fear of God was on all the kingdoms of those countries when they had heard fought that the LORD against the enemies of Israel

  • 2 Chronicles 22:6 - And he returned to be healed at Jezreel because of the wounds which were given him at Ramah when he fought with Hazael king of Syria And Azariah the son Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Jehoram the son of Ahab at Jezreel because he was sick

  • 2 Chronicles 26:6 - And he went forth and warred against the Philistines and brake down and the wall of Gath and the wall of Jabneh and the wall about Ashdod and built cities about Ashdod against the Philistines