Hebrew Lexicon Strong's Concordance Definition

Strong's H3899: לֶחֶם (lechem) Definition

Strong's number
H3899
Lemma
לֶחֶם
Transliteration
lechem
Pronunciation
lekh'-em
Strong's definition
food (for man or beast), especially bread, or grain (for making it) (shew-) bread, [idiom] eat, food, fruit, loaf, meat, victuals. from H3898 (לָחַם); See also H1036 (בֵּית לְעַפְרָה)

276 instances of the word לֶחֶם lechem (H3899)


  • Isaiah 55:2 - Wherefore do ye spend money not for that which is not bread and your labour not for that which satisfieth diligently diligently unto me and eat ye that which is good delight itself in fatness and let your soul

  • Isaiah 55:10 - cometh down For as the rain and the snow from heaven and returneth not thither but watereth the earth and maketh it bring forth and bud that it may give seed to the sower and bread to the eater

  • Isaiah 58:7 - Is it not to deal to the hungry thy bread the poor that are cast out and that thou bring to thy house when thou seest the naked that thou cover not thyself from thine own flesh him and that thou hide

  • Isaiah 65:25 - The wolf and the lamb shall feed together and the lion like the bullock shall eat straw shall be the serpent's and dust meat They shall not hurt nor destroy mountain in all my holy saith the LORD

  • Jeremiah 5:17 - And they shall eat up thine harvest and thy bread And they shall eat up which thy sons and thy daughters And they shall eat up thy flocks and thine herds And they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig trees they shall impoverish cities thy fenced trustedst wherein thou with the sword

  • Jeremiah 11:19 - But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter and I knew not that they had devised devices against me saying Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof and let us cut him off from the land of the living that his name may be no more remembered

  • Jeremiah 37:21 - commanded the king Then Zedekiah that they should commit Jeremiah in the court of the prison and that they should give a piece of bread him daily ' street out of the bakers were spent of bread in the city remained Jeremiah in the court of the prison

  • Jeremiah 38:9 - My lord the king have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet whom they have cast into the dungeon and he is like to die in the place for hunger where he is for there is no more bread in the city

  • Jeremiah 41:1 - month Now it came to pass in the seventh with him came that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah the son of Elishama of the seed royal and the princes of the king even ten unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah and there they did eat bread together to Mizpah

  • Jeremiah 42:14 - Saying into the land of Egypt No but we will go where we shall see no war the sound of the trumpet nor hear of bread nor have hunger and there will we dwell

  • Jeremiah 44:17 - But we will certainly But we will certainly whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own mouth to burn incense unto the queen of heaven and to pour out drink offerings But we will certainly we and our fathers our kings and our princes in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem for then had we plenty of victuals and were well no evil and saw

  • Jeremiah 52:6 - day of the month And in the fourth in the ninth day of the month was sore the famine in the city so that there was no bread for the people of the land

  • Jeremiah 52:33 - And changed garments his prison eat bread before and he did continually him all the days of his life

  • Job 3:24 - before I eat For my sighing cometh are poured out like the waters and my roarings

  • Job 6:7 - refused to touch The things that my soul are as my sorrowful meat

  • Job 15:23 - He wandereth abroad for bread saying Where is it he knoweth is ready at his hand that the day of darkness

  • Job 20:14 - Yet his meat in his bowels is turned it is the gall of asps within

  • Job 22:7 - Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink from the hungry and thou hast withholden bread

  • Job 24:5 - Behold as wild asses in the desert go they forth to their work rising betimes for a prey the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children

  • Job 27:14 - be multiplied If his children it is for the sword and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread