3859. laham

Lexicon

laham: To fight, to do battle, to wage war

Original Word: לָהַם
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: laham
Pronunciation: lah-ham
Phonetic Spelling: (law-ham')
KJV: wound
NASB: dainty morsels
Word Origin: [a primitive root]

1. (properly) to burn in, i.e. (figuratively) to rankle

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

wound

A primitive root; properly, to burn in, i.e. (figuratively) to rankle -- wound.

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin
a prim. root
Definition
to swallow greedily
NASB Translation
dainty morsels (2).

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[לָהַם] verb swallow greedily (= Arabic ; Di^{Lex, Ethiopic 25} compare Ethiopic ox, cow); — only

Hithpa`el Participle מִתְלַהֲמִים Proverbs 18:8 i.e. bits greedily swallowed, dainties, = Proverbs 26:22, simile of tale-bearer's words.

Forms and Transliterations

כְּמִֽתְלַהֲמִ֑ים כמתלהמים kə·miṯ·la·hă·mîm kemitlahaMim kəmiṯlahămîm

Englishman's Concordance

Proverbs 18:8
HEB: דִּבְרֵ֣י נִ֭רְגָּן כְּמִֽתְלַהֲמִ֑ים וְ֝הֵ֗ם יָרְד֥וּ
NAS: of a whisperer are like dainty morsels, And they go down
KJV: of a talebearer [are] as wounds, and they go down
INT: the words of a talebearer dainty and they go

Proverbs 26:22
HEB: דִּבְרֵ֣י נִ֭רְגָּן כְּמִֽתְלַהֲמִ֑ים וְ֝הֵ֗ם יָרְד֥וּ
NAS: of a whisperer are like dainty morsels, And they go down
KJV: of a talebearer [are] as wounds, and they go down
INT: the words of a talebearer dainty and they go

2 Occurrences

Strong's Hebrew 3859
2 Occurrences

kə·miṯ·la·hă·mîm — 2 Occ.