Strong's Concordance lachem: perhaps war Original Word: לָחֶםPart of Speech: Noun Masculine Transliteration: lachem Phonetic Spelling: (law-khem') Definition: perhaps war NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom lacham Definition perhaps war NASB Translation war (1). Brown-Driver-Briggs לָחֶם noun [masculine] only in אָז לָחֶ֣ם שְׁעָרִים Judges 5:8 (so Masora; Manuscripts לָחֵ֣ם, לָחֶ֣ם), usually translated then was there war of ( = at) the gates, but improbable; text and meaning dubious; A ᵐ5L read is ὡς ἄρτον κρίθινον, whence BuRS 103 אָז לֶחֶם שְׂעֹרִים then they used to eat barley bread; but BuComm. {abbrev}שׂ ׳אָזַל ל the barley bread was exhausted; Mayer LambertRŠJ xxx, 115 אז לחמשׁ ערים then for (in) 5 citiesno shield was seen, etc.; other conjectures in KauAT; compare GFMon the passage Strong's Exhaustive Concordance war From lacham, battle -- war. see HEBREW lacham Forms and Transliterations לָחֶ֣ם לחם lā·ḥem laChem lāḥemLinks Interlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel TextsEnglishman's Concordance Judges 5:8 HEB: חֲדָשִׁ֔ים אָ֖ז לָחֶ֣ם שְׁעָרִ֑ים מָגֵ֤ן NAS: Then war [was] in the gates. KJV: gods; then [was] war in the gates: INT: New Then war the gates A shield |