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Lechi: Lehi

Original Word: לֶחִי
Part of Speech: Proper Name Location
Transliteration: Lechiy
Pronunciation: LEH-khee
Phonetic Spelling: (lekh'-ee)
KJV: Lehi
NASB: Lehi
Word Origin: [a form of H3895 (לְחִי - cheek)]

1. Lechi, a place in Israel

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
Lehi

A form of lchiy; Lechi, a place in Palestine -- Lehi. Compare also Ramath Lechiy.

see HEBREW lchiy

see HEBREW Ramath Lechiy

NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
from the same as lechi
Definition
a place probably in Judah
NASB Translation
Lehi (4).

Brown-Driver-Briggs
II. לְחִי proper name, of a location scene of an exploit of Samson; — ׳ל Judges 15:19 (twice in verse) (ᵐ5 Σιαγων), לֶ֔חִי Judges 15:14; with article בַּלֶּחי Judges 15:9 (ᵐ5 Λευει, ᵐ5L Λεχει), compare רָ֫מַת לֶ֑חִי Judges 15:17 = height of Lehi (explanation as from לְחִי jawbone, compare GFM, ᵐ5 Ἀναίρεσις σιαγόνος also 2 Samuel 23:11, where read לֶחְיָה to Lehi, for לַחַיָּה, see II. חַיָּה, p. 2Sam 31:2above; (ᵐ5 θηρία; ᵐ5L σιαγόνα). It must have lain in the Shephelah, near the border of the hill-country of Judah (BuhlGeogr. 91); site unknown; conjectures are cited and criticized by GFMJudg 15, 19 q. see

לחח (√ of following; compare Ethiopic . II. I. moisten, cool; be moistened DiLex. 30; Late Hebrew לִחְלַח Pilpal moisten thoroughly, Aramaic לַחְלַח id., Late Hebrew לַח moist, fresh; לֵיחָה moisture, freshness, etc.)

Forms and Transliterations
בַּלֶּ֔חִי בַּלֶּֽחִי׃ בלחי בלחי׃ לֶ֔חִי לחי bal·le·ḥî balLechi balleḥî le·ḥî Lechi leḥî
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Englishman's Concordance
Judges 15:9
HEB: בִּיהוּדָ֑ה וַיִּנָּטְשׁ֖וּ בַּלֶּֽחִי׃
NAS: in Judah, and spread out in Lehi.
KJV: and spread themselves in Lehi.
INT: Judah and spread Lehi

Judges 15:14
HEB: בָ֣א עַד־ לֶ֔חִי וּפְלִשְׁתִּ֖ים הֵרִ֣יעוּ
NAS: When he came to Lehi, the Philistines
KJV: [And] when he came unto Lehi, the Philistines
INT: came against to Lehi the Philistines shouted

Judges 15:19
HEB: הַקּוֹרֵא֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר בַּלֶּ֔חִי עַ֖ד הַיּ֥וֹם
NAS: the hollow place that is in Lehi so that water
KJV: thereof Enhakkore, which [is] in Lehi unto this day.
INT: En-hakkore which Lehi against day

3 Occurrences

Strong's Hebrew 3896
3 Occurrences


bal·le·ḥî — 2 Occ.
le·ḥî — 1 Occ.

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