H3898 · לָחַם
lâcham · law-kham' · fight, make war, overcome
H3898 (lâcham, pronounced law-kham') is the Hebrew word לָחַם in Strong’s dictionary: to feed on. It appears 177 times in 171 verses of the BSB (Yahweh).
Strong’s entry
- Original word
- לָחַם (Hebrew)
- Transliteration
- lâcham
- Pronunciation
- law-kham'
- Derivation
- a primitive root;
- Definition
- to feed on; figuratively, to consume; by implication, to battle (as destruction)
- Rendered in the KJV
- devour, eat, [idiom] ever, fight(-ing), overcome, prevail, (make) war(-ring).
In the Berean Standard Bible (Yahweh)
177 occurrences in 171 verses (175 with English words of their own, 2 in the original with no English word of their own).
How the BSB renders it
- “to fight” ×33
- “and fought” ×15
- “fought” ×14
- “and fight” ×11
- “fight” ×8
- “fighting” ×5
- “he waged war” ×4
- “will fight” ×4
By book
Exodus 6 · Numbers 4 · Deuteronomy 8 · Joshua 17 · Judges 28 · 1 Samuel 21 · 2 Samuel 9 · 1 Kings 9 · 2 Kings 12 · 1 Chronicles 3 · 2 Chronicles 14 · Nehemiah 3 · Psalms 5 · Proverbs 4 · Isaiah 7 · Jeremiah 16 · Daniel 2 · Zechariah 3
First 30 of 171 verses
- Exodus 1:10
- Exodus 14:14
- Exodus 14:25
- Exodus 17:8
- Exodus 17:9
- Exodus 17:10
- Numbers 21:1
- Numbers 21:23
- Numbers 21:26
- Numbers 22:11
- Deuteronomy 1:30
- Deuteronomy 1:41
- Deuteronomy 1:42
- Deuteronomy 3:22
- Deuteronomy 20:4
- Deuteronomy 20:10
- Deuteronomy 20:19
- Deuteronomy 32:24
- Joshua 9:2
- Joshua 10:5
- Joshua 10:14
- Joshua 10:25
- Joshua 10:29
- Joshua 10:31
- Joshua 10:34
- Joshua 10:36
- Joshua 10:38
- Joshua 10:42
- Joshua 11:5
- Joshua 19:47
Related words
Numbers that share a root with H3898.