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Strong’s H3899 · Hebrew

לֶחֶם

lechem · lekh'-em

Origin from לָחַם (H3898); See also בֵּית לְעַפְרָה (H1036)

Meaning food (for man or beast), especially bread, or grain (for making it)

In the King James Version (shew-) bread, [idiom] eat, food, fruit, loaf, meat, victuals.

In 274 verses of the King James Version

151–200 of 274

  1. 1 Chronicles 16:3And he dealt to every one of Israel, both man and woman, to every one a loaf of bread, and a good piece of flesh, and a flagon of wine.
  2. 1 Chronicles 23:29Both for the shewbread, and for the fine flour for meat offering, and for the unleavened cakes, and for that which is baked in the pan, and for that which is fried, and for all manner of measure and size;
  3. 2 Chronicles 4:19And Solomon made all the vessels that were for the house of God, the golden altar also, and the tables whereon the shewbread was set;
  4. 2 Chronicles 13:11And they burn unto the LORD every morning and every evening burnt sacrifices and sweet incense: the shewbread also set they in order upon the pure table; and the candlestick of gold with the lamps thereof, to burn every evening: for we keep the charge of the LORD our God; but ye have forsaken him.
  5. 2 Chronicles 18:26And say, Thus saith the king, Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I return in peace.
  6. Ezra 10:6Then Ezra rose up from before the house of God, and went into the chamber of Johanan the son of Eliashib: and when he came thither, he did eat no bread, nor drink water: for he mourned because of the transgression of them that had been carried away.
  7. Nehemiah 5:14Moreover from the time that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year even unto the two and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes the king, that is, twelve years, I and my brethren have not eaten the bread of the governor.
  8. Nehemiah 5:15But the former governors that had been before me were chargeable unto the people, and had taken of them bread and wine, beside forty shekels of silver; yea, even their servants bare rule over the people: but so did not I, because of the fear of God.
  9. Nehemiah 5:18Now that which was prepared for me daily was one ox and six choice sheep; also fowls were prepared for me, and once in ten days store of all sorts of wine: yet for all this required not I the bread of the governor, because the bondage was heavy upon this people.
  10. Nehemiah 9:15And gavest them bread from heaven for their hunger, and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and promisedst them that they should go in to possess the land which thou hadst sworn to give them.
  11. Nehemiah 13:2Because they met not the children of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them, that he should curse them: howbeit our God turned the curse into a blessing.
  12. Job 3:24For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.
  13. Job 6:7The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat.
  14. Job 15:23He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
  15. Job 20:14Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.
  16. Job 22:7Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast withholden bread from the hungry.
  17. Job 24:5Behold, 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.
  18. Job 27:14If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
  19. Job 28:5As for the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire.
  20. Job 30:4Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.
  21. Job 33:20So that his life abhorreth bread, and his soul dainty meat.
  22. Job 42:11Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house: and they bemoaned him, and comforted him over all the evil that the LORD had brought upon him: every man also gave him a piece of money, and every one an earring of gold.
  23. Psalms 14:4Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.
  24. Psalms 37:25I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.
  25. Psalms 41:9Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me.
  26. Psalms 42:3My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?
  27. Psalms 53:4Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread: they have not called upon God.
  28. Psalms 78:20Behold, he smote the rock, that the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed; can he give bread also? can he provide flesh for his people?
  29. Psalms 78:25Man did eat angels’ food: he sent them meat to the full.
  30. Psalms 80:5Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.
  31. Psalms 102:4My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.
  32. Psalms 102:9For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,
  33. Psalms 104:14He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth;
  34. Psalms 104:15And wine that maketh glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face to shine, and bread which strengtheneth man’s heart.
  35. Psalms 105:16Moreover he called for a famine upon the land: he brake the whole staff of bread.
  36. Psalms 105:40The people asked, and he brought quails, and satisfied them with the bread of heaven.
  37. Psalms 127:2It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.
  38. Psalms 132:15I will abundantly bless her provision: I will satisfy her poor with bread.
  39. Psalms 136:25Who giveth food to all flesh: for his mercy endureth for ever.
  40. Psalms 146:7Which executeth judgment for the oppressed: which giveth food to the hungry. The LORD looseth the prisoners:
  41. Psalms 147:9He giveth to the beast his food, and to the young ravens which cry.
  42. Proverbs 4:17For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
  43. Proverbs 6:8Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.
  44. Proverbs 6:26For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.
  45. Proverbs 9:5Come, eat of my bread, and drink of the wine which I have mingled.
  46. Proverbs 9:17Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.
  47. Proverbs 12:9He that is despised, and hath a servant, is better than he that honoureth himself, and lacketh bread.
  48. Proverbs 12:11He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that followeth vain persons is void of understanding.
  49. Proverbs 20:13Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
  50. Proverbs 20:17Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.

From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.

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