Strong’s H3908 · Hebrew
לַחַשׁ
lachash · lakh'-ash
Origin from לָחַשׁ (H3907);
Meaning properly, a whisper, i.e. by implication, (in a good sense) a private prayer, (in a bad one) an incantation; concretely, an amulet
In the King James Version charmed, earring, enchantment, orator, prayer.
In 5 verses of the King James Version
- Ecclesiastes 10:11Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better.
- Isaiah 3:3The captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the counseller, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator.
- Isaiah 3:20The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the headbands, and the tablets, and the earrings,
- Isaiah 26:16LORD, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a prayer when thy chastening was upon them.
- Jeremiah 8:17For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the LORD.
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.