לחם

Arabic

Noun

לחם • (transliteration needed) m

  1. Judeo-Arabic spelling of لَحْم (laḥm, “meat”)‎‎
    • c. 10th century, Saadia Gaon, Tafsir‎[1], Numbers 11:4:
      ואללפיף אלד֗ין פימא בינהם תשהו שהוה פרג֗ע בנו אסראיל איצ֗א מעהם ובכו וקאלו מן יטעמנא לחמא
      And the crowd who were among them felt a craving, and the Israelites also wept with them and said, Let us have meat!

Hebrew

Root
ל־ח־ם (l-kh-m)
9 terms
לחם

Etymology 1.1

Cognate with Arabic لَحْم (laḥm, “meat”), with the varying semantic developments being due to the differing agriculture and diets of the Arabian Peninsula and the Fertile Crescent. The verb follows from the noun and is usually employed to form figurae etymologicae.

Pronunciation

Noun

לֶחֶם • (lékhem) m (singular construct לֶחֶם־, Biblical Hebrew pausal form לָחֶם) [pattern: קֶטֶל]

  1. bread
  2. (archaic or poetic) food
  3. (poetic) grain from which bread is made
Declension
Declension of לֶחֶם
isolated forms with possessive pronouns
Number: State: form Person: singular plural
m f m f
singular indefinite לֶחֶם first לַחֲמִי לַחֲמֵנוּ
definite הַלֶּחֶם second לַחֲמְךָ לַחֲמֵךְ לֶחֶמְכֶם לֶחֶמְכֶן
construct לֶחֶם־ third לַחֲמוֹ לַחֲמָהּ לַחֲמָם לַחֲמָן
Derived terms

Etymology 1.2

Verb

לָחַם • (lakhám) (pa'al construction, future יִלְחַם)

  1. (Biblical Hebrew, poetic) to eat [with אֵת (et); or with בְּ־ (b'-)]
    • Tanach, Proverbs 4:17, with translation of the Jewish Publication Society:
      כִּי לָחֲמוּ לֶחֶם רֶשַׁע וְיֵין חֲמָסִים יִשְׁתּוּ׃
      For they eat the bread of wickedness, And drink the wine of violence.
  2. (figuratively) to inflict, wreak [with אֵת (et); or with בְּ־ (b'-)]
    • Tanach, Deuteronomy 32:24, with translation of the King James Version:
      מְזֵי רָעָב וּלְחֻמֵי רֶשֶׁף וְקֶטֶב מְרִירִי וְשֶׁן־בְּהֵמֹת אֲשַׁלַּח־בָּם עִם־חֲמַת זֹחֲלֵי עָפָר׃
      They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.

Etymology 2.1

Noun

לָחֶם • (lákhem) m

  1. combat, battle

Etymology 2.2

Verb

לָחַם • (lakhám) (pa'al construction)

  1. to fight
  • לׇחְמָה / לוחמה (lokhmá, “warfare”)

Etymology 3

Noun

לַחַם • (lákham) m

  1. solder (metal used for welding)

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