STRONGS NUMBER H3894


Word Summary
lechum: intestines, bowels
Original Word: לָחוּם
Transliteration: lechum
Phonetic Spelling: (law-khoom')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: intestines, bowels
Meaning: eaten, food, flesh, body
Strong's Concordance
while

Or lachum {law-khoom'}; passive participle of lacham; properly, eaten, i.e. Food; also flesh, i.e. Body -- while...is eating, flesh.

see HEBREW lacham

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H3894. lechum

לְחוּםnoun [masculine] perhaps intestines, bowels (meaning and √ not wholly certain, compare NöZMG xl. 886, 721; from לחם‎ = press together, according to DlProl. 193); — only suffix: כַּגְּלָלִים וּלְחֻמֿםZephaniah 1:17 their blood shall be poured out like water,and their bowels like dung Hi-St (ct. 2 Samuel 20:10), Dll.c. We ('ihr Mark'), RothstKau AT DiJob 20:23; Gr חֵילָם‎ compare 20:12 (to which Now included); Now suggests also וְלֵחָםand their moisture (freshness, vigour, compare Deuteronomy 34:7); > and others who render flesh, ᵐ5τὰς σάρκας (compare Arabic flesh, meat, see below לֶחֶם‎); בִּלְחוּמוֺ עָלֵימוֺ וְיַמְטֵרJob 20:23 to fill his belly, God sendeth into him his burning anger, and raineth it upon him, into his (very) bowels Hi Dll.c. BaeKauAT (compare Di, and into his flesh De, see above); > distinguished from Zephaniah 1:17 Di (in translation) Da Hoffm Bu his food (as object of ימטר‎; read then לַחְמוֺ‎); ᵐ5ὀδύνας, whence Me Sgfr חֲבָלִים‎, SchwZAW x, 1890, 179 בַּלָּהָה‎; Nöl.c. wrath, compare Syriac threaten.