To swallow
לָהַםStrong’s H3859laham (la-ham)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Laham is the Hebrew word usually translated “like delicacies”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.”
Meaning
- To gulp, swallow greedily(Hithpael) to be gulped
How it's translated
- like delicacies 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Proverbs 2
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
לָהַם laham · to swallow
1) to gulp, swallow greedily 1a) (Hithpael) to be gulped
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “swallow” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SWAL'LOW, noun
A bird of the genus Hirundo, of many species, among which are the chimney swallow and the martin.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.