Intestine
לְחוּםStrong’s H3894lachum (la-chum)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Lachum is the Hebrew word usually translated “bowel his” and “bowel their”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain it upon him while he is eating.”
Meaning
- Intestines, bowelsmeaning uncertain
- (CLBL) food, something eaten
How it's translated
- in bowel his 1
- and bowel their 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 1
- Zephaniah 1
2 books in all.
Hebrew dictionary
לְחוּם lachum · intestine
1) intestines, bowels 1a) meaning uncertain 2) (CLBL) food, something eaten
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “intestine” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
INTEST'INE, adjective
[Latin intestinus, from intus, within.]
- Internal; inward; opposed to external; applied to the human or other animal body; as an intestine disease.
- Internal with regard to a state or country; domestic, not foreign; as intestine feuds; intestine war; intestine enemies.
All definitions and other forms of “intestine”
INTEST'INE, noun
Usually in the plural, intestines. The bowels; the canal or tube that extends, with convolutions, from the right orifice of the stomach to the anus.
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.