Jaw
לְחִיStrong’s H3895lechi (le-chi)
Appears in 20 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Lechi is the Hebrew word usually translated “cheek”, “jawbone of” and “jaws your”. It appears in 20 verses of the Old Testament.
“And this shall be the priest’s due from the people, from them that offer a sacrifice, whether it be ox or sheep; and they shall give unto the priest the shoulder, and the two cheeks, and the maw.”
Meaning
- This name means jaw, cheek
- Jaw, cheekjaw, jawbone (of animal) · cheek (of man)
How it's translated
- the cheek 3
- with jawbone of 2
- in jaws your 2
- and the two cheeks 1
- a jawbone of 1
- the jawbone 1
- at lehi 1
- cheeks my 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Judges 4
- Job 2
- Song of Solomon 2
- Isaiah 2
- Lamentations 2
- Ezekiel 2
12 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Judges 15:15And he found a new jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand, and took it, and slew a thousand men therewith.
- Judges 15:16And Samson said, With the jawbone of an ass, heaps upon heaps, with the jaw of an ass have I slain a thousand men.
- Judges 15:17And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking, that he cast away the jawbone out of his hand, and called that place Ramathlehi.
- Judges 15:19But God clave an hollow place that was in the jaw, and there came water thereout; and when he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived: wherefore he called the name thereof Enhakkore, which is in Lehi unto this day.
- 1 Kings 22:24But Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah went near, and smote Micaiah on the cheek, and said, Which way went the Spirit of the LORD from me to speak unto thee?
- 2 Chronicles 18:23Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near, and smote Micaiah upon the cheek, and said, Which way went the Spirit of the LORD from me to speak unto thee?
Hebrew dictionary
לְחִי lechi · Lehi
This name means jaw, cheek Another name of le.chi (לֶחִי "Lehi" H3896)
לְחִי lechi · jaw
1) jaw, cheek 1a) jaw, jawbone (of animal) 1b) cheek (of man)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “jaw” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
JAW, noun
- The bones of the mouth in which the teeth are fixed.
- The mouth.
- In vulgar language, scolding, wrangling, abusive clamor.
All definitions and other forms of “jaw”
JAW, verb intransitive
To scold; to clamor. [Vulgar.]
JAW, verb transitive
To abuse by scolding. [Vulgar.]
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.