Food
לֶ֫חֶםStrong’s H3899lechem (le-chem)
Appears in 277 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Lechem is the Hebrew word usually translated “bread”, “food” and “bread of”. It appears in 277 verses of the Old Testament.
“I ate no pleasant bread, neither came flesh nor wine in my mouth, neither did I anoint myself at all, till three whole weeks were fulfilled.”
Meaning
- Bread, food, grainbread · food (in general)
How it's translated
- bread 79
- food 75
- bread of 26
- food of 18
- the bread 10
- food his 7
- food my 7
- the food 6
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 22
- Leviticus 22
- 1 Samuel 22
- 1 Kings 22
- Proverbs 22
- Exodus 20
30 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 3:19In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
- Genesis 14:18And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God.
- Genesis 18:5And I will fetch a morsel of bread, and comfort ye your hearts; after that ye shall pass on: for therefore are ye come to your servant. And they said, So do, as thou hast said.
- Genesis 21:14And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.
- Genesis 25:34Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way: thus Esau despised his birthright.
- Genesis 27:17And she gave the savoury meat and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.
All 277 verses, by book
- Genesis 22
- 3:1914:1818:521:1425:3427:1728:2031:5437:2539:641:5441:5543:2543:3143:3245:2347:1247:1347:1547:1747:1949:20
- Exodus 20
- 2:2016:316:416:816:1216:1516:2216:2916:3218:1223:2525:3029:229:2329:3229:3434:2835:1339:3640:23
- Leviticus 22
- 3:113:167:138:268:318:3221:621:821:1721:2121:2222:722:1122:1322:2523:1423:1723:1823:2024:726:526:26
- 1 Samuel 22
- 2:52:369:710:310:414:2414:2816:2017:1720:2420:2720:3421:321:421:622:1325:1125:1828:2028:2230:1130:12
- 1 Kings 22
- 4:225:97:4811:1813:813:913:1513:1613:1713:1813:1913:2213:2314:317:617:1118:418:1321:421:521:722:27
- Ezra 1
- 10:6
- Psalms 19
- 14:437:2541:942:353:478:2078:2580:5102:4102:9104:14104:15105:16105:40127:2132:15136:25146:7147:9
- Proverbs 22
- 4:176:86:269:59:1712:912:1120:1320:1722:923:323:625:2127:2728:328:1928:2130:830:2230:2531:1431:27
- Daniel 1
- 10:3
- Obadiah 1
- 1:7
- Haggai 1
- 2:12
- Malachi 1
- 1:7
Hebrew dictionary
לֶ֫חֶם lechem · food
: food(eating) 1) bread, food, grain 1a) bread 1a1) bread 1a2) bread-corn 1b) food (in general)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “food” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
FOOD, noun
[See Feed.]
- In a general sense, whatever is eaten by animals for nourishment, and whatever supplies nutriment to plants.
- Meat; aliment; flesh or vegetables eaten for sustaining human life; victuals; provisions; whatever is or may be eaten for nourishment.“Feed me with food convenient for me” Proverbs 30:8
- Whatever supplies nourishment and growth to plants, as water, carbonic acid gas, etc.
- Something that sustains, nourishes and augments.
All definitions and other forms of “food”
FOOD, verb transitive
To feed. [Not in use.]
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.