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War

לָחֶםStrong’s H3901

lachem (la-chem)

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

Lachem is the Hebrew word usually translated “bread”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“They chose new gods; then was war in the gates: was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?”
Judges 5:8 KJV
Meaning
  1. Warmeaning uncertain
How it's translated
  • bread 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Judges 1

1 book in all.

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    Hebrew dictionary

    לָחֶם lachem · war

    1) war 1a) meaning uncertain

    From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

    Webster's 1828 Dictionary

    How the English word “war” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

    WAR, noun

    [G., to perplex, embroil, disturb. The primary sense of the root is to strive, struggle, urge, drive, or to turn, to twist.]

    1. A contest between nations or states, carried on by force, either for defense, or for revenging insults and redressing wrongs, for the extension of commerce or acquisition of territory, or for obtaining and establishing the superiority and dominion of one over the other.
    2. In poetical language, instruments of war
    3. Poetically, forces; army.
    4. The profession of arms; art of war; as a fierce man of war Isaiah 2:4
    All definitions and other forms of “war”
    1. Hostility; state of opposition or contest; act of opposition.
    2. Enmity; disposition to contention.“The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart” Psalms 55:21

    WAR, verb intransitive

    1. To make war; to invade or attack a nation or state with force of arms; to carry on hostilities; or to be in a state of contest by violence.“He teacheth my hands to war” 2 Samuel 22:35“And they warred against eh Midianites” Numbers 31:7
    2. To contend; to strive violently; to be in a state of opposition.“Lusts which war against the soul” 1 Peter 2:11

    WAR, verb transitive

    1. To make war upon; as, to war the Scot. [Not used.]
    2. To carry on a contest.“That thou mightest war a good warfare” 1 Timothy 1:18

    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.