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# לְחֵם

Biblical Aramaic

**feast** — used 1 times in the Aramaic chapters of the Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

feast [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1500/lemma_3a_5dc_5b0_5d7_5b5_5dd/#m1)

### Jastrow 1903

לְחֵם: meat, flesh laḥma [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1500/lemma_3a_5dc_5b0_5d7_5b5_5dd/#m2)

**The whole Jastrow entry:** same. Targ. Gen. XIV, 18. Ib. XLIII, 31; a. fr.—Snh. 100ᵇ (from Ben Sira) אמר במאי איכול ל׳ ל׳ סב מיניה if a man says, ‘wherewith shall I eat bread (to season it)?’, take the bread from him. Ab. Zar. 35ᵇ ל׳ דארמאי (Ms. M. נהמא) bread baked by gentiles, v. פַּת. Ber. 42ᵇ ניזיל וניכול ל׳ וכ׳ (Ms. M. נהמא) let us go and dine at a certain place; a. fr. meat, flesh. Ex. R. s. 42 (ref. to לחמם, Zeph. I, 17) בערביא קורין לבשרא ל׳ in Arabia they call meat laḥma

Why these entries: BDB: none; OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates); Jastrow: headword, part of speech not compared, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a feast (1).

## In the verses

[Daniel 5:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.5.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.5.1/#tree)

בֵּלְשַׁאצַּ֣ר מַלְכָּ֗א עֲבַד֙ לְחֶ֣ם רַ֔ב לְרַבְרְבָנ֖וֹהִי אֲלַ֑ף וְלָקֳבֵ֥ל אַלְפָּ֖א חַמְרָ֥א שָׁתֵֽה׃

*Word for word:* Belshazzar the king he.made a.feast great for nobles his a.thousand and (to) before the thousand (the) wine \[he.was\].drinking

*JPS 1917:* Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.

## In Targum Onkelos

Number 226 of the commonest words of Targum Onkelos, the Aramaic translation of the Torah: used 24 times there, in the forms לְחֵם (14); דִלְחֵם (6); וּלְחֵם (3); לִלְחֵם (1).

[Exodus 25:30](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.25.30/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.25.30/#tree) · Onkelos, then the Hebrew

וְתִתֵּן עַל פָּתוֹרָא לְחֵם אַפַּיָא קֳדָמַי תְּדִירָא:

וְנָתַתָּ֧ עַֽל־הַשֻּׁלְחָ֛ן לֶ֥חֶם פָּנִ֖ים לְפָנַ֥י תָּמִֽיד׃פ

*Word for word:* and you.will.put on the table bread of.presence before me continually

*JPS 1917:* And thou shalt set upon the table showbread before Me alway.

[Leviticus 3:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.3.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.3.11/#tree) · Onkelos, then the Hebrew

וְיַסְקִנֵהּ כַּהֲנָא לְמַדְבְּחָא לְחֵם קֻרְבָּנָא קֳדָם יְיָ

וְהִקְטִיר֥וֹ הַכֹּהֵ֖ן הַמִּזְבֵּ֑חָה לֶ֥חֶם אִשֶּׁ֖ה לַיהוָֽה׃פ

*Word for word:* and he will.make.it.smoke the priest to the altar food of.a.fire.offering to Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* And the priest shall make it smoke upon the altar; it is the food of the offering made by fire unto the LORD.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5dc_5b0_5d7_5b5_5dd.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1500/lemma_3a_5dc_5b0_5d7_5b5_5dd/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).