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# לָהַם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3859

**swallow greedily** — used 2 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

swallow greedily [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3859/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

לָהַם: vb. swallow greedily [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3859/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. swallow greedily (= Arabic لَهِمَ; DiLex. Ethiopic 25 comp. Ethiopic ላህም: ox, cow);—only Pt. מִתְלַהֲמִים Pr 18:8 i.e. bits greedily swallowed, dainties, = 26:22, sim. of tale-bearer’s words.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: delicacies (2).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 18:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.18.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.18.8/#tree)

דִּבְרֵ֣י נִ֭רְגָּן כְּמִֽתְלַהֲמִ֑ים וְ֝הֵ֗ם יָרְד֥וּ חַדְרֵי־בָֽטֶן׃

*Word for word:* \[the\].words of.a.slanderer \[are\].like delicacies and they they.go.down \[the\].chambers of.\[the\].belly

*JPS 1917:* The words of a whisperer are as dainty morsels, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.

[Proverbs 26:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.26.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.26.22/#tree)

דִּבְרֵ֣י נִ֭רְגָּן כְּמִֽתְלַהֲמִ֑ים וְ֝הֵ֗ם יָרְד֥וּ חַדְרֵי־בָֽטֶן׃

*Word for word:* \[the\].words of.a.slanderer \[are\].like delicacies and they they.go.down \[the\].chambers of.\[the\].belly

*JPS 1917:* The words of a whisperer are as dainty morsels, and they go down into the innermost parts of the body.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3859.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3859/): 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).