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# לֶחִי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3896

**Lehi. Compare also** — used 4 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

Lehi. Compare also [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3896/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

לְחִי²: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3896/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. scene of an exploit of Samson;—ל׳ Ju 15:19(×2) (𝔊 Σιαγων), לֶ֔חִי v 14; c. art. בַּלֶּחי v 9 (𝔊 Λέει, 𝔊L Λεχει), cf. רָ֫מַת לֶ֑חִי v 17 = height of Leḥi (expl. as from לְחִי jawbone, cf. GFM, 𝔊 Ἀναίρεσις σιαγόνος); also 2 S 23:11, where read לֶחְיָה to Leḥi, for לַחַיָּה, vid. ii. חַיָּה, p. 312 supr.; (𝔊 θηρία; 𝔊L σιαγόνα). It must have lain in the Shephelah, near the border of the hill-country of Judah (BuhlGeogr. 91); site unknown; conjectures are cited and criticized by GFM Ju 15:19 q.v.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (8 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Lehi (4).

## In the verses

[Judges 15:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.15.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.15.9/#tree)

וַיַּעֲל֣וּ פְלִשְׁתִּ֔ים וַֽיַּחֲנ֖וּ בִּיהוּדָ֑ה וַיִּנָּטְשׁ֖וּ בַּלֶּֽחִי׃

*Word for word:* and they.went.up \[the\].Philistines and they.encamped in Judah and they.were.spread.out at (the) Lehi

*JPS 1917:* Then the Philistines went up, and pitched in Judah, and spread themselves against Lehi.

[Judges 15:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.15.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.15.14/#tree)

הוּא־בָ֣א עַד־לֶ֔חִי וּפִלְשִׁתִּ֖יםהֵרִ֣יעוּ לִקְרָאת֑וֹ וַתִּצְלַ֨ח עָלָ֜יו ר֣וּחַ יְהוָ֗ה וַתִּהְיֶ֨ינָה הָעֲבֹתִ֜ים אֲשֶׁ֣ר עַל־זְרוֹעוֹתָ֗יו כַּפִּשְׁתִּים֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר בָּעֲר֣וּ בָאֵ֔שׁ וַיִּמַּ֥סּוּ אֱסוּרָ֖יו מֵעַ֥ל יָדָֽיו׃

*Word for word:* he \[was\].coming to Lehi and.\[the\] Philistines they.shouted to meet him and it.rushed on him the.spirit of.Yahweh and they.became the ropes which \[were\].on arms his like (the) flax(es) which people.have.burned with (the) fire and they.dropped.off fetters his from on hands his

*JPS 1917:* When he came unto Lehi, the Philistines shouted as they met him; and the spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and the ropes that were upon his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire, and his bands dropped from off his hands.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3896.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3896/): 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).