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# לָחַךְ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3897

**lick** — used 6 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

lick [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3897/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

לָחַךְ: vb. lick [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3897/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. lick (NH id.; so Aramaic לְחַךְ, ܠܚܰܟ; Arabic لَحِكَ );— Inf. cstr. כִּלְחֹךְ Nu 22:4 (E), sq. acc.; of ox licking up grass. Pf. 3 fs. לִחֵ֑כָה 1 K 18:38; Impf. 3 mpl. יְלַחֲכוּ Nu 22:4; Mi 7:17; יְלַחֵ֑כוּ ψ 72:9 Is 49:23; lick up (sq. acc.), fire from heaven the water in trench 1 K 18:38; of Isr. consuming produce of land Nu 22:3 (E); especially ל׳ עָפָר lick the dust, sign of humiliation Mi 7:17 ψ 72:9 Is 49:23.

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

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: they will lick up (4); it licked up (1); licks up (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 72:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.72.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.72.9/#tree)

לְ֭פָנָיו יִכְרְע֣וּ צִיִּ֑ים וְ֝אֹיְבָ֗יו עָפָ֥ר יְלַחֵֽכוּ׃

*Word for word:* before him they.will.bow.down desert-dwellers and enemies his dust they.will.lick.up

*JPS 1917:* Let them that dwell in the wilderness bow before him; and his enemies lick the dust.

[Micah 7:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MIC.7.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MIC.7.17/#tree)

יְלַחֲכ֤וּ עָפָר֙ כַּנָּחָ֔שׁ כְּזֹחֲלֵ֣י אֶ֔רֶץ יִרְגְּז֖וּ מִמִּסְגְּרֹֽתֵיהֶ֑ם אֶל־יְהוָ֤ה אֱלֹהֵ֙ינוּ֙ יִפְחָ֔דוּ וְיִֽרְא֖וּ מִמֶּֽךָּ׃

*Word for word:* they.will.lick.up dust like (the) snake like \[things.which\].crawl of.\[the\].earth they.will.quake from strongholds their to Yahweh God our they.will.be.in.dread and they.will.be.afraid from you

*JPS 1917:* They shall lick the dust like a serpent; like crawling things of the earth they shall come trembling out of their close places; they shall come with fear unto the LORD our God, and shall be afraid because of Thee.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3897.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3897/): 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).