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# לָחֶם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3901

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

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

then [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3901/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] only in אָז לֶחֶ֣ם שְׁעָרִים Ju 5:8 (so Mass; Codd. לָחֵ֣ם, לָ֣חֶם), usually tr. then was there war of (= at) the gates, but improb.; text and meaning dub.; A𝔊L read ὡς ἄρτον κρίθινον, whence BuRS 103 אָז לָחֶם שְׂעֹרִים then they used to eat barley bread; but BuComm. אָזַל ל׳ שׂ׳ the barley bread was exhausted; Mayer LambertRÉJ xxx, 115 אז לחמשׁ ערים then for (in) 5 cities no shield was seen, etc.; other conj. in KauAT; cf. GFMad loc.

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

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Judges 5:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.5.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.5.8/#tree)

יִבְחַר֙ אֱלֹהִ֣ים חֲדָשִׁ֔ים אָ֖ז לָחֶ֣ם שְׁעָרִ֑ים מָגֵ֤ן אִם־יֵֽרָאֶה֙ וָרֹ֔מַח בְּאַרְבָּעִ֥ים אֶ֖לֶף בְּיִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

*Word for word:* it.chose gods new then war \[was.in.the\].gates a.shield if it.was.seen and a.spear among forty thousand in Israel

*JPS 1917:* They chose new gods; then was war in the gates; was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3901.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3901/): 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).