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# לֶשֶׁם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3959

**Leshem** — used 2 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

Leshem [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3959/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

לֶ֫שֶׁם: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3959/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. variant of לַיִשׁ (whence WeDe gent. 37 Di read לֵשָׁם; LagBN 20 Anm. thinks ם remnant of Mimmation, לֶשֶׁם from לַיִשׁ = Laišum), old name of city דָּן (v. לַיִשׁ), Jos 19:47(×2) (cf. Di), 𝔊B Λαχεις, לֶשֶׁם דָּן = Λασεννδακ, A 𝔊L Λεσεν(μ).

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 (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Joshua 19:47](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.19.47/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.19.47/#tree)

וַיֵּצֵ֥א גְבוּל־בְּנֵי־דָ֖ן מֵהֶ֑ם וַיַּעֲל֣וּ בְנֵֽי־דָ֠ן וַיִּלָּחֲמ֨וּ עִם־לֶ֜שֶׁם וַיִּלְכְּד֥וּ אוֹתָ֣הּ ׀ וַיַּכּ֧וּ אוֹתָ֣הּ לְפִי־חֶ֗רֶב וַיִּֽרְשׁ֤וּ אוֹתָהּ֙ וַיֵּ֣שְׁבוּ בָ֔הּ וַיִּקְרְא֤וּ לְלֶ֙שֶׁם֙ דָּ֔ן כְּשֵׁ֖ם דָּ֥ן אֲבִיהֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* and it.went.out the.territory of.the.descendants of.Dan from them and they.went.up the.descendants of.Dan and they.waged.war with Leshem and they.captured it and they.struck.down it to.\[the\] mouth of.\[the\].sword and they.took.possession.of it and they.dwelt in it and they.called (to) Leshem Dan according to.the.name of.Dan ancestor their

*JPS 1917:* And the border of the children of Dan was too strait for them; so the children of Dan went up and fought against Leshem, and took it, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and possessed it, and dwelt therein, and called Leshem, Dan, after the name of Dan their father.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3959.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3959/): 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).