לְחוּם
lĕḥûm
intestines
Strong's H3894NounHebrewTWOT 1104b

לְחוּם (lĕḥûm) is a Hebrew noun meaning intestines. It appears 2 times in 2 books of the Hebrew Bible (Strong's H3894).

Also rendered

Same Hebrew root (TWOT 1104b)

Range of meaning (TWOT 1104b)intestines, bowels; eaten, food, flesh, body
Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's

לְחוּם noun, masculine: intestines, bowels

perhaps intestines, bowels

Strong's H3894 לָחוּם: properly, eaten, i.e. food; also flesh, i.e. body
KJV:while...is eating, flesh.

Meanings: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890), public domain, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0). TWOT numbers for reference only.

Root family 1104: לָחַם lāḥam — fight, do battle; engage in battle, wage war; feed on, consume, battle; devour, eat, fighting, overcome, prevail, war, waring

See it in Scripture

Job 20:23Zephaniah 1:17

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