לְחִי
lĕḥî
jaw
Strong's H3895NounHebrewTWOT 1101a

לְחִי (lĕḥî) is a Hebrew noun meaning jaw. It appears 21 times in 12 books of the Hebrew Bible (Strong's H3895).

Also rendered

Same Hebrew root (TWOT 1101a)

Range of meaning (TWOT 1101a)jaw, cheek; jawbone; fleshiness
Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's

לְחִי noun, masculine: jaw, cheek

Strong's H3895 לְחִי: the cheek (from its fleshiness); hence, the jaw-bone
KJV:cheek (bone), jaw (bone).

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 1101: לחה lḥh — smoothness, peel off, strip off, erase

See it in Scripture

Deuteronomy 18:3Judges 15:152 Chronicles 18:23

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