לַחַשׁ
laḥaš
a whispering
Strong's H3908NounHebrewTWOT 1107a

לַחַשׁ (laḥaš) is a Hebrew noun meaning a whispering. It appears 5 times in 3 books of the Hebrew Bible (Strong's H3908).

Also rendered

Same Hebrew root (TWOT 1107a)

Range of meaning (TWOT 1107a)a whispering, charming; serpent-charming; charms, amulets; whisper of prayer; whisper, prayer, incantation; earring, enchantment, orator
Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's

לַ֫חַשׁ noun, masculine: a whispering, charming

Strong's H3908 לַחַשׁ: properly, a whisper, i.e. by implication, (in a good sense) a private prayer, (in a bad one) an incantation; concretely, an amulet
KJV:charmed, earring, enchantment, orator, prayer.

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 1107: לָחַשׁ lāḥaš — whisper, charm; voice of whisperers, serpent-charmers; whisper together; mumble a spell; charmer

See it in Scripture

Ecclesiastes 10:11Isaiah 3:3

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