{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H3897",
  "lemma": "לָחַךְ",
  "transliteration": "lâchak",
  "definition": "to lick",
  "kjv": "lick (up).",
  "occurrences": 6,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "[לָחַךְ] vb. lick",
    "Qal of ox licking up grass.",
    "Pi. lick up, fire fr. heaven the water in trench; of Isr. consuming produce of land; lick the dust, sign of humiliation"
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Numbers 22:4",
      "text": "Moab said to the elders of Midian, “Now this multitude will lick up all that is around us, as the ox licks up the grass…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/22?v=4"
    },
    {
      "reference": "1 Kings 18:38",
      "text": "Then the LORD’s fire fell and consumed the burnt offering, the wood, the stones, and the dust; and it licked up the…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/18?v=38"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Isaiah 49:23",
      "text": "Kings shall be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. They will bow down to you with their faces…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/49?v=23"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Micah 7:17",
      "text": "They will lick the dust like a serpent. Like crawling things of the earth, they will come trembling out of their dens…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/micah/7?v=17"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Psalms 72:9",
      "text": "Those who dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him. His enemies shall lick the dust.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/72?v=9"
    }
  ],
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