{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H3898",
  "lemma": "לָחַם",
  "transliteration": "lâcham",
  "definition": "to feed on; figuratively, to consume; by implication, to battle (as destruction)",
  "kjv": "devour, eat, [idiom] ever, fight(-ing), overcome, prevail, (make) war(-ring).",
  "occurrences": 177,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "[לָחַם] vb. use as food, eat",
    "לָחַם vb",
    "[לָחַם] 171 vb. fight, do battle",
    "Qal fight, do battle",
    "Niph. engage in battle (recipr.), sometimes wage war"
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 1:10",
      "text": "Come, let’s deal wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it happen that when any war breaks out, they also join…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/1?v=10"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 14:14",
      "text": "The LORD will fight for you, and you shall be still.”",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/14?v=14"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 14:25",
      "text": "He took off their chariot wheels, and they drove them heavily; so that the Egyptians said, “Let’s flee from the face of…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/14?v=25"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 17:8",
      "text": "Then Amalek came and fought with Israel in Rephidim.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/17?v=8"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 17:9",
      "text": "Moses said to Joshua, “Choose men for us, and go out to fight with Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/17?v=9"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 17:10",
      "text": "So Joshua did as Moses had told him, and fought with Amalek; and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/17?v=10"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Numbers 21:1",
      "text": "The Canaanite, the king of Arad, who lived in the South, heard that Israel came by the way of Atharim. He fought…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/21?v=1"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Numbers 21:23",
      "text": "Sihon would not allow Israel to pass through his border, but Sihon gathered all his people together, and went out…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/21?v=23"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Numbers 21:26",
      "text": "For Heshbon was the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab, and taken…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/21?v=26"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Numbers 22:11",
      "text": "‘Behold, the people that has come out of Egypt covers the surface of the earth. Now, come curse them for me. Perhaps I…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/22?v=11"
    }
  ],
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