# H3898 לָחַם

לָחַם (lâcham), Strong’s H3898: to feed on; figuratively, to consume; by implication, to battle (as destruction) KJV: devour, eat, [idiom] ever, fight(-ing), overcome, prevail, (make) war(-ring)…

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*lâcham* — to feed on; figuratively, to consume; by implication, to battle (as destruction)

KJV: devour, eat, [idiom] ever, fight(-ing), overcome, prevail, (make) war(-ring).

Occurs 177 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [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

## Where it occurs
- [Exodus 1:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/1?v=10) — Come, let’s deal wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it happen that when any war breaks out, they also join…
- [Exodus 14:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/14?v=14) — The LORD will fight for you, and you shall be still.”
- [Exodus 14:25](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/14?v=25) — He took off their chariot wheels, and they drove them heavily; so that the Egyptians said, “Let’s flee from the face of…
- [Exodus 17:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/17?v=8) — Then Amalek came and fought with Israel in Rephidim.
- [Exodus 17:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/17?v=9) — 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…
- [Exodus 17:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/17?v=10) — 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.
- [Numbers 21:1](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/21?v=1) — The Canaanite, the king of Arad, who lived in the South, heard that Israel came by the way of Atharim. He fought…
- [Numbers 21:23](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/21?v=23) — Sihon would not allow Israel to pass through his border, but Sihon gathered all his people together, and went out…
- [Numbers 21:26](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/21?v=26) — For Heshbon was the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab, and taken…
- [Numbers 22:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/22?v=11) — ‘Behold, the people that has come out of Egypt covers the surface of the earth. Now, come curse them for me. Perhaps I…