# H3899 לֶחֶם

לֶחֶם (lechem), Strong’s H3899: food (for man or beast), especially bread, or grain (for making it) KJV: (shew-) bread, [idiom] eat, food, fruit, loaf, meat, victuals.. Occurs 298 times.

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*lechem* — food (for man or beast), especially bread, or grain (for making it)

KJV: (shew-) bread, [idiom] eat, food, fruit, loaf, meat, victuals.

Derived from [לָחַם lâcham](https://besorah.bible/word/H3898) (to feed on)

Occurs 298 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- לֶ֫חֶם 296 n.m. and (rarely) f. bread, food

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 3:19](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/3?v=19) — You will eat bread by the sweat of your face until you return to the ground, for you were taken out of it. For you are…
- [Genesis 14:18](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/14?v=18) — Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. He was priest of God Most High.
- [Genesis 18:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/18?v=5) — I will get a piece of bread so you can refresh your heart. After that you may go your way, now that you have come to…
- [Genesis 21:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/21?v=14) — Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread and a container of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her…
- [Genesis 25:34](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/25?v=34) — Jacob gave Esau bread and lentil stew. He ate and drank, rose up, and went his way. So Esau despised his birthright.
- [Genesis 27:17](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/27?v=17) — She gave the savory food and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.
- [Genesis 28:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/28?v=20) — Jacob vowed a vow, saying, “If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to…
- [Genesis 31:54](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/31?v=54) — Jacob offered a sacrifice in the mountain, and called his relatives to eat bread. They ate bread, and stayed all night…
- [Genesis 37:25](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/37?v=25) — They sat down to eat bread, and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from…
- [Genesis 39:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/39?v=6) — He left all that he had in Joseph’s hand. He didn’t concern himself with anything, except for the food which he ate…