# H3908 לַחַשׁ

לַחַשׁ (lachash), Strong’s H3908: 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…

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*lachash* — 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.

Derived from [לָחַשׁ lâchash](https://besorah.bible/word/H3907) (to whisper)

Occurs 5 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- לַ֫חַשׁ n.[m.] a whispering, charming
- 1 serpent-charming
- 2 charms, amulets, worn by women
- 3 whisper of prayer

## Where it occurs
- [Isaiah 3:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/3?v=3) — the captain of fifty, the honorable man, the counselor, the skilled craftsman, and the clever enchanter.
- [Isaiah 3:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/3?v=20) — the headdresses, the ankle chains, the sashes, the perfume containers, the charms,
- [Isaiah 26:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/26?v=16) — LORD, in trouble they have visited you. They poured out a prayer when your chastening was on them.
- [Jeremiah 8:17](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/8?v=17) — “For, behold, I will send serpents, adders among you, which will not be charmed; and they will bite you,” says the LORD.
- [Ecclesiastes 10:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ecclesiastes/10?v=11) — If the snake bites before it is charmed, then is there no profit for the charmer’s tongue.