Strong Hebrew #3859 - לָהַם laham (to swallow greedily)
Original Word: | לָהַם |
Transliteration: | laham |
Definition: | to swallow greedily |
Part of Speech: | Verb |
Phonetic Spelling: | (law-ham') |
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
wound
A primitive root; properly, to burn in, i.e. (figuratively) to rankle -- wound.
Englishman's Concordance
1) to gulp, swallow greedily
1a) (Hithpael) to be gulped
Part of Speech: verb
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: a primitive root
Same Word by TWOT Number: 1082
Brown-Driver-Briggs
[
לָהַם]
verbswallow greedily (=Arabic

; Di
Lex, Ethiopic 25 compare Ethiopic
ox, cow); — only
Hithpa`elParticipleמִתְלַהֲמִיםProverbs 18:8 i.e. bits greedilyswallowed, dainties,=Proverbs 26:22, simile of tale-bearer's words.
Englishman's Concordance (References)
Strong's Hebrew: 3859. לָהַם (laham) — 2 Occurrences
Proverbs 18:8
HEB:דִּבְרֵ֣י נִ֭רְגָּן כְּמִֽתְלַהֲמִ֑ים וְ֝הֵ֗ם יָרְד֥וּ
NAS: of a whisperer are like dainty morsels, And they go down
KJV: of a talebearer [are] as wounds, and they go down
INT: the words of a talebearer dainty and they go
Proverbs 26:22
HEB:דִּבְרֵ֣י נִ֭רְגָּן כְּמִֽתְלַהֲמִ֑ים וְ֝הֵ֗ם יָרְד֥וּ
NAS: of a whisperer are like dainty morsels, And they go down
KJV: of a talebearer [are] as wounds, and they go down
INT: the words of a talebearer dainty and they go