Biblical Hebrew

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

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