Biblical Hebrew

hebrew #3959 - לֶשֶׁם Leshem (a place in Northern Palestine)

Original Word:	לֶשֶׁם
Transliteration:	Leshem
Definition:	a place in Northern Palestine
Part of Speech:	Proper Name Location
Phonetic Spelling:	(leh'-shem)
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

Leshem, a place in Palestine

The same as leshem; Leshem, a place in Palestine:

see HEBREW leshem

Englishman's Concordance

Leshem=“precious stone”
1) a city west of Mount Hermon, also called ‘Laish’ and later ‘Dan’
Part of Speech: noun proper locative
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: the same as H3958

Brown-Driver-Briggs

II. לֶ֫שֶׁםproper name, of a location variant of לַיִשׁ (whence We^{De Gent 37}) Di read לֵשָׁם; Lag^{BN 20 Anm.} thinks ם remnant of Mimmation, לֶשֶׁם from לַיִשׁ=Laišum), old, name of city דָּן (see לַיִשׁ), Joshua 19:47 (twice in verse) (compare Di), ᵐ5^BΛαχεις, לֶשֶׁם דָּן=Λασεννδακ, ᵐ5^Aᵐ5^LΛεσεν.

לשׁן (√ of following; Thes conjectures original meaning lick (compare , , ), so Hup-Now^{Psalm 32:4}).

Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 3959. לֶ֫שֶׁם (Leshem) — 2 Occurrences

Joshua 19:47
HEB:וַיִּלָּחֲמ֨וּ עִם־ לֶ֜שֶׁם וַיִּלְכְּד֥וּ אוֹתָ֣הּ ׀
NAS: up and fought with Leshem and captured
KJV: to fight against Leshem, and took
INT: and fought with Leshem and captured struck

Joshua 19:47
HEB:בָ֔הּ וַיִּקְרְא֤וּ לְלֶ֙שֶׁם֙ דָּ֔ן כְּשֵׁ֖ם
NAS: in it; and they called Leshem Dan
KJV: therein, and called Leshem, Dan,
INT: and settled called Leshem Dan the name

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