לחם

Arabic

Noun

לחם • (laḥm) m

1. Judeo-Arabic spelling of لَحْم (laḥm, “meat”)‎‎
   • c. 10th century, Saadia Gaon, Tafsir‎^[1], Numbers 11:4:

     ואללפיף אלד֗ין פימא בינהם תשהו שהוה פרג֗ע בנו אסראיל איצ֗א מעהם ובכו וקאלו מן יטעמנא לחמא

     And the crowd who were among them felt a craving, and the Israelites also wept with them and said, Let us have meat!

Hebrew

Root
ל־ח־ם (l-kh-m)

Etymology

Cognate with Arabic لَحْم (laḥm, “meat”). The varying semantic developments are due to the differing agriculture and diets of the Arabian Peninsula and the Fertile Crescent.

Pronunciation

• (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ˈleχem/
• (Tiberian Hebrew) IPA^(key): [ˈlɛːχɛm]

Noun

לֶחֶם • (lékhem) m (singular construct לֶחֶם־, Biblical Hebrew pausal form לָחֶם) [pattern: קֶטֶל]

1. bread
2. (archaic or poetic) food
3. (poetic) grain from which bread is made

Derived terms

• בֵּית לֶחֶם (beit lékhem)
• לֶחֶם מִשְׁנֶה (lékhem mishné)
• לחמנייה / לַחְמָנִיָּה (lakhmaniyá)

References

• H3899 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible

Anagrams

• חלם, חמל, מלח