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title: לָהַם — swallow greedily · The Tanakh dictionary
description: לָהַם (3859), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: swallow greedily. BDB 1906: vb. swallow greedily. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# לָהַם

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«לָהַם» in the Tanakh dictionary: **swallow greedily** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 2 times · **Key:** 3859 · **BDB:** לָהַם

### Glosses

delicacies (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

swallow greedily [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3859/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. swallow greedily [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3859/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. swallow greedily (= Arabic لَهِمَ; DiLex. Ethiopic 25 comp. Ethiopic ላህም: ox, cow);—only Pt. מִתְלַהֲמִים Pr 18:8 i.e. bits greedily swallowed, dainties, = 26:22, sim. of tale-bearer’s words.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «לָהַם» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3859/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Proverbs 18:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.18.8/)

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דִּבְרֵ֣י נִ֭רְגָּן כְּמִֽתְלַהֲמִ֑ים וְ֝הֵ֗ם יָרְד֥וּ חַדְרֵי־בָֽטֶן׃

*Word for word:* \[the\].words of.a.slanderer \[are\].like delicacies and they they.go.down \[the\].chambers of.\[the\].belly

*JPS 1917:* The words of a whisperer are as dainty morsels, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.

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[Proverbs 26:22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.26.22/)

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דִּבְרֵ֣י נִ֭רְגָּן כְּמִֽתְלַהֲמִ֑ים וְ֝הֵ֗ם יָרְד֥וּ חַדְרֵי־בָֽטֶן׃

*Word for word:* \[the\].words of.a.slanderer \[are\].like delicacies and they they.go.down \[the\].chambers of.\[the\].belly

*JPS 1917:* The words of a whisperer are as dainty morsels, and they go down into the innermost parts of the body.

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