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title: לֶשֶׁם — Leshem · The Tanakh dictionary
description: לֶשֶׁם (3959), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: Leshem. BDB 1906: n.pr.loc. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# לֶשֶׁם

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«לֶשֶׁם» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Leshem** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 2 times · **Key:** 3959 · **BDB:** לֶ֫שֶׁם

### Glosses

Leshem (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Leshem [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3959/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3959/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. variant of לַיִשׁ (whence WeDe gent. 37 Di read לֵשָׁם; LagBN 20 Anm. thinks ם remnant of Mimmation, לֶשֶׁם from לַיִשׁ = Laišum), old name of city דָּן (v. לַיִשׁ), Jos 19:47(×2) (cf. Di), 𝔊B Λαχεις, לֶשֶׁם דָּן = Λασεννδακ, A 𝔊L Λεσεν(μ).

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

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «לֶשֶׁם» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3959/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Joshua 19:47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.19.47/)

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וַיֵּצֵ֥א גְבוּל־בְּנֵי־דָ֖ן מֵהֶ֑ם וַיַּעֲל֣וּ בְנֵֽי־דָ֠ן וַיִּלָּחֲמ֨וּ עִם־לֶ֜שֶׁם וַיִּלְכְּד֥וּ אוֹתָ֣הּ ׀ וַיַּכּ֧וּ אוֹתָ֣הּ לְפִי־חֶ֗רֶב וַיִּֽרְשׁ֤וּ אוֹתָהּ֙ וַיֵּ֣שְׁבוּ בָ֔הּ וַיִּקְרְא֤וּ לְלֶ֙שֶׁם֙ דָּ֔ן כְּשֵׁ֖ם דָּ֥ן אֲבִיהֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* and it.went.out the.territory of.the.descendants of.Dan from them and they.went.up the.descendants of.Dan and they.waged.war with Leshem and they.captured it and they.struck.down it to.\[the\] mouth of.\[the\].sword and they.took.possession.of it and they.dwelt in it and they.called (to) Leshem Dan according to.the.name of.Dan ancestor their

*JPS 1917:* And the border of the children of Dan was too strait for them; so the children of Dan went up and fought against Leshem, and took it, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and possessed it, and dwelt therein, and called Leshem, Dan, after the name of Dan their father.

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