3859. laham
Strong's Concordance
laham: to swallow greedily
Original Word: לָהַם
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: laham
Phonetic Spelling: (law-ham')
Short Definition: morsels
Brown-Driver-Briggs
[לָהַם] verb swallow greedily (= Arabic ; DiLex, Ethiopic 25 compare Ethiopic ox, cow); — only

Hithpa`el Participle מִתְלַהֲמִים Proverbs 18:8 i.e. bits greedily swallowed, dainties, = Proverbs 26:22, simile of tale-bearer's words.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
wound

A primitive root; properly, to burn in, i.e. (figuratively) to rankle -- wound.

Forms and Transliterations
כְּמִֽתְלַהֲמִ֑ים כמתלהמים kə·miṯ·la·hă·mîm kemitlahaMim kəmiṯlahămîm
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Strong's Hebrew 3859
2 Occurrences


kə·miṯ·la·hă·mîm — 2 Occ.

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

2 Occurrences

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