לֶחֶם lechem

Meaning

food (for man or beast), especially bread, or grain (for making it)

In the King James Version: (shew-) bread, [idiom] eat, food, fruit, loaf, meat, victuals.

Derivation: from H3898 (לָחַם); See also H1036 (בֵּית לְעַפְרָה)

Where it is used

• Psalms 78:20 When He struck the rock, water gushed out and torrents raged. But can He also give bread or supply His people with meat?”
• Psalms 78:25 Man ate the bread of angels; He sent them food in abundance.
• Psalms 80:5 You fed them with the bread of tears and made them drink the full measure of their tears.
• Psalms 102:4 My heart is afflicted, and withered like grass; I even forget to eat my bread.
• Psalms 102:9 For I have eaten ashes like bread and mixed my drink with tears
• Psalms 104:14 He makes the grass grow for the livestock and provides crops for man to cultivate, bringing forth food from the earth:
• Psalms 104:15 wine that gladdens the heart of man, oil that makes his face to shine, and bread that sustains his heart.
• Psalms 105:16 He called down famine on the land and cut off all their supplies of food.
• Psalms 105:40 They asked, and He brought quail and satisfied them with the bread of heaven.
• Psalms 127:2 In vain you rise early and stay up late, toiling for bread to eat—for He gives sleep to His beloved.
• Psalms 132:15 I will bless her with abundant provisions; I will satisfy her poor with bread.
• Psalms 136:25 He gives food to every creature. His loving devotion endures forever.
• Psalms 146:7 He executes justice for the oppressed and gives food to the hungry. The LORD sets the prisoners free,
• Psalms 147:9 He provides food for the animals, and for the young ravens when they call.
• Proverbs 4:17 For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.
• Proverbs 6:8 it prepares its provisions in summer; it gathers its food at harvest.
• Proverbs 6:26 For the levy of the prostitute is poverty, and the adulteress preys upon your very life.
• Proverbs 9:5 “Come, eat my bread and drink the wine I have mixed.
• Proverbs 9:17 “Stolen water is sweet, and bread eaten in secret is tasty!”
• Proverbs 12:9 Better to be lightly esteemed yet have a servant, than to be self-important but lack food.
• Proverbs 12:11 The one who works his land will have plenty of food, but whoever chases fantasies lacks judgment.
• Proverbs 20:13 Do not love sleep, or you will grow poor; open your eyes, and you will have plenty of food.
• Proverbs 20:17 Food gained by fraud is sweet to a man, but later his mouth is full of gravel.
• Proverbs 22:9 A generous man will be blessed, for he shares his bread with the poor.
• Proverbs 23:3 Do not crave his delicacies, for that food is deceptive.
• Proverbs 23:6 Do not eat the bread of a stingy man, and do not crave his delicacies;
• Proverbs 25:21 If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat, and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink.
• Proverbs 27:27 You will have plenty of goats’ milk to feed you—food for your household and nourishment for your maidservants.
• Proverbs 28:3 A destitute leader who oppresses the poor is like a driving rain that leaves no food.
• Proverbs 28:19 The one who works his land will have plenty of food, but whoever chases fantasies will have his fill of poverty.
• Proverbs 28:21 To show partiality is not good, yet a man will do wrong for a piece of bread.
• Proverbs 30:8 Keep falsehood and deceitful words far from me. Give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the bread that is my portion.
• Proverbs 30:22 a servant who becomes king, a fool who is filled with food,
• Proverbs 30:25 The ants are creatures of little strength, yet they store up their food in the summer;
• Proverbs 31:14 She is like the merchant ships, bringing her food from afar.
• Proverbs 31:27 She watches over the affairs of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness.
• Ecclesiastes 9:7 Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a cheerful heart, for God has already approved your works:
• Ecclesiastes 9:11 I saw something else under the sun: The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong; neither is the bread to the wise, nor the wealth to the intelligent, nor the favor to the skillful. For time and chance happen to all.
• Ecclesiastes 10:19 A feast is prepared for laughter, and wine makes life merry, but money is the answer for everything.
• Ecclesiastes 11:1 Cast your bread upon the waters, for after many days you will find it again.
• Isaiah 3:1 For behold, the Lord GOD of Hosts is about to remove from Jerusalem and Judah both supply and support: the whole supply of food and water,
• Isaiah 3:7 On that day he will cry aloud: “I am not a healer. I have no food or clothing in my house. Do not make me leader of the people!”
• Isaiah 4:1 In that day seven women will take hold of one man and say, “We will eat our own bread and provide our own clothes. Just let us be called by your name. Take away our disgrace!”
• Isaiah 21:14 Bring water for the thirsty, O dwellers of Tema; meet the refugees with food.
• Isaiah 28:28 Grain for bread must be ground, but it is not endlessly threshed. Though the wheels of the cart roll over it, the horses do not crush it.
• Isaiah 30:20 The Lord will give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, but your Teacher will no longer hide Himself—with your own eyes you will see Him.
• Isaiah 30:23 Then He will send rain for the seed that you have sown in the ground, and the food that comes from your land will be rich and plentiful. On that day your cattle will graze in open pastures.
• Isaiah 33:16 he will dwell on the heights; the mountain fortress will be his refuge; his food will be provided and his water assured.
• Isaiah 36:17 until I come and take you away to a land like your own—a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards.
• Isaiah 44:15 It serves as fuel for man. He takes some of it to warm himself, and he kindles a fire and bakes his bread. He also fashions it into a god and worships it; he makes an idol and bows down to it.
• Isaiah 44:19 And no one considers in his heart, no one has the knowledge or insight to say, “I burned half of it in the fire, and I baked bread on its coals; I roasted meat and I ate. Shall I make something detestable with the rest of it? Shall I bow down to a block of wood?”
• Isaiah 51:14 The captive will soon be freed; he will not die in the dungeon, and his bread will not be lacking.
• Isaiah 55:2 Why spend money on that which is not bread, and your labor on that which does not satisfy? Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good, and your soul will delight in the richest of foods.
• Isaiah 55:10 For just as rain and snow fall from heaven and do not return without watering the earth, making it bud and sprout, and providing seed to sow and food to eat,
• Isaiah 58:7 Isn’t it to share your bread with the hungry, to bring the poor and homeless into your home, to clothe the naked when you see him, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?
• Isaiah 65:25 The wolf and the lamb will feed together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox, but the food of the serpent will be dust. They will neither harm nor destroy on all My holy mountain,” says the LORD.
• Jeremiah 5:17 They will devour your harvest and food; they will consume your sons and daughters; they will eat up your flocks and herds; they will feed on your vines and fig trees. With the sword they will destroy the fortified cities in which you trust.”
• Jeremiah 11:19 For I was like a gentle lamb led to slaughter; I did not know that they had plotted against me: “Let us destroy the tree with its fruit; let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be remembered no more.”
• Jeremiah 37:21 So King Zedekiah gave orders for Jeremiah to be placed in the courtyard of the guard and given a loaf of bread daily from the street of the bakers, until all the bread in the city was gone. So Jeremiah remained in the courtyard of the guard.
• Jeremiah 38:9 “My lord the king, these men have acted wickedly in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet. They have dropped him into the cistern, where he will starve to death, for there is no more bread in the city.”