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לֶחֶם
lechem · Hebrew · Strong's H3899 · 298 occurrences
The KJV renders 14 different Hebrew and Greek words as “meat”
What it means
food (for man or beast), especially bread, or grain (for making it)
from H3898 (לָחַם); See also H1036 (בֵּית לְעַפְרָה)
How the KJV renders it
shewbread, food, fruit, loaf, meat, victuals
Where that flattens a distinction
The same English word is also used for these other originals, so the distinction between them disappears in translation.
“meat”
“food”
“fruit”
also renders opṓra (G3703), génnēma (G1081), karpós (G2590), ʼêb (H4), yᵉbûwl (H2981), maʼăkâl (H3978), mᵉlêʼâh (H4395), tᵉbûwʼâh (H8393)
“victuals”
“shewbread”
also renders ártos (G740)
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Where it appears
298 occurrences in the Hebrew text, first 60 verses shown.
1 Chronicles 9:32 · HNcbsc
Some of their brothers, of the sons of the Kohathites, were over the show bread, to prepare it every Sabbath.
1 Chronicles 12:40 · HNcbsa
Moreover those who were near to them, as far as Issachar, Zebulun, and Naphtali, brought bread on donkeys, on camels, on mules, and on oxen: supplies of flour, cakes of figs, clusters of raisins, wine, oil, cattle, and sheep in abundance; for there was joy in Israel.
1 Chronicles 16:3 · HNcbsa
He gave to everyone of Israel, both man and woman, to everyone a loaf of bread, a portion of meat, and a cake of raisins.
1 Chronicles 23:29 · HC/R/Ncbsc
for the show bread also, and for the fine flour for a meal offering, whether of unleavened wafers, or of that which is baked in the pan, or of that which is soaked, and for all measurements of quantity and size;
1 Kings 4:22 · HNcbsc
Solomon’s provision for one day was thirty cors of fine flour, sixty measures of meal,
1 Kings 5:9 · HNcbsc
My servants will bring them down from Lebanon to the sea. I will make them into rafts to go by sea to the place that you specify to me, and will cause them to be broken up there, and you will receive them. You will accomplish my desire, in giving food for my household.”
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Occurrences and morphology are taken from the primary Hebrew text, never from an English translation. Strong's Hebrew lexicon and Westminster Leningrad Codex morphology used under CC BY-SA 4.0 / CC BY 4.0 (OpenScriptures). Strong's Greek lexicon is public domain.