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Cognate with Arabicلَحْم(laḥm, “meat”), with the varying semantic developments being due to the differing agriculture and diets of the Arabian Peninsula and the Fertile Crescent. The verb follows from the noun and is usually employed to form figurae etymologicae.
They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.
Klein, Ernest (1987) “לֶחֶם”, in A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Hebrew Language for Readers of English, Jerusalem: Carta, →ISBN, page 298b
Jastrow, Marcus (1903) A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature, London, New York: Luzac & Co., G.P. Putnam's Sons, page 704a
“לחם” in the Hebrew Terms Database of the Academy of Hebrew Language