לחם

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Arabic

Noun

לחם • (transliteration needed) m

  1. Judeo-Arabic spelling of لَحْم (laḥm, “meat”)‎‎
    • c. 10th century, Saadia Gaon, Tafsir‎, Numbers 11:4:
      ואללפיף אלד֗ין פימא בינהם תשהו שהוה פרג֗ע בנו אסראיל איצ֗א מעהם ובכו וקאלו מן יטעמנא לחמא
      And the crowd who were among them felt a craving, and the Israelites also wept with them and said, Let us have meat!

Hebrew

Root
ל־ח־ם (l-kh-m)

Etymology

Cognate with Arabic لَحْم (laḥm, “meat”). The varying semantic developments are due to the differing agriculture and diets of the Arabian Peninsula and the Fertile Crescent.

Pronunciation

Noun

לֶחֶם • (lékhem) m (singular construct לֶחֶם־, Biblical Hebrew pausal form לָחֶם)

  1. bread
  2. (archaic or poetic) food
  3. (poetic) grain from which bread is made

Declension

Declension of לֶחֶם
Number Isolated forms With possessive pronouns
State Form Person singular plural
m. f. m. f.
singular indefinite לֶחֶם first לַחֲמִי לַחֲמֵנוּ
definite הַלֶּחֶם second לַחֲמְךָ לַחֲמֵךְ לֶחֶמְכֶם לֶחֶמְכֶן
construct לֶחֶם־ third לַחֲמוֹ לַחֲמָהּ לַחֲמָם לַחֲמָן

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