Strong's Concordance H3898

Original Word: לָחַם
Transliteration: lâcham
Phonetic Spelling: law-kham'
a primitive root; to feed on; figuratively, to consume; by implication, to battle (as destruction); devour, eat, × ever, fight(-ing), overcome, prevail, (make) war(-ring).

Usages throughout the bible

2 Kings 6:8 - Then the king of Syria warred H3898 against Israel, and took counsel with his servants, saying, In such and such a place shall be my camp.

2 Kings 8:29 - And king Joram went back to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Syrians had given him at Ramah, when he fought H3898 against Hazael king of Syria. And Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick.

2 Kings 9:15 - But king Joram was returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Syrians had given him, when he fought H3898 with Hazael king of Syria.) And Jehu said, If it be your minds, then let none go forth nor escape out of the city to go to tell it in Jezreel.

2 Kings 10:3 - Look even out the best and meetest of your master's sons, and set him on his father's throne, and fight H3898 for your master's house.

2 Kings 12:17 - Then Hazael king of Syria went up, and fought H3898 against Gath, and took it: and Hazael set his face to go up to Jerusalem.

2 Kings 13:12 - And the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, and his might wherewith he fought H3898 against Amaziah king of Judah, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

2 Kings 14:15 - Now the rest of the acts of Jehoash which he did, and his might, and how he fought H3898 with Amaziah king of Judah, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

2 Kings 14:28 - Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all that he did, and his might, how he warred, H3898 and how he recovered Damascus, and Hamath, which belonged to Judah, for Israel, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

2 Kings 16:5 - Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to war: and they besieged Ahaz, but could not overcome H3898 him.

2 Kings 19:8 - So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring H3898 against Libnah: for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.

2 Kings 19:9 - And when he heard say of Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, Behold, he is come out to fight H3898 against thee: he sent messengers again unto Hezekiah, saying,

1 Chronicles 10:1 - Now the Philistines fought H3898 against Israel; and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain in mount Gilboa.

1 Chronicles 18:10 - He sent Hadoram his son to king David, to enquire of his welfare, and to congratulate him, because he had fought H3898 against Hadarezer, and smitten him; (for Hadarezer had war with Tou;) and with him all manner of vessels of gold and silver and brass.

1 Chronicles 19:17 - And it was told David; and he gathered all Israel, and passed over Jordan, and came upon them, and set the battle in array against them. So when David had put the battle in array against the Syrians, they fought H3898 with him.

2 Chronicles 11:1 - And when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he gathered of the house of Judah and Benjamin an hundred and fourscore thousand chosen men, which were warriors, to fight H3898 against Israel, that he might bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam.

2 Chronicles 11:4 - Thus saith the LORD, Ye shall not go up, nor fight H3898 against your brethren: return every man to his house: for this thing is done of me. And they obeyed the words of the LORD, and returned from going against Jeroboam.

2 Chronicles 13:12 - And, behold, God himself is with us for our captain, and his priests with sounding trumpets to cry alarm against you. O children of Israel, fight H3898 ye not against the LORD God of your fathers; for ye shall not prosper.

2 Chronicles 17:10 - And the fear of the LORD fell upon all the kingdoms of the lands that were round about Judah, so that they made no war H3898 against Jehoshaphat.

2 Chronicles 18:30 - Now the king of Syria had commanded the captains of the chariots that were with him, saying, Fight H3898 ye not with small or great, save only with the king of Israel.

2 Chronicles 18:31 - And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, that they said, It is the king of Israel. Therefore they compassed about him to fight: H3898 but Jehoshaphat cried out, and the LORD helped him; and God moved them to depart from him.

2 Chronicles 20:17 - Ye shall not need to fight H3898 in this battle: set yourselves, stand ye still, and see the salvation of the LORD with you, O Judah and Jerusalem: fear not, nor be dismayed; to morrow go out against them: for the LORD will be with you.

2 Chronicles 20:29 - And the fear of God was on all the kingdoms of those countries, when they had heard that the LORD fought H3898 against the enemies of Israel.

2 Chronicles 22:6 - And he returned to be healed in Jezreel because of the wounds which were given him at Ramah, when he fought H3898 with Hazael king of Syria. And Azariah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Jehoram the son of Ahab at Jezreel, because he was sick.

2 Chronicles 26:6 - And he went forth and warred H3898 against the Philistines, and brake down the wall of Gath, and the wall of Jabneh, and the wall of Ashdod, and built cities about Ashdod, and among the Philistines.

2 Chronicles 27:5 - He fought H3898 also with the king of the Ammonites, and prevailed against them. And the children of Ammon gave him the same year an hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand measures of wheat, and ten thousand of barley. So much did the children of Ammon pay unto him, both the second year, and the third.

2 Chronicles 32:8 - With him is an arm of flesh; but with us is the LORD our God to help us, and to fight H3898 our battles. And the people rested themselves upon the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.

2 Chronicles 35:20 - After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Necho king of Egypt came up to fight H3898 against Carchemish by Euphrates: and Josiah went out against him.

2 Chronicles 35:22 - Nevertheless Josiah would not turn his face from him, but disguised himself, that he might fight H3898 with him, and hearkened not unto the words of Necho from the mouth of God, and came to fight H3898 in the valley of Megiddo.

Nehemiah 4:8 - And conspired all of them together to come and to fight H3898 against Jerusalem, and to hinder it.

Nehemiah 4:14 - And I looked, and rose up, and said unto the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, Be not ye afraid of them: remember the Lord, which is great and terrible, and fight H3898 for your brethren, your sons, and your daughters, your wives, and your houses.

Nehemiah 4:20 - In what place therefore ye hear the sound of the trumpet, resort ye thither unto us: our God shall fight H3898 for us.

Psalms 35:1 - [[A Psalm of David.]] Plead my cause, O LORD, with them that strive with me: fight H3898 against them that fight H3898 against me.

Psalms 56:1 - [[To the chief Musician upon Jonathelemrechokim, Michtam of David, when the Philistines took him in Gath.]] Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he fighting H3898 daily oppresseth me.

Psalms 56:2 - Mine enemies would daily swallow me up: for they be many that fight H3898 against me, O thou most High.

Psalms 109:3 - They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought H3898 against me without a cause.

Psalms 141:4 - Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to practise wicked works with men that work iniquity: and let me not eat H3898 of their dainties.

Proverbs 4:17 - For they eat H3898 the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.

Proverbs 9:5 - Come, eat H3898 of my bread, and drink of the wine which I have mingled.

Proverbs 23:1 - When thou sittest to eat H3898 with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee:

Proverbs 23:6 - Eat H3898 thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats:

Isaiah 7:1 - And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up toward Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail H3898 against it.

Isaiah 19:2 - And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall fight H3898 every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbour; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.

Isaiah 20:1 - In the year that Tartan came unto Ashdod, (when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him,) and fought H3898 against Ashdod, and took it;

Isaiah 30:32 - And in every place where the grounded staff shall pass, which the LORD shall lay upon him, it shall be with tabrets and harps: and in battles of shaking will he fight H3898 with it.

Isaiah 37:8 - So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring H3898 against Libnah: for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.

Isaiah 37:9 - And he heard say concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, He is come forth to make war H3898 with thee. And when he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,

Isaiah 63:10 - But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought H3898 against them.

Jeremiah 1:19 - And they shall fight H3898 against thee; but they shall not prevail against thee; for I am with thee, saith the LORD, to deliver thee.

Jeremiah 15:20 - And I will make thee unto this people a fenced brasen wall: and they shall fight H3898 against thee, but they shall not prevail against thee: for I am with thee to save thee and to deliver thee, saith the LORD.

Jeremiah 21:2 - Enquire, I pray thee, of the LORD for us; for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon maketh war H3898 against us; if so be that the LORD will deal with us according to all his wondrous works, that he may go up from us.