Strong's Concordance H3899

Original Word: לֶחֶם
Transliteration: lechem
Phonetic Spelling: lekh'-em
from H3898; See also H1036; food (for man or beast), especially bread, or grain (for making it); (shew-) bread, × eat, food, fruit, loaf, meat, victuals.

Usages throughout the bible

1 Samuel 21:4 - And the priest answered David, and said, There is no common bread H3899 under mine hand, but there is hallowed bread; H3899 if the young men have kept themselves at least from women.

1 Samuel 21:6 - So the priest gave him hallowed bread: for there was no bread H3899 there but the shewbread, H3899 that was taken from before the LORD, to put hot bread H3899 in the day when it was taken away.

1 Samuel 22:13 - And Saul said unto him, Why have ye conspired against me, thou and the son of Jesse, in that thou hast given him bread, H3899 and a sword, and hast enquired of God for him, that he should rise against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?

1 Samuel 25:11 - Shall I then take my bread, H3899 and my water, and my flesh that I have killed for my shearers, and give it unto men, whom I know not whence they be?

1 Samuel 25:18 - Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, H3899 and two bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched corn, and an hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on asses.

1 Samuel 28:20 - Then Saul fell straightway all along on the earth, and was sore afraid, because of the words of Samuel: and there was no strength in him; for he had eaten no bread H3899 all the day, nor all the night.

1 Samuel 28:22 - Now therefore, I pray thee, hearken thou also unto the voice of thine handmaid, and let me set a morsel of bread H3899 before thee; and eat, that thou mayest have strength, when thou goest on thy way.

1 Samuel 30:11 - And they found an Egyptian in the field, and brought him to David, and gave him bread, H3899 and he did eat; and they made him drink water;

1 Samuel 30:12 - And they gave him a piece of a cake of figs, and two clusters of raisins: and when he had eaten, his spirit came again to him: for he had eaten no bread, H3899 nor drunk any water, three days and three nights.

2 Samuel 3:29 - Let it rest on the head of Joab, and on all his father's house; and let there not fail from the house of Joab one that hath an issue, or that is a leper, or that leaneth on a staff, or that falleth on the sword, or that lacketh bread. H3899

2 Samuel 3:35 - And when all the people came to cause David to eat meat H3899 while it was yet day, David sware, saying, So do God to me, and more also, if I taste bread, H3899 or ought else, till the sun be down.

2 Samuel 6:19 - And he dealt among all the people, even among the whole multitude of Israel, as well to the women as men, to every one a cake of bread, H3899 and a good piece of flesh, and a flagon of wine. So all the people departed every one to his house.

2 Samuel 9:7 - And David said unto him, Fear not: for I will surely shew thee kindness for Jonathan thy father's sake, and will restore thee all the land of Saul thy father; and thou shalt eat bread H3899 at my table continually.

2 Samuel 9:10 - Thou therefore, and thy sons, and thy servants, shall till the land for him, and thou shalt bring in the fruits, that thy master's son may have food H3899 to eat: but Mephibosheth thy master's son shall eat bread H3899 alway at my table. Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.

2 Samuel 12:17 - And the elders of his house arose, and went to him, to raise him up from the earth: but he would not, neither did he eat bread H3899 with them.

2 Samuel 12:20 - Then David arose from the earth, and washed, and anointed himself, and changed his apparel, and came into the house of the LORD, and worshipped: then he came to his own house; and when he required, they set bread H3899 before him, and he did eat.

2 Samuel 12:21 - Then said his servants unto him, What thing is this that thou hast done? thou didst fast and weep for the child, while it was alive; but when the child was dead, thou didst rise and eat bread. H3899

2 Samuel 13:5 - And Jonadab said unto him, Lay thee down on thy bed, and make thyself sick: and when thy father cometh to see thee, say unto him, I pray thee, let my sister Tamar come, and give me meat, H3899 and dress the meat in my sight, that I may see it, and eat it at her hand.

2 Samuel 16:1 - And when David was a little past the top of the hill, behold, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him, with a couple of asses saddled, and upon them two hundred loaves of bread, H3899 and an hundred bunches of raisins, and an hundred of summer fruits, and a bottle of wine.

2 Samuel 16:2 - And the king said unto Ziba, What meanest thou by these? And Ziba said, The asses be for the king's household to ride on; and the bread H3899 and summer fruit for the young men to eat; and the wine, that such as be faint in the wilderness may drink.

1 Kings 4:22 - And Solomon's provision H3899 for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and threescore measures of meal,

1 Kings 5:9 - My servants shall bring them down from Lebanon unto the sea: and I will convey them by sea in floats unto the place that thou shalt appoint me, and will cause them to be discharged there, and thou shalt receive them: and thou shalt accomplish my desire, in giving food H3899 for my household.

1 Kings 7:48 - And Solomon made all the vessels that pertained unto the house of the LORD: the altar of gold, and the table of gold, whereupon the shewbread H3899 was,

1 Kings 11:18 - And they arose out of Midian, and came to Paran: and they took men with them out of Paran, and they came to Egypt, unto Pharaoh king of Egypt; which gave him an house, and appointed him victuals, H3899 and gave him land.

1 Kings 13:8 - And the man of God said unto the king, If thou wilt give me half thine house, I will not go in with thee, neither will I eat bread H3899 nor drink water in this place:

1 Kings 13:9 - For so was it charged me by the word of the LORD, saying, Eat no bread, H3899 nor drink water, nor turn again by the same way that thou camest.

1 Kings 13:15 - Then he said unto him, Come home with me, and eat bread. H3899

1 Kings 13:16 - And he said, I may not return with thee, nor go in with thee: neither will I eat bread H3899 nor drink water with thee in this place:

1 Kings 13:17 - For it was said to me by the word of the LORD, Thou shalt eat no bread H3899 nor drink water there, nor turn again to go by the way that thou camest.

1 Kings 13:18 - He said unto him, I am a prophet also as thou art; and an angel spake unto me by the word of the LORD, saying, Bring him back with thee into thine house, that he may eat bread H3899 and drink water. But he lied unto him.

1 Kings 13:19 - So he went back with him, and did eat bread H3899 in his house, and drank water.

1 Kings 13:22 - But camest back, and hast eaten bread H3899 and drunk water in the place, of the which the LORD did say to thee, Eat no bread, H3899 and drink no water; thy carcase shall not come unto the sepulchre of thy fathers.

1 Kings 13:23 - And it came to pass, after he had eaten bread, H3899 and after he had drunk, that he saddled for him the ass, to wit, for the prophet whom he had brought back.

1 Kings 14:3 - And take with thee ten loaves, H3899 and cracknels, and a cruse of honey, and go to him: he shall tell thee what shall become of the child.

1 Kings 17:6 - And the ravens brought him bread H3899 and flesh in the morning, and bread H3899 and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook.

1 Kings 17:11 - And as she was going to fetch it, he called to her, and said, Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread H3899 in thine hand.

1 Kings 18:4 - For it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the LORD, that Obadiah took an hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread H3899 and water.)

1 Kings 18:13 - Was it not told my lord what I did when Jezebel slew the prophets of the LORD, how I hid an hundred men of the LORD'S prophets by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread H3899 and water?

1 Kings 21:4 - And Ahab came into his house heavy and displeased because of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him: for he had said, I will not give thee the inheritance of my fathers. And he laid him down upon his bed, and turned away his face, and would eat no bread. H3899

1 Kings 21:5 - But Jezebel his wife came to him, and said unto him, Why is thy spirit so sad, that thou eatest no bread? H3899

1 Kings 21:7 - And Jezebel his wife said unto him, Dost thou now govern the kingdom of Israel? arise, and eat bread, H3899 and let thine heart be merry: I will give thee the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.

2 Kings 4:8 - And it fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where was a great woman; and she constrained him to eat bread. H3899 And so it was, that as oft as he passed by, he turned in thither to eat bread. H3899

2 Kings 4:42 - And there came a man from Baalshalisha, and brought the man of God bread H3899 of the firstfruits, twenty loaves H3899 of barley, and full ears of corn in the husk thereof. And he said, Give unto the people, that they may eat.

2 Kings 6:22 - And he answered, Thou shalt not smite them: wouldest thou smite those whom thou hast taken captive with thy sword and with thy bow? set bread H3899 and water before them, that they may eat and drink, and go to their master.

2 Kings 18:32 - Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread H3899 and vineyards, a land of oil olive and of honey, that ye may live, and not die: and hearken not unto Hezekiah, when he persuadeth you, saying, The LORD will deliver us.

2 Kings 25:3 - And on the ninth day of the fourth month the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread H3899 for the people of the land.

2 Kings 25:29 - And changed his prison garments: and he did eat bread H3899 continually before him all the days of his life.

1 Chronicles 9:32 - And other of their brethren, of the sons of the Kohathites, were over the shewbread, H3899 to prepare it every sabbath.

1 Chronicles 12:40 - Moreover they that were nigh them, even unto Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali, brought bread H3899 on asses, and on camels, and on mules, and on oxen, and meat, meal, cakes of figs, and bunches of raisins, and wine, and oil, and oxen, and sheep abundantly: for there was joy in Israel.

1 Chronicles 16:3 - And he dealt to every one of Israel, both man and woman, to every one a loaf of bread, H3899 and a good piece of flesh, and a flagon of wine.