Strong's #3898: lacham (pronounced law-kham')
a primitive root; to feed on; figuratively, to consume; by implication, to battle (as destruction):--devour, eat, X ever, fight(-ing), overcome, prevail, (make) war(-ring).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
lâcham
1) to fight, do battle, make war
1a) (Qal) to fight, do battle
1b) (Niphal) to engage in battle, wage war
2) (Qal) to eat, use as food
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root
Same Word by TWOT Number: 1104, 1105
Usage:
This word is used 177 times:
Exodus 1:10: "also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and so get them up out of the land."
Exodus 14:14: "The LORD shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace."
Exodus 14:25: "from the face of Israel; for the LORD fighteth for them against the Egyptians."
Exodus 17:8: "Then came Amalek, and fought with Israel in Rephidim."
Exodus 17:9: "Choose us out men, and go out, fight with Amalek: tomorrow I will stand"
Exodus 17:10: "as Moses had said to him, and fought with Amalek: and Moses, Aaron, and Hur"
Numbers 21:1: "came by the way of the spies; then he fought against Israel, some of them prisoners."
Numbers 21:23: "and went out against Israel into the wilderness: to Jahaz, and fought against Israel."
Numbers 21:26: "the king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab, and taken"
Numbers 22:11: "now, curse me them; peradventure I shall be able to overcome them, and drive them out."
Deuteronomy 1:30: "which goeth before you, he shall fight for you, according to all that he did for"
Deuteronomy 1:41: "against the LORD, we will go up and fight, according to all that the LORD our God"
Deuteronomy 1:42: "me, Say unto them, Go not up, neither fight; for I am not among"
Deuteronomy 3:22: "the LORD your God he shall fight"
Deuteronomy 20:4: "your God is he that goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save"
Deuteronomy 20:10: "thou comest nigh unto a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace unto"
Deuteronomy 20:19: "thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not"
Deuteronomy 32:24: "They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth"
Joshua 9:2: "That they gathered themselves together, to fight with Joshua and with Israel, with one"
Joshua 10:5: "and encamped before Gibeon, and made war against"
Joshua 10:14: "of a man: for the LORD fought"
Joshua 10:25: "your enemies against whom ye fight."
Joshua 10:29: "and all Israel with him, unto Libnah, and fought against Libnah:"
Joshua 10:31: "with him, unto Lachish, and encamped against it, and fought"
Joshua 10:34: "Israel with him; and they encamped against it, and fought against"
Joshua 10:36: "and all Israel with him, unto Hebron; and they fought against"
Joshua 10:38: "Israel with him, to Debir; and fought against"
Joshua 10:42: "the LORD God of Israel fought"
Joshua 11:5: "at the waters of Merom, to fight against Israel."
Joshua 19:47: "therefore the children of Dan went up to fight against Leshem, and took it, and smote"
Joshua 23:3: "of you; for your God is he that hath fought"
Joshua 23:10: "the LORD your God, he it is that fighteth for you, as he hath promised"
Joshua 24:8: "which dwelt on the other side Jordan; and they fought with you: and I gave them into your hand, that ye might possess"
Joshua 24:9: "king of Moab, arose and warred against Israel, and sent and called Balaam"
Joshua 24:11: "Jericho: and the men of Jericho fought against you, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, and the Hittites,"
Judges 1:1: "for us against the Canaanites to fight"
Judges 1:3: "Come up with me into my lot, that we may fight against the Canaanites; and I likewise will go"
Judges 1:5: "Adoni-bezek in Bezek: and they fought against him, and they slew the Canaanites and the Perizzites."
Judges 1:8: "Now the children of Judah had fought against Jerusalem, and had taken it, and smitten it with the edge of the sword,"
Judges 1:9: "the children of Judah went down to fight against the Canaanites, that dwelt in the mountain, and in the south,"
Judges 5:19: "The kings came and fought, then fought the kings of Canaan in Taanach"
Judges 5:19: "came and fought, then fought the kings of Canaan in Taanach by"
Judges 5:20: " They fought from heaven; the stars in their courses fought against"
Judges 5:20: "heaven; the stars in their courses fought against Sisera."
Judges 8:1: "us not, when thou wentest to fight with the Midianites? with him sharply."
Judges 9:17: "(For my father fought for you, and adventured his life far,"
Judges 9:38: "go out, I pray now, and fight"
Judges 9:39: "before the men of Shechem, and fought with Abimelech."
Judges 9:45: "And Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he took"
Judges 9:52: "came unto the tower, and fought against it, and went hard unto the door of the tower"
