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:
1 Kings 20:23: "therefore they were stronger than we; but let us fight them in the plain, and surely,"
1 Kings 20:25: "that thou hast lost, horse for horse, and chariot for chariot: and we will fight against them in the plain,"
1 Kings 22:31: "his chariots, saying, Fight neither small nor great,"
1 Kings 22:32: "is the king of Israel. And they turned aside to fight against him: and Jehoshaphat cried out."
1 Kings 22:45: "that he showed, and how he warred, are they not written in"
2 Kings 3:21: "that the kings were come up to fight against them, they gathered all that were able to put on"
2 Kings 6:8: "Then the king of Syria warred against Israel, and took counsel with his servants, saying,"
2 Kings 8:29: "the Syrians had given him at Ramah, when he fought against king of Syria."
2 Kings 9:15: "which the Syrians had given him, when he fought with Hazael of Syria.)"
2 Kings 10:3: "of your master's sons, and set him on his father's throne, and fight for your master's"
2 Kings 12:17: "king of Syria went up, and fought against Gath, and took it: and Hazael"
2 Kings 13:12: "he did, and his might wherewith he fought against Amaziah king of Judah,"
2 Kings 14:15: "he did, and his might, and how he fought with Amaziah king of Judah,"
2 Kings 14:28: "he did, and his might, how he warred, and how he recovered Damascus,"
2 Kings 16:5: "and they besieged but could not overcome"
2 Kings 19:8: "the king of Assyria warring against Libnah: for he had heard"
2 Kings 19:9: "of Ethiopia, Behold, he is come out to fight against thee: he sent messengers again"
1 Chronicles 10:1: "Now the Philistines fought against Israel; and the men of Israel fled from before"
1 Chronicles 18:10: "of his welfare, and to congratulate him, because he had fought against Hadarezer, him; (for"
1 Chronicles 19:17: "them. So when David against the Syrians, they fought with"
2 Chronicles 11:1: "thousand chosen men, which were warriors, to fight against Israel, that he might bring"
2 Chronicles 11:4: "Ye shall not go up, nor fight against your brethren: return every man"
2 Chronicles 13:12: "against you. O children of Israel, fight ye not the LORD God"
2 Chronicles 17:10: "that were round about Judah, so that they made no war against Jehoshaphat."
2 Chronicles 18:30: "of the chariots that were with him, saying, Fight ye not with small or"
2 Chronicles 18:31: "of Israel. Therefore they compassed about him to fight: but Jehoshaphat cried out, and the LORD helped"
2 Chronicles 20:17: "Ye shall not need to fight in this battle: set yourselves, stand ye still, and see the salvation"
2 Chronicles 20:29: "when they had heard that the LORD fought against the enemies"
2 Chronicles 22:6: "which were given him at Ramah, when he fought with Hazael king of Syria."
2 Chronicles 26:6: "And he went forth and warred against the Philistines, and broke down the wall of Gath, and the wall"
2 Chronicles 27:5: "He fought also with the king of the Ammonites, and prevailed against"
2 Chronicles 32:8: "us is the LORD our God to help us, and to fight our battles. And the people rested themselves upon"
2 Chronicles 35:20: "king of Egypt came up to fight by Euphrates: and Josiah"
2 Chronicles 35:22: "from him, but disguised himself, that he might fight with him, and hearkened not unto the words"
2 Chronicles 35:22: "of God, and came to fight in the valley of Megiddo."
Nehemiah 4:8: "all of them together to come and to fight against Jerusalem, and to hinder"
Nehemiah 4:14: "the Lord, which is great and terrible, and fight for your brethren, your sons,"
Nehemiah 4:20: "ye thither unto us: our God shall fight"
Psalms 35:1: "my cause, O LORD, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against"
Psalms 35:1: "them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against"
Psalms 56:1: "for man would swallow me up; he fighting daily oppresseth"
Psalms 56:2: "would daily swallow me up: for they be many that fight against me, O thou most High."
Psalms 109:3: "They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause."
Psalms 141:4: "that work iniquity: and let me not eat of their dainties."
Proverbs 4:17: "For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence."
Proverbs 9:5: "Come, eat of my bread, and drink of the wine which I have mingled."
Proverbs 23:1: "When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently"
Proverbs 23:6: " Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire"
Isaiah 7:1: "against it, but could not prevail against"
Isaiah 19:2: "And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbor;"
