Strong's #3899: lechem (pronounced lekh'-em)
from 3898; food (for man or beast), especially bread, or grain (for making it):--((shew-))bread, X eat, food, fruit, loaf, meat, victuals. See also 1036.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
lechem
1) bread, food, grain
1a) bread
1a1) bread
1a2) bread-corn
1b) food (in general)
Part of Speech: noun masculine
Relation: from H3898
Usage:
This word is used 298 times:
Psalms 102:4: "so that I forget to eat my bread."
Psalms 102:9: "For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,"
Psalms 104:14: "for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth;"
Psalms 104:15: "and oil to make his face to shine, and bread which strengtheneth man's heart."
Psalms 105:16: "he broke the whole staff of bread."
Psalms 105:40: "and he brought quails, them with the bread of heaven."
Psalms 127:2: "late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved"
Psalms 132:15: "I will abundantly bless her provision: I will satisfy with bread."
Psalms 136:25: "Who giveth food to all for his mercy endureth forever."
Psalms 146:7: "judgment for the oppressed: food to the hungry. The LORD looseth the prisoners:"
Psalms 147:9: "He giveth to the beast his food, ravens which cry."
Proverbs 4:17: "For they eat the bread and drink the wine of violence."
Proverbs 6:8: "Provideth her meat in the summer, her food in the harvest."
Proverbs 6:26: "a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious"
Proverbs 9:5: "Come, eat of my bread, of the wine which I have mingled."
Proverbs 9:17: "Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant."
Proverbs 12:9: "is better and lacketh bread."
Proverbs 12:11: "He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that followeth vain persons is void of understanding."
Proverbs 20:13: "open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread."
Proverbs 20:17: " Bread of deceit is sweet but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel."
Proverbs 22:9: "for he giveth of his bread of his bread to the poor."
Proverbs 23:3: "of his dainties: are deceitful meat."
Proverbs 23:6: "Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire"
Proverbs 25:21: "If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water"
Proverbs 27:27: "And thou shalt have goats' milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, and for the maintenance for thy maidens."
Proverbs 27:27: "milk enough for the food of thy household, and for the maintenance for thy maidens."
Proverbs 28:3: "is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food."
Proverbs 28:19: "He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread: but he that followeth after vain persons shall have poverty enough."
Proverbs 28:21: "for for a piece of bread that man will transgress."
Proverbs 30:8: "me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient"
Proverbs 30:22: "and a fool when he is filled with meat;"
Proverbs 30:25: "not yet they prepare their meat in the summer;"
Proverbs 31:14: "like the merchants' ships; her food from afar."
Proverbs 31:27: "of her household, not the bread of idleness."
Ecclesiastes 9:7: "Go thy way, eat thy bread and drink thy wine with a merry heart;"
Ecclesiastes 9:11: "to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches"
Ecclesiastes 10:19: " A feast is made for laughter, maketh merry: but money answereth"
Ecclesiastes 11:1: "Cast thy bread upon for thou shalt find it after many"
Isaiah 3:1: "and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay"
Isaiah 3:7: "a healer; for in my house is neither bread nor clothing: make me not"
Isaiah 4:1: "man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called"
Isaiah 21:14: "water to him that was thirsty, they prevented with their bread him that fled."
Isaiah 28:28: " Bread corn is bruised; because ever be threshing it, nor break it with the wheel"
Isaiah 30:20: "And though the Lord give you the bread and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers"
Isaiah 30:23: "thou shalt sow the ground withal; and bread of the increase of the earth, and it shall be fat"
Isaiah 33:16: "shall be the munitions of rocks: bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure."
Isaiah 36:17: "a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards."
Isaiah 44:15: "himself; yea, he kindleth it, and baketh bread; yea, he maketh a god, and worshipeth"
Isaiah 44:19: "the fire; yea, also I have baked bread upon the coals thereof; I have roasted flesh,"
Isaiah 51:14: "die in the pit, nor that his bread should fail."
