לחם

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Arabic

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Noun

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לחם (transliteration neededm

  1. Judeo-Arabic spelling of لَحْم (laḥm, meat)‎‎
    • c. 10th century, Saadia Gaon, Tafsir[1], Numbers 11:4:
      ואללפיף אלד֗ין פימא בינהם תשהו שהוה פרג֗ע בנו אסראיל איצ֗א מעהם ובכו וקאלו מן יטעמנא לחמא
      And the crowd who were among them felt a craving, and the Israelites also wept with them and said, Let us have meat!

Hebrew

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Root
ל־ח־ם (l-kh-m)

Etymology

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Cognate with Arabic لَحْم (laḥm, meat). The varying semantic developments are due to the differing agriculture and diets of the Arabian Peninsula and the Fertile Crescent.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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לֶחֶם (lékhemm (singular construct לֶחֶם־, Biblical Hebrew pausal form לָחֶם) [pattern: קֶטֶל]

  1. bread
  2. (archaic or poetic) food
  3. (poetic) grain from which bread is made

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