לֶחֶם lechem — food (for man or beast), especially bread, or grain (for making it)
Translated in the KJV as bread, × eat, food, fruit, loaf, meat, victuals.
from H3898; See also H1036; food (for man or beast), especially bread, or grain (for making it).
lechem in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it
Infinitive construct 1
לַחְמָֽם Job 30:4 Infinitive construct
Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›