Strong's Hebrew · H3897
H3897 lâchak
לָחַךְ
law-khak'
to lick
Looking for Greek G3897 paraplḗsion? It has the same number in Strong's Greek lexicon but is a different word, not a translation of H3897. Strong's numbering starts again for each language.
lâchak appears 6 times in Scripture, in Numbers, 1 Kings, Psalms, Isaiah and Micah. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.
Definition
to lick
In the King James Version
lick (up).
Derivation
a primitive root;
Appears 6 times in Scripture
“May the nomads bow before him, and his enemies lick the dust.”
“Kings will be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. They will bow to you facedown and lick the dust at your feet. Then you will know that I am the LORD; those who hope in Me will never be put to shame.””
“They will lick the dust like a snake, like reptiles slithering on the ground. They will come trembling from their strongholds in the presence of the LORD our God; they will tremble in fear of You.”
“So the Moabites said to the elders of Midian, “This horde will devour everything around us, as an ox licks up the grass of the field.” Since Balak son of Zippor was king of Moab at that time,”
“Then the fire of the LORD fell and consumed the sacrifice, the wood, the stones, and the dust, and it licked up the water in the trench.”
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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).
