King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H3859
Transliteration: laham
Phonetic Spelling: (law-ham')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to swallow greedily
Meaning: to burn in, to rankle
Word Summary
laham: to swallow greedily
Original Word: לָהַםTransliteration: laham
Phonetic Spelling: (law-ham')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to swallow greedily
Meaning: to burn in, to rankle
Strong's Concordance
wound A primitive root; properly, to burn in, i.e. (figuratively) to rankle -- wound.
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H3859. laham
[לָהַם] verb swallow greedily (= Arabic ; DiLex, Ethiopic 25 compare Ethiopic ox, cow); — only
Hithpa`el Participle מִתְלַהֲמִים Proverbs 18:8 i.e. bits greedily swallowed, dainties, = 26:22, simile of tale-bearer's words.