Lexical Summary lechi: jaw, cheek Original Word: לְחִיTransliteration: lechi Phonetic Spelling: (lekh-ee') Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: jaw, cheek Meaning: the cheek, the jaw-bone Strong's Concordance cheek bone, jaw bone From an unused root meaning to be soft; the cheek (from its fleshiness); hence, the jaw-bone -- cheek (bone), jaw (bone). Brown-Driver-Briggs H3895. lechi I. לְחִי noun masculineSong of Solomon 1:10 jaw, cheek (Late Hebrew id.; Aramaic לוֺחָא; Arabic ; on Assyrian la—û compare DlHWB 375, but = — ?); — ׳ל absolute Judges 15:17; Micah 4:14; construct 15:15 2t.; לֶ֑חִי 1 Kings 22:24 3t. + Judges 15:19 (twice in verse); suffix לֶחֱיוֺ Job 40:26; לֶחֱיָהּ Lamentations 1:2; dual לְחָיַיִּם Deuteronomy 18:3; construct לְחָיֵי Isaiah 30:28; suffix לְחָיַי 50:6, compare Job 16:10, etc.; לְחֵיהֶם Hosea 11:4; — 1 jaw, jawbone, of animal, Judges 15:15-16, (twice in verse); 15:17 (under jaw of ass), compare proper name, of a location לֶ֑חִי רָכַת 15:17; in simile עֹל כִּמְרִימֵי עַלּלְֿחֵיהֶם Hosea 11:4 like those lifting up a yoke from upon (read מֵעַל ?) their jaws (Israel under figure of oxen); of sacrificial ox or sheep Deuteronomy 18:3; of crocodile Job 40:26; of Pharaoh under figure of תַּנִּים Ezekiel 29:4 (compare 29:3); compare 38:4; Isaiah 30:28. 2 cheek, of man 1 Kings 22:24 2 Chronicles 18:23; Job 16:10; Psalm 3:8; Song of Solomon 5:13; Isaiah 50:6; Lamentations 3:30; Micah 4:14; of woman Song of Solomon 1:10; Lamentations 1:2 (figurative of Jerusalem). |
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