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Strong's #3895 - לְחִי
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1) jaw, cheek
1a) jaw, jawbone (of animal)
1b) cheek (of man)
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1261) hl (להה LHh) AC: Lick CO: Moist AB: ?: The pictograph l represents authority and the tongue as the authority, the h is a picture of wall that separates the inside from the outside. Combined these mean "tongue outside". When the lips are dry, the tongue licks the lips to moisten them. (eng: lick - an exchange for the ck and h; liquid - an exchange for the q and h and the addition of the uid.)
A) hl (להה LHh) AC: ? CO: Moist AB: ?: Anything that is moist or fresh.
Nm) hl (להה LHh) - Moist: KJV (7): green, moist - Strongs: H3892 (לַח), H3893 (לֵחַ)
fm) ihl (לההי LHhY) - Jaw: From the moist cheeks. KJV (21): cheek, jaw, jawbone, bone - Strongs: H3895 (לְחִי)
B) hhl (להההה LHhHh) AC: Lick CO: ? AB: ?
V) hhl (להההה LHhHh) - Lick: [df: qql Kxl]KJV (13): (vf: Paal, Piel) lap, lick - Strongs: H3897 (לָחַךְ), H3952 (לָקַק)
C) hla (אלהה ALHh) AC: Filthy CO: ? AB: ?: [Unknown connection to root]
V) hla (אלהה ALHh) - Filthy: KJV (3): (vf: Niphal) filthy - Strongs: H444 (אָלַח)
J) hfl (לוהה LWHh) AC: ? CO: Tablet AB: ?: A common writing material is wet clay. The letters can be easily inscribed and the clay hardens to preserve the record.
Nm) hfl (לוהה LWHh) - Tablet: KJV (43): table, board, plate - Strongs: H3871 (לֻחַ)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
; on Assyrian la—û compare Dl HWB 375, but 
= — ?); — ׳ל absolute Judges 15:17; Micah 4:14; construct Judges 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 Isaiah 50:6, compare Job 16:10, etc.; לְחֵיהֶם Hosea 11:4; — 1 jaw, jawbone, of animal, Judges 15:15,16 (twice in verse); Judges 15:17 (under jaw of ass), compare proper name, of a location רָכַת לֶ֑חִי Judges 15:17; in simile עַלּלְֿחֵיהֶםכִּמְרִימֵי עֹל 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 Ezekiel 29:3); compare Ezekiel 38:4; Isaiah 30:28.
2 cheek, of Prayer of Manasseh 1Kings 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).
לְחִי f. in pause לֶ֑חִי; with suff. לֶחֱיוֹ; dual לְחָיַיִם, const. לְחָיִיִ Isaiah 30:28 with suff. לְחָיֶיךָ Ezekiel 29:4 but לְחֵיהֶם Hosea 11:4.
(1) the cheek, so called as being the seat of beauty [“from its fresh colour”]; see the root לָחָה. הִכָּה פ׳ עַל לְחִי and הִכָּה לְחָיִיִ פ׳ to smite any one on the cheek, implies castigation or insult, Mic. 4:14 1 Kings 22:24; Job 16:10 compare Isaiah 50:6; Lamentations 3:30.
(2) jaw-bone, -Judges 15:1517 ; Job 40:26 Psalms 3:8, הִכִּיתָ אֶת־כָּל־אֹיְבַי לְחִי “thou hast broken the jawbone of all my enemies:” an image taken from beasts of prey, which, when their jaw is broken and their teeth extracted, can no longer do harm. Arab. لَحْىُ id., لَحْيَةُ beard.
(3) [Lehi], pr.n. of a place on the borders of the Philistæa, Judges 15:9, 14:19 fully called רָמַת לְחִי the high place, or hill, of the jaw-bone, prob. so called from the series of abrupt rocks, (as single rocks are called teeth, see שֵׁן ; a jaw is found as the name of a mountainous place in the Chaldee pr.n. לְחַיַּת מוֹאָב for Hebr. עָר מוֹאָב, Mich. Suppl. p. 1453); the writer himself [who as being inspired is to be implicitly believed] refers it to the casting away of the jaw-bone, as if it were written רְמַת לְחִי (from the root רָמָה to throw).
