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Bible Lexicons

Old Testament Hebrew Lexical DictionaryHebrew Lexicon

Strong's #3959 - לֶשֶׁם

Transliteration

Leshem

Phonetics

leh'-shem

Origin

the same as (H3958)

Parts of Speech

proper locative noun

TWOT

None

Definition

Brown-Driver-Briggs
Strong

Brown-Driver-Briggs' Definition

Leshem = "precious stone"
1. a city west of Mount Hermon, also called ´Laish´ and later ´Dan´

Frequency Lists

Book
Word

Verse Results

ASV (2)

Joshua 2

BSB (2)

Joshua 2

CSB (2)

Joshua 2

ESV (2)

Joshua 2

KJV (2)

Joshua 2

LEB (2)

Joshua 2

LSB (2)

Joshua 2

N95 (2)

Joshua 2

NAS (2)

Joshua 2

NLT (0)

The World English Bible
did not use
this Strong's Number

WEB (2)

Joshua 2

Brown-Driver-Briggs Expanded Definition

II. לֶ֫שֶׁם proper name, of a location variant of לַיִשׁ (whence We^{De Gent 37}) Di read לֵשָׁם; Lag^{BN 20 Anm.} thinks ם remnant of Mimmation, לֶשֶׁם from לַיִשׁ = Laišum), old, name of city דָּן (see לַיִשׁ), Joshua 19:47 (twice in verse) (compare Di), ᵐ5^B Λαχεις, לֶשֶׁם דָּן = Λασεννδακ, ᵐ5^A ᵐ5^L Λεσεν.

לשׁן (√ of following; Thes conjectures original meaning lick (compare , , ), so Hup-Now^{Psalm 32:4}).

Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Definition

לֶשֶׁם m.

(1) a kind of precious stone, Exodus 28:19, 39:12. LXX. λιγύριον. Vulgate ligurius, Germ. Opal.

(2) Joshua 19:47, a town, otherwise called לַיִשׁ and דָּן.

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List of Word Forms

לְלֶ֙שֶׁם֙ לֶ֜שֶׁם ללשם לשם lə·le·šem le·šem ləlešem leLeshem lešem Leshem