Hebrew words starting with lamed
140 words in the Bible begin with lamed (ל), listed most frequent first. Every word links to its meaning, its attested forms, and the verses it appears in.
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- loלֹאnotnot studied yet
- laqaḥלָקַחto take: to lay hold of someone or something and bring it into your hand, your possession, or your keeping
- levלֵבthe heart: the hidden inner center of a person, where one thinks, decides, feels, and stands answerable to God
- leḥemלֶחֶםbread: a baked loaf, the physical product of ground grain.
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- food: sustenance broadly, including meals, livelihood, and the grain supply that keeps people alive.
- leviyyiלֵוִיLevite: a man of the tribe of Levi, the family line Israel set apart for the work of its sanctuary instead of giving it land of its own
- levavלֵבָבheartnot studied yet
- laylahלַיְלָהnight: the dark stretch of hours from sunset to sunrise, the standing counterpart of the daylight
- laḥamלָחַםto fight, do battle, wage war
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- to eat, feed on, consume
- lakhadלָכַדto seize and take control of someone or something, by force or as if caught in a trap
- lashonלָשׁוֹןthe tongue: the organ in the mouth, and by extension the speech it produces
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- a language: the tongue a people speaks, and so the people marked off by it
- a tongue: something shaped like a tongue, such as a wedge of metal, an inlet of the sea, or a flame
- lavashלָבֵשׁto put a garment on a body: to get dressed, to wear, or to dress someone else
- lamadלָמַדto learn or teach: to transmit knowledge, skill, or conduct through instruction and practice
- lunלוּןto spend the night, lodge, or stay put somewhere for a while
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- to grumble in faithless complaint against God or the leaders he has appointed
- levanonלְבָנוֹןLebanon: the cedar-covered mountain range north of Israel, and the byword for towering grandeur that its forests became.
- leviלֵוִיLevi: a man's name, borne by Jacob's third son by Leah, the ancestor from whom Israel's sanctuary tribe is reckoned
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- Levi: the tribe descended from Jacob's third son, Israel's landless tribe set apart to care for the sanctuary
- lavanלָבָןLabannot studied yet
- lishkahלִשְׁכָּהa chamber: a room built into or alongside a larger building, almost always the temple
- lu'aḥלוּחַa flat slab of stone or wood: a writing tablet, or a board or plank
- laqatלָקַטto pick up scattered items one by one, gathering them off the ground or a surface
- le'ahלֵאָהLeahnot studied yet
- levushלְבוּשׁclothing: an article of clothing worn on the body, or a covering pictured as one
- lotלוֹטLotnot studied yet
- le'omלְאֹםa people or nation: a distinct body of people forming one ethnic or political group; a lofty, poetic word, most often used in the plural ("peoples")
- lavanלָבָןwhite: the pale, bright color of milk, snow, or bleached wool
- lutsלִיץto mock with proud contempt; a scoffer who sneers at correction
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- to mediate through speech; a go-between who carries words across a gap: an interpreter, envoy, or advocate
- lavahלָוָהto attach oneself to another, becoming joined, allied, or bound to them.
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- to take or give a loan: to borrow, or, seen from the other side, to lend.
- lakhishלָכִישׁLachishnot studied yet
- luלוּifnot studied yet
- levonahלְבֹנָהthe fragrant white resin from Boswellia trees, burned as incense in Israelite worship and prized as an imported luxury
- leḥiלְחִיthe jaw or cheek: the side of the face at the jaw, whether the bone itself, the flesh over it, or the whole hinge of an animal's mouth
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- Lehi: a place in Judah whose name is the ordinary word for a jawbone
- la'ahלָאָהto be worn out: to spend one's strength or patience to the point of not being able to go on, or to wear another out that way
- lehavahלֶהָבָהa flame: the leaping, visible tongue of a burning fire
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- the blade of a spear: its gleaming, flame-shaped metal head
- laḥatsלָחַץto bear down on with crushing pressure: to press or squeeze something physically, and so to oppress or afflict a person or a people
- livnahלִבְנָהLibnahnot studied yet
- la'agלָעַגto mock: to treat someone with open, jeering contempt, usually with derisive laughter
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- of a foreign tongue: to sound like unintelligible babble to the hearer
- laviלָבִיאa lion: the grown animal in its full strength, and in the female form a lioness
- luleלוּלֵאunlessnot studied yet
- lulayלוּלַיa loop: one of the yarn eyes sewn along the edge of a tabernacle curtain, which a clasp was pushed through to join two panels
- lappidלַפִּידa handheld torch: a kindled flame on a shaft, and the bright fiery flash it pictures
- levenahלְבֵנָהa brick: a block of clay pressed into a mold and hardened in the sun or fired in a kiln
- lahavלַהַבa flame: the bright tongue of fire that leaps up off whatever is burning
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- the blade of a weapon: the cutting metal of a sword, dagger or spear, as against its handle
- laḥatsלַחַץoppression: the crushing weight a stronger party presses down on someone, and the hardship of living under it
- lahatלָהַטto blaze: to burn with open flame, and so to set something alight or burn it to nothing
- lemekhלֶמֶךְLamech: a man's name of unknown meaning, borne by two men who lived before the flood, the boastful killer who closes Cain's family line and the father of Noah who closes Seth's
- leqaḥלֶקַחteaching thought of from the receiving end: the content a teacher hands over, and the store of understanding a hearer takes in and adds to
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- persuasive power in speech: the quality that makes words go down easily and win a hearer over
- lo devarלֹא דְבָרLo-debarnot studied yet
- lavenלָבֵןto turn white: to become white, or to make something white, most often as the picture of a stain being washed out
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- to make bricks: to shape and harden mud bricks for building
- luzלוּזLuznot studied yet
- la'anahלַעֲנָהwormwood: a bitter desert shrub, used in the Bible only as an image of ruinous bitterness, the taste of judgment or of justice gone poisonous
- libbahלִבָּהthe heart: the hidden inner self where a person thinks, wants, and decides, named by the rarer of Hebrew's two words for heart and used mostly of the hearts God searches
- lotanלוֹטָןLotannot studied yet
- layishלַיִשׁLaish: the Canaanite city at the far northern edge of the land that the tribe of Dan captured, burned, and renamed Dan
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- Laishah: a small town in Benjamin, just north of Jerusalem, named once in a list of settlements along an invading army's route
- Laish: a man of Gallim, the father of Palti (also called Paltiel), to whom Saul gave his daughter Michal
- la'agלַעַגderision: contempt that has gone public, either the disgrace of being laughed at or the scornful talk itself
- ladanלַעְדָּןLadannot studied yet
- laqaqלָקַקto lap or lick: to take liquid up with the tongue, straight from where it lies
- luzלוּזbe deviousnot studied yet
- livyatanלִוְיָתָןLeviathan: a vast coiling sea-serpent, the legendary chaos-monster of the deep that only God can master
- laḥלַחfreshnot studied yet
- laḥakhלָחַךְto licknot studied yet
- latלָטsecrecynot studied yet
- limmudלִמֻּדtaught, trained: someone or something that instruction or long practice has shaped into a settled way of being.
- lavavלָבַבto act on the heart: to seize hold of someone's inner self, or to gain such an inner self where there was none
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- to make heart cakes: to prepare by hand the small dish of dough, named after the word for heart, that was fed to a man on his sickbed
- livniלִבְנִיLibninot studied yet
- logלֹגlognot studied yet
- ludלוּדLudnot studied yet
- lushלוּשׁto kneadnot studied yet
- laḥashלַחַשׁcharmnot studied yet
- latashלָטַשׁto sharpennot studied yet
- lo ruḥamahלֹא רֻחָמָהNo Mercynot studied yet
- lodלֹדLodnot studied yet
- luviלוּבLibyannot studied yet
- lemoלְמוֹuponnot studied yet
- lavatלָבַטto ruinnot studied yet
- lavivahלְבִבָהcakenot studied yet
- levanahלְבָנָהmoonnot studied yet
- ludiלוּדִיLuditenot studied yet
- lutלוּטto wrapnot studied yet
- leḥiלֶחִיLehinot studied yet
- laḥashלָחַשׁto whispernot studied yet
- loyahלֹיָהwreathnot studied yet
- layishלַיִשׁlion: a rare, elevated poetic word for the lion as a picture of power and menace
- laphatלָפַתto twistnot studied yet
- latsonלָצוֹןscorningnot studied yet
- latלָאטsecrecy: the cover under which something is done so that nobody notices it happening
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- secret arts: the hidden craft by which trained specialists produce effects nobody can account for
- lo ammiלֹא עַמִּיNot My Peoplenot studied yet
- levanaלְבָנָאLebanahnot studied yet
- livnehלִבְנֶהpoplarnot studied yet
- livniלִבְנִיLibnitenot studied yet
- lehavimלְהָבִיםLehabimnot studied yet
- lahahלָהַהto languishnot studied yet
- lahamלָהַםto swallownot studied yet
- lahenלָהֵןthereforenot studied yet
- luḥitלוּחִיתLuhithnot studied yet
- livyahלִוְיָהwreathnot studied yet
- lu'aלוּעַto swallow, to gulp something all the way down the throat
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- to talk wildly: to let words out faster than thought can weigh them
- laḥumלְחוּםintestinenot studied yet
- lotלֹטmyrrhnot studied yet
- lemu'elלְמוּאֵלLemuelnot studied yet
- la'egלָעֵגmockingnot studied yet
- leqetלֶקֶטgleaningnot studied yet
- leqeshלֶקֶשׁspring cropnot studied yet
- leshadלָשָׁדjuicy bitnot studied yet
- leshemלֶשֶׁםjacinthnot studied yet
- leshemלֶשֶׁםLeshemnot studied yet
- lashanלָשַׁןto slandernot studied yet
- la'atלָאַטto covernot studied yet
- la'elלָאֵלLaelnot studied yet
- le'ummimלְאֻמִּיםLeummimnot studied yet
- leva'otלְבָאוֹתLebaothnot studied yet
- labbahלַבָּהflamenot studied yet
- levonahלְבוֹנָהLebonahnot studied yet
- lahagלַהַגstudynot studied yet
- lahadלָהַדLahadnot studied yet
- lahatלַהַטflame: fire seen as a leaping, blazing tongue of light and heat
- lahaqahלַהֲקָהcompanynot studied yet
- luzלוּזalmondnot studied yet
- lotלוֹטcoveringnot studied yet
- lulלוּלstairsnot studied yet
- lezutלָזוּתperversitynot studied yet
- le'aḥלֵחַvigornot studied yet
- laḥemלָחֶםwarnot studied yet
- laḥmiלַחְמִיLahminot studied yet
- laḥmasלַחְמָסLahmamnot studied yet
- leta'ahלְטָאָהlizardnot studied yet
- letushimלְטוּשִׁםLetushimnot studied yet
- lilitלִילִיתa haunting creature of the ruined wilderness, most likely a restless desert spirit invoked alongside real night animals in a picture of total desolation
- lekhedלֶכֶדcapturenot studied yet
- lekhahלֵכָהLecahnot studied yet
- lo'aלֹעַthe throat as the passage food goes down: the gullet, the part of you that swallows
- la'avלָעַבto jestnot studied yet
- ladahלַעְדָּהLaadahnot studied yet
- la'azלָעַזto mumblenot studied yet
- la'atלָעַטto eatnot studied yet
- lappidotלַפִּידוֹתLappidothnot studied yet
- laqqumלַקּוּםLakkumnot studied yet
- liqḥiלִקְחִיLikhinot studied yet
- laqashלָקַשׁto gleannot studied yet
- lesahלֶשַׁעLashanot studied yet
- letekhלֶתֶךְletheknot studied yet
- mutלַבֵּן(Muth-)labbennot studied yet