לחם

לחם • (laḥm) m

1. Judeo-Arabic spelling of لَحْم (laḥm, “meat”)‎‎
   • c. 10th century, Saadia Gaon, Tafsir‎, Numbers 11:4:

     ואללפיף אלד֗ין פימא בינהם תשהו שהוה פרג֗ע בנו אסראיל איצ֗א מעהם ובכו וקאלו מן יטעמנא לחמא

     And the crowd who were among them felt a craving, and the Israelites also wept with them and said, Let us have meat!

Cognate with Arabic لَحْم (laḥm, “meat”). The varying semantic developments are due to the differing agriculture and diets of the Arabian Peninsula and the Fertile Crescent.

• (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ˈleχem/
• (Tiberian Hebrew) IPA^(key): [ˈlɛːχɛm]

לֶחֶם • (lékhem) m (singular construct לֶחֶם־, Biblical Hebrew pausal form לָחֶם) [pattern: קֶטֶל]

1. bread
2. (archaic or poetic) food
3. (poetic) grain from which bread is made

• בֵּית לֶחֶם (beit lékhem)
• לֶחֶם מִשְׁנֶה (lékhem mishné)
• לחמנייה / לַחְמָנִיָּה (lakhmaniyá)

• H3899 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible

• חלם, חמל, מלח