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H3895 לְחִי (lᵉchîy) lekh-ee'
Hebrew
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Strong's Definition

from an unused root meaning to be soft; the cheek (from its fleshiness); hence, the jaw-bone

KJV Usage: cheek (bone), jaw (bone)

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

לְחִי (le.chi) — Lehi. This name means jaw, cheek Another name of le.chi (לֶחִי "Lehi" H3896)

לְחִי (le.chi) — jaw. 1) jaw, cheek 1a) jaw, jawbone (of animal) 1b) cheek (of man)

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

noun m

jaw, jawbone, cheek = the lower bony structure of the skull of humans and certain animals that forms the framework of the mouth and holds the teeth

DEU 18:3 · JDG 15:15 · JDG 15:16 · JDG 15:16 · JDG 15:17 · 1KI 22:24 · 2CH 18:23 · JOB 16:10 · JOB 40:26 · PSA 3:8 · SNG 1:10 · SNG 5:13 · ISA 30:28 · ISA 50:6 · LAM 1:2 · LAM 3:30 · EZK 29:4 · EZK 38:4 · HOS 11:4 · MIC 4:14

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Names of Locations

Lehi = location; ◄ near the border with Philistia ► where Samson killed many Philistines with a donkey jawbone

JDG 15:9 · JDG 15:14 · JDG 15:17 · JDG 15:19 · JDG 15:19

Reinier de Blois

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

לְחִי n.m. jaw, cheek jaw, jawbone, of animal

cheek, of man

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