| Strong's Concordance laham: to swallow greedilyOriginal Word: לָהַם Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: laham Phonetic Spelling: (law-ham') Short Definition: morsels Brown-Driver-Briggs[לָהַם]  verb swallow greedily (= Arabic  ; DiLex, Ethiopic 25 compare Ethiopic  ox, cow); — only Hithpa`el Participle מִתְלַהֲמִים Proverbs 18:8 i.e. bits greedily swallowed, dainties, = Proverbs 26:22, simile of tale-bearer's words.  Strong's Exhaustive Concordancewound A primitive root; properly, to burn in, i.e. (figuratively) to rankle -- wound. Forms and Transliterationsכְּמִֽתְלַהֲמִ֑ים כמתלהמים kə·miṯ·la·hă·mîm kemitlahaMim kəmiṯlahămîm LinksInterlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel Texts Englishman's ConcordanceStrong's Hebrew 3859 2 Occurrences kə·miṯ·la·hă·mîm — 2 Occ. Proverbs 18:8 HEB: דִּבְרֵ֣י נִ֭רְגָּן כְּמִֽתְלַהֲמִ֑ים וְ֝הֵ֗ם יָרְד֥וּ NAS: of a whisperer are like dainty morsels, And they go down KJV: of a talebearer [are] as wounds, and they go down INT: the words of a talebearer dainty and they go Proverbs 26:22  | 



