Feed To Fight




Reflection

Lecham means bread or food. It comes from the root word Lacham.

Lacham means eat, fight.

When we feed on the Word of God, we fight.



Lecham (Bread, food)
Strong's #3899: lechem (pronounced lekh'-em)
from 3898; food (for man or beast), especially bread, or grain (for making it):--((shew-))bread, X eat, food, fruit, loaf, meat, victuals. See also 1036.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
lechem
1.  bread, food, grain
    (1a) bread
           (1a1) bread
           (1a2) bread-corn
    (1b) food (in general)

Part of Speech: noun masculine
Source: https://www.bibletools.org/index.cfm/fuse action/Lexicon.show/ID/H3898/lacham.htm

Lacham (Eat, fight)
Strong's #3898: lacham (pronounced law-kham')
a primitive root; to feed on; figuratively, to consume; by implication, to battle (as destruction):--devour, eat, X ever, fight(-ing), overcome, prevail, (make) war(-ring).

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
lâcham
1.  to fight, do battle, make war
     (1a) (Qal) to fight, do battle
     (1b) (Niphal) to engage in battle, wage war
2.  (Qal) to eat, use as food

Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root
Source: https://www.bibletools.org/index.cfm/fuseaction/Lexicon.show/ID/H3898/lacham.htm

Lecham (bread, food) is from the root word Lacham (eat, fight).

When we eat or feed on the word of God, we fight.

Ephesians 6:12 Amplified Bible (AMP)
For our struggle is not against flesh and blood [contending only with physical opponents], but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this [present] darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly (supernatural) places.

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