HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H3895
לְחִי
le.chi — Lehi
This name means jaw, cheek Another name of le.chi (לֶחִי "Lehi" H3896)
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Lehi
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HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H3896
לֶחִי
le.chi — Lehi
Lehi = "jaw" a place in Judah which must have been in the Shephelah, near the border of the hill-country of Judah; site uncertain place is noted for being the location of Samson's killing of 1000 men with the jawbone of an ass Also named: le.chi (לְחִי "Lehi" H3895)
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רָמַת לֶחִי
ra.mat le.chi — Ramath-lehi
§ Ramath-lehi = "height of a jawbone" a place by the rock Elam in northern Judah near the border of the Philistines; named by Samson after his slaughter of the 1000 Philistines with the jawbone of an ass
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A jawbone, a place in the tribe of Judah where Samson achieved a victory over the Philistines (Judg. 15:9, 14, 16), slaying a thousand of them with the jawbone of an ass. The words in 15:19, “a hollow place that was in the jaw” (A.V.), should be, as in Revised Version, “the hollow place that is in Lehi.”
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Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.