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Strong's #3962 - לֶשַׁע

Transliteration

Leshaʻ

Phonetics

leh'-shah

Origin

from an unused root thought to mean to break through

Parts of Speech

TWOT

None

Definition

Brown-Driver-Briggs
Strong

Brown-Driver-Briggs'

Lasha = “fissure”

1) a place in the southeast of Palestine at the limit of the Canaanites territory, near Sodom and Gomorrah

Frequency Lists

Book
Word

Verse Results

KJV (1)

Genesis 1

NAS (1)

Genesis 1

HCS (1)

Genesis 1

BSB (2)

Genesis 2

ESV (1)

Genesis 1

WEB (1)

Genesis 1

Brown-Driver-Briggs Expanded Definition

[לֶ֫שַׁע] proper name, of a location near Sodom and Gomorrah, only לָ֑שַׁע Genesis 10:19; ᵐ5 D Δασα; E ᵐ5^L Λασα; site unknown; = Kallirrho-, with hot-springs, Jerome^{Quaest in Genesis , (10.19)}, compare Buhl^{Geogr 123and references}

Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Definition

לֶשַׁע [Lasha], pr.n. of a town, Genesis 10:19 in the opinion of Jerome (in Quæst.) Callirrhoë on the east of the Dead Sea, a place abounding in hot springs. See Plin. H. N. v. 6; Joseph. Bell. Jud. i. 33.

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List of Word Forms

לָֽשַׁע׃ לשע׃ lā·ša‘ lāša‘ Lasha