Lahmam
(provisions), a town in the lowland district of Judah. (Joshua 15:40)
Lahmi
(warrior), the brother of Goliath the Gittite, slain by Elhanan the son of Zair or Zaor. ( 1
Chronicles 20:5) (B.C. 1020.)
Laish
(lion), father of Phaltiel, to whom Saul had given Michal, David’s wife. (1 Samuel 25:44; 2
Samuel 3:15)
Lakes
[Palestina And Palestine]
Lakum
(fortification), properly formed the landmarks of the boundary of Naphtali. (Joshua 19:33)
Lambs
are the young of sheep, but originally included also the young of goats. They formed an important
part of almost every sacrifice. (Exodus 29:38-41; Numbers 28:9,11; 29,13-40) etc. [On the paschal
lamb see Passover]
Lamech
(powerful), properly Lemech.
•The fifth lineal descendant from Cain. (Genesis 4:18-24) He is the only one except Enoch, of the
posterity of Cain, whose history is related with some detail. His two wives, Adah and Zillah, and
his daughter Naamah, are, with Eve, the only antediluvian women whose names are mentioned
by Moses. His three sons, Jabal, Jubal and Tubal-cain, are celebrated in Scripture as authors of
useful inventions. The remarkable poem which Lamech uttered may perhaps be regarded as
Lamech’s son of exultation on the invention of the sword by his son Tubal-cain, in the possession
of which he foresaw a great advantage to himself and his family over any enemies.
•The father of Noah. (Genesis 5:29)
Lamentations Of Jeremiah
Title.—The Hebrew title of this book, Ecah, is taken, like the titles of the five books of Moses,
from the Hebrew word with which it opens. Author.—The poems included in this collection appear
in the Hebrew canon with no name attached to them, but Jeremiah has been almost universally
regarded as their author. Date.—The poems belong unmistakably to the last days of the kingdom,
or the commencement of the exile, B.C. 629-586. They are written by one who speaks, with the
vividness and intensity of an eye-witness, of the misery which he bewails. Contents.—The book
consists of five chapter, each of which, however, is a separate poem, complete in itself, and having
a distinct subject, but brought at the same time under a plan which includes them all. A complicated
alphabetic structure pervades nearly the whole book. (1) Chs. 1,2 and 4 contain twenty-two verses
each, arranged in alphabetic order, each verse falling into three nearly balanced clauses; ch.
(Lamentations 2:19) forms an exception, as having a fourth clause. (2) Ch. 3 contains three short
verses under each letter of the alphabet, the initial letter being three times repeated. (3) Ch. 5 contains
the same number of verses as chs. 1,2,4, but without the alphabetic order. Jeremiah was not merely
a patriot-poet, weeping over the ruin of his country; he was a prophet who had seen all this coming,
and had foretold it as inevitable. There are perhaps few portions of the Old Testament which appear
to have done the work they were meant to do more effectually than this. The book has supplied
thousands with the fullest utterance for their sorrows in the critical periods of national or individual
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