H3959

לֶ֫שֶׁם

le.shemN:N--L

Leshem

Leshem = "precious stone" a city west of Mount Hermon, also called 'Laish' and later 'Dan' Another name of dan (דָּן "Dan" H1835G)

Full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon entry

II. לֶ֫שֶׁם proper name, of a location variant of לַיִשׁ (whence WeDe gent 37) Di read לֵשָׁם; LagBN 20 Anm. thinks ם remnant of Mimmation, לֶשֶׁם from לַיִשׁ = Laišum), old, name of city דָּן (see לַיִשׁ), Josh 19:47 (twice in verse) (compare Di), ᵐ5B Λαχεις, לֶשֶׁם דָּן = Λασεννδακ, ᵐ5A ᵐ5L Λεσεν.


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