H3902 H3902
Lahmi (personal name; brother of Goliath the Gittite)
Lahmi appears in 1 Chronicles 20:5 as the brother of Goliath, slain by Elhanan. However, this reading is likely a textual corruption of the parallel passage in 2 Samuel 21:19, which reads "the Bethlehemite" (בֵּית הַלַּחְמִי). The original text probably identified Elhanan as being from Bethlehem rather than naming Goliath's brother. The Septuagint renderings show uncertainty about this name. This represents a classic case where Chronicles' text became corrupted from Samuel's original.
Senses
1. sense 1 — First Chronicles 20:5 names Lahmi as Goliath's brother killed by Elhanan, though most scholars see this as a textual error for "the Bethlehemite" from 2 Samuel 21:19. Modern translations handle this diversely—some preserving "Lahmi" as a proper name, others noting the textual issue. The passage highlights the textual challenges in Chronicles' reuse of Samuel material. 1×
AR["لَحْمِي"]·ben["লহমীকে"]·DE["[לחמי]"]·EN["Lahmi"]·FR["[לחמי]"]·heb["לחמי"]·HI["लह्मी"]·ID["Lahmi"]·IT["[לחמי]"]·jav["Lahmi"]·KO["라흐미"]·PT["Lachmi"]·RU["Лахми"]·ES["Lajmi"]·SW["Lahmi"]·TR["Lahmi'yi"]·urd["لحمی"]
Related Senses
G3588 1. definite article (18298×)H0853 1. definite direct object marker (10915×)G2532 1. (8312×)H3068 1. YHWH (the divine name) (6522×)H0834a 1. relative pronoun (who/which/that) (4839×)H3588a 1. causal: because, for (3498×)G1161 1. and (2806×)H3478 1. Israel (proper name and nation) (2507×)G4771 1. you (plural address) (1853×)H1931 1. personal pronoun he/she/it (1431×)G3739 1. relative pronoun who/which/that (1149×)H1732 1. David (proper name) (1075×)H2088 1. this, this one (demonstrative) (1059×)G1063 1. (1047×)G3778 1. this thing, these things (1003×)H???? 2. (1002×)G2424 1. (924×)G3754 1. that (content clause) (881×)H2009 1. presentative particle: behold, look (881×)H0589 1. I (first person singular pronoun) (874×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† לַחְמִי n.pr.m. brother of Goliath of Gath (q.v.) slain by Elhanan, according to 1 Ch 20:5 (את לחמי; 𝔊 Ελεμεε, Λεεμει, Λοομι); orig. reading prob. (as in ‖ 2 S 21:19) בֵּית הַלַּחְמִי q.v. p. 112a supra.