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Belly or stomach; the digestive cavity, used metaphorically for consuming or devouring

Carshena; a Persian noble who served as one of seven counselors to King Ahasuerus

A ewe-lamb; a female sheep, used in sacrificial contexts

Chesed; son of Nahor and nephew of Abraham, ancestor of a people group

To be gorged, sated, or covered with fat; to grow thick and overfed

An axe or hatchet; a tool with a blade for cutting or chopping wood

Stumbling or falling; calamity or downfall resulting from pride

Sorcerers or magicians; practitioners of magic and divination

A writing or inscription; marks tattooed or printed on the skin

A wall of a house; the vertical structure forming a building's exterior or interior partition

Kitlish; a city in the Shephelah region assigned to the tribe of Judah

To be stained or marked; to bear indelible discoloration, especially from sin

To pound, crush, or bray in a mortar; to pulverize through repeated striking

To cover or veil; to wrap or conceal the face

Secrecy, mystery, or enchantment; hidden knowledge or action done in secret

Lael; a Levite from the Gershonite clan, father of Eliasaph

Leummim; a people group descended from Dedan, grandson of Abraham through Keturah

Lo-Ammi; symbolic name meaning 'not my people,' given to Hosea's son

Heart or mind; the inner person, seat of thought, will, and emotion

Leb-Kamai; a cryptic designation for Chaldea using Atbash cipher

Heart (Aramaic); the inner person, mind, or seat of understanding

Lebaoth; a city in the southern district of Judah, also called Beth-Lebaoth

Flame or blaze; consuming fire that burns fiercely

Lebonah; a town north of Shiloh, used as a geographical reference point

Lioness; a female lion, used metaphorically for fierce protection or strength

Laban; a place in the wilderness associated with Israel's wanderings

brick, tile (fired or sun-dried clay building material)

study, devotion to books (late Hebrew term for intellectual labor)

Lahad (personal name; son of Jahath in Judah's genealogy)

languish, faint, grow weak (of land under severe famine)

act madly, behave as a madman (quadriliteral verb of mental disturbance)

band, company, assembly (possibly transposed form of קְהִלָּה)

almond tree, almond wood (valued for Jacob's breeding strategy)

covering, veil, envelope (that which conceals or shrouds)

winding stairs, enclosed shaft with steps (architectural feature in Solomon's temple)

swallow down, gulp (of drinking judgment to depletion)

talk wildly, speak rashly (of hasty, unconsidered speech)

with, beside, at (Aramaic preposition indicating proximity or source)

perversity, crookedness (of speech; deviation from straightness)

moisture, freshness, vigor (physical vitality that remains undiminished)

feast, banquet (Aramaic term for festive meal)

war, fighting (at the gates; textually uncertain)

Lahmi (personal name; brother of Goliath the Gittite)

Lachmas (place name; town in Judah's tribal allotment)

lizard (type of unclean reptile in Levitical law)

Letushim (ethnic name; descendants of Abraham through Keturah)

Lilith (female night-demon haunting desolate places; Babylonian loan-word)

Laish (personal name; father of Paltiel, Michal's second husband)

Laishah (place name; village north of Jerusalem in Isaiah's invasion oracle)

being caught, capture, snare (the state or act of being trapped)