Mr. Tomkins is probably right in seeing even in Beth-lehem the name of the primeval Chaldæan deity Lakhmu.
On the road his wife Rachel died while giving birth to his youngest son, and her tomb beside the path to Beth-lehem was marked by a "pillar" which the writer of the Book of Genesis tells us remained to his own day.
Beth-lehem itself was more commonly known in that age by the name of Ephrath.
Mr. Tomkins is probably right in seeing in the name of Beth-lehem a reminiscence of the Babylonian god Lakhmu, who took part in the creation of the world, and whom a later philosophizing generation identified with Anu.
At Beth-lehem Jacob was but a few miles distant from Hebron, where Isaac still lived, and where at his death he was buried by his sons Jacob and Esau in the family tomb of Machpelah.
The men of Beth-lehem and Netophah, a hundred four score and eight" (Neh.
If thy father at all miss me, then say, David earnestly asked leave of me that he might run to Beth-lehem his city: for there is a yearly sacrifice there for all the family.
All this points to a place nearer than Beth-lehem to northern Arabia; probably it was not far from Maon and Carmel.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lehem" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
