Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

lasha

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.26 in modern English

Syllables: lasha
IPA

8

Scrabble Score

5

Letters

1

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

Biblical location, appearing only once in the Bible, in the Book of Genesis (10:19) describing one of the limits of the area covered by the Canaanites, believed to be on the east bank of the Dead Sea, later named Callirrhoe (location of hot springs mentioned by Josephus and other authors in the first centuries AD).

Etymology

From Hebrew לָשַׁע.

Origin

Source language: Hebrew

Word Breakdown

Root: לָשַׁע

Inflected Forms

Lesha (alternative) Dasa (alternative) Codex Alexandrinus (alternative) Codex Vaticanus (alternative) Septuagint (alternative)

Questions

What does lasha mean?: Biblical location, appearing only once in the Bible, in the Book of Genesis (10:19) describing one of the limits of the area covered by the Canaanites, believed to be on the east bank of the Dead Sea, later named Callirrhoe (location of hot springs mentioned by Josephus and other authors in the first centuries AD).
Where does lasha come from?: It is traced to Hebrew.

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