my bread; my war
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
LAHMI.The brother of Goliath the Gittite, slain by Elhanan the son of Jair (1Ch_20:5). There is a discrepancy between this passage and the parallel passage in 2Sa_21:19, where we read that Elhanan [wh. see] the Bethlehemite slew Goliath the Gittite. If the text of Chronicles is the more correct, the designation Bethlehemite of Samuel is simply a corruption of the name Lahmi, but the converse might also be the case.
T. A. Moxon.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
1Ch_20:5. (See ELHANAN; JAARE OREGIM.) 2Sa_21:19.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Lah'mi. (warrior). The brother of Goliath, the Gittite, slain by Elhanan, the son of Zair or Zaor. 1Ch_20:5. (B.C. 1020).
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
la?mı̄ (לחמי, laḥmı̄): According to 1Ch_20:5, the brother of Goliath of Gath. See EL-HANAN.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Lahmi
(Heb. Lachmi', לִחְמַי, my bread; Septuag. Λεεμεί v. r. Λοομί, Λαχμί, etc.; Vulg. Bethlehemites), a person named (1Ch_20:5) as being the brother of (Goliath, and slain by Elhanan, one of David's heroes; but prob. a corrupt reading for BETH-LEHEMITE, as in the parallel passage (2Sa_21:19). SEE ELHANAN. It wouldi seem that both these passages should be restored so as to read thus: " Elhanan, the son of Jair (or Dodo) of Bethlehem, slew the brother of Goliath of CGath, whose spear-handle was like a weaver's beam." SEE JAIR.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.