Hebrew word · H3912

לְטוּשִׁם

uletushim

Letushim

Appears once in the Hebrew Old Testament. ·

What it means

People descended from Letush(?) of the Patriarchs, only mentioned at Gen.25.3; descended from Dedan (H1719C); along with Asshurim (H0805A) and Leummim (H3817)

§ Letushim = "hammered"

the 2nd son of Dedan, grandson of Jokshan, great grandson of Abraham by Keturah

Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).

Where it appears

Genesis · 1

  1. Genesis 25:3 וּלְטוּשִׁ֖ים and Letushites

    Jokshan was the father of Sheba and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were the Asshurites, the Letushites, and the Leummites.

    Here: A plural tribal name, otherwise unknown. It may come from a root meaning 'to hammer, sharpen' (as in Gen 4:22, of metalworking), which would give something like 'smiths'. That link is only a guess.

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