Man or town at the time of Divided Monarchy
Lecah, a descendant of Judah through Er.
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Also known as Lekah
Lecah was a son of Er and a descendant of Judah (1Ch.4.21). He is mentioned in the genealogy of Judah, specifically in the line of Shelah. No additional information is provided about Lecah in the Bible. He likely lived during the period of the patriarchs or the early settlement of the tribes in Canaan.
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(progress), a name mentioned in the genealogies of Judah, (1 Chronicles 4:21) only, as one of the descendants of Shelah, the third son of Judah by the Canaanites Bath-shua.
LE'CAH (walking, course) occurs only in the genealogies of Judah, 1 Chr 4:21, and possibly is the name of a town.
LE'CAH (walking, course) occurs only in the genealogies of Judah, 1 Chr 4:21, and possibly is the name of a town.
Easton (1897), Smith (1863), Hitchcock (1869), Hastings (1898) and Schaff are in the public domain. Parsed text: neuu-org/bible-dictionary-dataset (CC BY 4.0). Headwords and whitespace normalised for this site.
1 verse in 1 book · English text: BSB (change it from the menu at the top) · Strong’s H3922
The sons of Shelah son of Judah: Er the father of Lecah, Laadah the father of Mareshah and the clans of the linen workers at Beth-ashbea,
Names, family links and references: STEPBible TIPNR (Tyndale House Cambridge, CC BY 4.0). Short descriptions were drafted with AI assistance by STEPBible. Family links follow STEPBible’s scholarly decisions where genealogies are ambiguous.