la.cham denotes consuming food or delicacies, including figurative food associated with wickedness and famine's consuming effects.

The supplied verses show consumption in meal settings, invitations to food, and warnings against another's delicacies; the same language also occurs with the bread of wickedness and with famine's destructive consumption.

1. Consuming food, delicacies, or figurative bread · dominant

   Qal forms occur in eating contexts: in Proverbs 23:1 the APB renders the infinitive construct within sitting with a ruler as “to eat,” and in Proverbs 9:5 the imperative invites hearers to “eat of my food.” Proverbs 23:6 and Psalm 141:4 warn against consuming another person's delicacies, while Proverbs 4:17 places the action with “the bread of wickedness.”

   Proverbs 23:1Proverbs 23:6Proverbs 4:17Proverbs 9:5Psalm 141:4
2. Being consumed amid famine · rare

   In Deuteronomy 32:24, the passive participle stands in a judgment scene alongside famine, pestilence, destruction, beasts, and serpents; the APB renders the clause “They will be wasted by famine and consumed by pestilence.” The precise English correspondence of the form is not isolated by the translation.

   Deuteronomy 32:24

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB variously presents the term in these clauses as “eat,” “feed on,” and, in the famine judgment of Deuteronomy 32:24, “consumed.” Because the APB is a whole-verse translation, those English expressions show the verse-level presentation rather than fixed equivalents.