Encyclopedia of The Bible – Lahmi
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Lahmi

LAHMI lä’ mī (לַחְמִ֗י). According to 1 Chronicles 20:5, he was the brother of Goliath and was killed by Elhanan; but in the parallel passage (2 Sam 21:19) it is stated that “Elhanan the son of Jaarevoregim, the Bethlehemite, slew Goliath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver’s beam.” This is apparently a textual error.