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# לְבָאָה

Biblical Hebrew

**lionesses** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

Why these entries: BDB: none; OSHB: none

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: lionesses (1).

## In the verses

[Nahum 2:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/NAM.2.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/NAM.2.13/#tree)

אַרְיֵ֤ה טֹרֵף֙ בְּדֵ֣י גֹֽרוֹתָ֔יו וּמְחַנֵּ֖ק לְלִבְאֹתָ֑יו וַיְמַלֵּא־טֶ֣רֶף חֹרָ֔יו וּמְעֹֽנֹתָ֖יו טְרֵפָֽה׃

*Word for word:* \[the\].lion \[was\].tearing for the.sufficiency its.cubs his and \[it.was\].strangling for lionesses its and it.filled prey holes its and dens its torn.flesh

*JPS 1917:* The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his caves with prey, and his dens with ravin.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5dc_5b0_5d1_5b8_5d0_5b8_5d4.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/lemma_3a_5dc_5b0_5d1_5b8_5d0_5b8_5d4/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).