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# לְבִיָּא

Biblical Hebrew

**lioness** — 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

### OpenScriptures lexical index

lioness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/lemma_3a_5dc_5b0_5d1_5b4_5d9_5b8_5bc_5d0/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

לְבִיָּא: n.f. lioness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/lemma_3a_5dc_5b0_5d1_5b4_5d9_5b8_5bc_5d0/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. lioness (on format. v. LagBN 93);—Ez 19:2 (‖ אֲרָיוֹת) fig. of mother of Isr.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Ezekiel 19:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.19.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.19.2/#tree)

וְאָמַרְתָּ֗ מָ֤ה אִמְּךָ֙ לְבִיָּ֔א בֵּ֥ין אֲרָי֖וֹת רָבָ֑צָה בְּת֥וֹךְ כְּפִרִ֖ים רִבְּתָ֥ה גוּרֶֽיהָ׃

*Word for word:* and you.will.say what? mother \[was\].your a.lioness between lions she.lay.down among young.lions she.reared cubs her

*JPS 1917:* and say: How was thy mother a lioness; among lions she couched, in the midst of the young lions she reared her whelps!

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5dc_5b0_5d1_5b4_5d9_5b8_5bc_5d0.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_5b4_5d9_5b8_5bc_5d0/): 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).