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# לָבִיא

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3833

**lion** — used 11 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

lion [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3833/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

לָבִיא: lion lioness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3833/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] lion, poss. also \[f.\] lioness (cf. Arabic usage, and Gn 49:9; Nu 24:9; Jb 4:11, etc.; but this by no means certain);—ל׳ abs. Gn 49:9 + 10 times;—Is 30:6 (‖ לַיִשׁ), Jb 38:39 (‖ כְּפִיר); Gn 49:9 in sim. of victor’s repose (רָבַץ; ‖ אַרְיֵה), cf. Nu 24:9 (c. שָׁכַב; ‖ אֲרִי), Dt 33:20 (שָׁכֵן וְטָרַף); v. also Nu 23:24 (קוּם; ‖ אֲרִי); fig. of Nineveh Na 2:12 (‖ אַרְיֵה), cf. Is 5:29 (שָֽׁאֲגָה in sim.; ‖ כְּפִירִים); fig. of wicked Jb 4:11 (+ אַרְיֵה, שָׁ֑הַל, כְּפִיר, לַיִשׁ v 10, 11); sim. of י׳, devouring (אָכַל) in judgment Ho 13:8; fig. of locusts מְתַלְּעוֹת ל׳ Jo 1:6 (‖ שִׁנֵּי אַרְיֵה).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 11 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a lion (6); lion (3); of a lion (2).

## In the verses

[Job 4:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.4.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.4.11/#tree)

לַ֭יִשׁ אֹבֵ֣ד מִבְּלִי־טָ֑רֶף וּבְנֵ֥י לָ֝בִ֗יא יִתְפָּרָֽדוּ׃

*Word for word:* a.lion \[is\].perishing from not prey and.\[the\] young of.a.lion they.are.scattered

*JPS 1917:* The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the whelps of the lioness are scattered abroad.

[Job 38:39](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.38.39/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.38.39/#tree)

הֲתָצ֣וּד לְלָבִ֣יא טָ֑רֶף וְחַיַּ֖ת כְּפִירִ֣ים תְּמַלֵּֽא׃

*Word for word:* will you.hunt? for a.lion prey and.\[the\] life of.young.lions will.you.fill?

*JPS 1917:* Wilt thou hunt the prey for the lioness? Or satisfy the appetite of the young lions,

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3833.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3833/): 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).