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# לִבְנִי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3846

**Libnite** — 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

Libnite [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3846/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

לִבְנִי²: adj.gent. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3846/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj.gent. of foregoing, always c. art. הַלּ׳ as subst. coll., Nu 3:21; 26:58.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 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: the Libnite\[s\] (1).

## In the verses

[Numbers 3:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.3.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.3.21/#tree)

לְגֵ֣רְשׁ֔וֹן מִשְׁפַּ֙חַת֙ הַלִּבְנִ֔י וּמִשְׁפַּ֖חַת הַשִּׁמְעִ֑י אֵ֣לֶּה הֵ֔ם מִשְׁפְּחֹ֖ת הַגֵּרְשֻׁנִּֽי׃

*Word for word:* \[belonged\].to Gershon the.clan of the.Libnite\[s\] and the.clan of the.Shimeite\[s\] these they \[were\].the.clans of the.Gershonite\[s\]

*JPS 1917:* Of Gershon was the family of the Libnites, and the family of the Shimeites; these are the families of the Gershonites.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3846.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3846/): 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).