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# לִבְנִי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3845

**Libni** — used 6 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

Libni [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3845/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

לִבְנִי: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3845/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. a Levite, son of Gershom, Ex 6:17; Nu 3:18; 1 Ch 6:2, 5, 14 (𝔊 Λοβεν\[ε\]ι).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 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: Libni (4); \[were\] Libni (1); the Libnite\[s\] (1).

## In the verses

[Exodus 6:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.6.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.6.17/#tree)

בְּנֵ֥י גֵרְשׁ֛וֹן לִבְנִ֥י וְשִׁמְעִ֖י לְמִשְׁפְּחֹתָֽם׃

*Word for word:* the.sons of.Gershon \[were\].Libni and Shimei to clans their

*JPS 1917:* The sons of Gershon: Libni and Shimei, according to their families.

[1 Chronicles 6:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.6.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.6.2/#tree)

וְאֵ֛לֶּה שְׁמ֥וֹת בְּֽנֵי־גֵרְשׁ֖וֹם לִבְנִ֥י וְשִׁמְעִֽי׃

*Word for word:* and these \[are\].the.names of.the.sons of.Gershom Libni and Shimei

*JPS 1917:* And these are the names of the sons of Gershom: Libni, and Shimei.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3845.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3845/): 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).