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# לוּבִי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3864

**Lybians** — used 4 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

Lybians [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3864/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

לוּב: n.gent.pl. Lybians [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3864/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.gent.pl. Lybians, in N. Africa, W. of Egypt;—Na 3:9 (+ פּוּט), 2 Ch 12:3 (𝔊 Λιβυες; + מִצְרַיִם, סֻכִּיִּים, כּוּשִׁים), 16:8 𝔊 Λιβυες; (+ כּוּשִׁים); לֻבִֿים Dn 11:43 (v. Baer; c. מִצְרַיִם, כֻּשִֿׁים), Theod. Λιβυων; prob. = לְהָבִים (q.v.) Gn 10:13 = 1 Ch 1:11 A 𝔊L Λαβιειμ; read לוּבים perhaps also Je 46:9 (for ℌ לוּדִים, cf. StaJavan 5 f.), 𝔊 Λυδοι (פּוּט ib. = Λιβυες); 𝔊 Sm Co StaJavan 6 Berthol read לוּב Ez 30:5 (for ℌ כּוּב, q.v.) See WMMAs. Eur. 115.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Libyans (4).

## In the verses

[Nahum 3:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/NAM.3.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/NAM.3.9/#tree)

כּ֥וּשׁ עָצְמָ֛ה וּמִצְרַ֖יִם וְאֵ֣ין קֵ֑צֶה פּ֣וּט וְלוּבִ֔ים הָי֖וּ בְּעֶזְרָתֵֽךְ׃

*Word for word:* Cush might \[was\].its and Egypt and there.\[was\].not an.end Put and.\[the\] Libyans they.were (in) help your

*JPS 1917:* Ethiopia and Egypt were thy strength, and it was infinite; Put and Lubim were thy helpers.

[Daniel 11:43](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.11.43/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.11.43/#tree)

וּמָשַׁ֗ל בְּמִכְמַנֵּי֙ הַזָּהָ֣ב וְהַכֶּ֔סֶף וּבְכֹ֖ל חֲמֻד֣וֹת מִצְרָ֑יִם וְלֻבִ֥ים וְכֻשִׁ֖ים בְּמִצְעָדָֽיו׃

*Word for word:* and he.will.rule over the.treasures of.(the) gold and (the) silver and over all the.precious.things of.Egypt and Libyans and Cushites \[will be\] in.his.steps

*JPS 1917:* But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt; and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3864.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3864/): 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).