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# לַיִשׁ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3918

**lion** — used 3 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/1500/3918/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

לַ֫יִשׁ: n.m. lion [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3918/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Jb 4:11 lion (Arabic لَيْثٌ, 𝔗 לֵיתָא; Assyrian nêšu, lion is comp. by Hal (cf. HptKAT2, 510) BaZA iii. 1888, 60);—lion Jb 4:11 Is 30:6 (‖ לָבִיא), ל׳ גִּבּוֹר בַּבְּהֵמָה Pr 30:30.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a lion (2); lion (1).

## 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.

[Proverbs 30:30](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.30.30/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.30.30/#tree)

לַ֭יִשׁ גִּבּ֣וֹר בַּבְּהֵמָ֑ה וְלֹא־יָ֝שׁ֗וּב מִפְּנֵי־כֹֽל׃

*Word for word:* a.lion \[is\].mighty among the animal\[s\] and not it.turns.back from before anything

*JPS 1917:* The lion, which is mightiest among beasts, and turneth not away for any;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3918.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3918/): 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).