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# לַיִשׁ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3919

**Laish** — used 2 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

Laish [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3919/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

לַ֫יִשׁ³: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3919/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. father of Michal’s second husband, 1 S 25:44 + 2 S 3:15 Qr (Kt לושׁ), 𝔊 Αμεις, Σελλης, A Λα(ε)ις, 𝔊L Ιωας, Σελλειμ.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[1 Samuel 25:44](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.25.44/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.25.44/#tree)

וְשָׁא֗וּל נָתַ֛ן אֶת־מִיכַ֥ל בִּתּ֖וֹ אֵ֣שֶׁת דָּוִ֑ד לְפַלְטִ֥י בֶן־לַ֖יִשׁ אֲשֶׁ֥ר מִגַּלִּֽים׃

*Word for word:* and Saul he.had.given (et) Michal daughter his the.wife of.David to Palti the.son of.Laish who \[was\].from Gallim

*JPS 1917:* Now Saul had given Michal his daughter, David's wife, to Palti the son of Laish, who was of Gallim.

[2 Samuel 3:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.3.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.3.15/#tree)

וַיִּשְׁלַח֙ אִ֣ישׁ בֹּ֔שֶׁת אִ֣ישׁ בֹּ֔שֶׁת וַיִּקָּחֶ֖הָ מֵ֣עִֽם אִ֑ישׁ מֵעִ֖ם פַּלְטִיאֵ֥ל בֶּן־לָֽיִשׁ׃

*Word for word:* and he.sent Ish-bosheth Ish-bosheth and he took.her from with a.husband from with Paltiel the.son of.Laish

*JPS 1917:* And Ish-bosheth sent, and took her from her husband, even from Paltiel the son of Laish.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3919.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3919/): 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).