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# לַיִשׁ

Biblical Hebrew

**Laish** — 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

Laish [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/lemma_3a_5dc_5b7_5d9_5b4_5e9_5c1/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

לַ֫יִשׁ²: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/lemma_3a_5dc_5b7_5d9_5b4_5e9_5c1/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. (on meaning lion, cf. RSSem i. 156 (om. 2nd ed.));—former name of Dan., in extreme north of Canaan, Ju 18:7, 14, 27, 29 (v. דָּן p. 192 b); 𝔊 Λαισα; = לָשֶׁם q.v.; cf. BuhlGeogr. § 124.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 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: Laish (2); \[was\] Laish (1); to (1).

## In the verses

[Judges 18:29](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.18.29/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.18.29/#tree)

וַיִּקְרְא֤וּ שֵׁם־הָעִיר֙ דָּ֔ן בְּשֵׁם֙ דָּ֣ן אֲבִיהֶ֔ם אֲשֶׁ֥ר יוּלַּ֖ד לְיִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל וְאוּלָ֛ם לַ֥יִשׁ שֵׁם־הָעִ֖יר לָרִאשֹׁנָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and they.called the.name of the.city Dan by the.name of.Dan ancestor their who he.was.born to Israel and but \[was\].Laish the.name of the.city to the.former \[time\]

*JPS 1917:* And they called the name of the city Dan, after the name of Dan their father, who was born unto Israel; howbeit the name of the city was Laish at the first.

[Judges 18:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.18.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.18.14/#tree)

וַֽיַּעֲנ֞וּ חֲמֵ֣שֶׁת הָאֲנָשִׁ֗ים הַהֹלְכִים֮ לְרַגֵּל֮ אֶת־הָאָ֣רֶץ לַיִשׁ֒ וַיֹּֽאמְרוּ֙ אֶל־אֲחֵיהֶ֔ם הַיְדַעְתֶּ֗ם כִּ֠י יֵ֣שׁ בַּבָּתִּ֤ים הָאֵ֙לֶּה֙ אֵפ֣וֹד וּתְרָפִ֔ים וּפֶ֖סֶל וּמַסֵּכָ֑ה וְעַתָּ֖ה דְּע֥וּ מַֽה־תַּעֲשֽׂוּ׃

*Word for word:* and they.answered the.five the men \[who had\].gone to spy.out (et) the land Laish and they.said to brothers their do you.know? (dm).that there.\[are\] in the houses (the) these an.ephod and teraphim a carved.image and a.molten.image and therefore consider what? will.you.do

*JPS 1917:* Then answered the five men that went to spy out the country of Laish, and said unto their brethren: 'Do ye know that there is in these houses an ephod, and teraphim, and a graven image, and a molten image? now therefore consider what ye have to do.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5dc_5b7_5d9_5b4_5e9_5c1.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/lemma_3a_5dc_5b7_5d9_5b4_5e9_5c1/): 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).