Strongs's #3833: labiy' - Greek/Hebrew Definitions

Greek/Hebrew Definitions

Strong's #3833: labiy' (pronounced law-bee')

or (Ezek. 19:2) lbiyao {leb-ee-yaw'}; irreg. masculine plural lbaviym {leb-aw-eem'}; irreg. feminine plural lbaeowth {leb-aw-oth'}; from an unused root men. to roar; a lion (properly, a lioness as the fiercer (although not a roarer; compare 738)):--(great, old, stout) lion, lioness, young (lion).

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

/ / / ּ
lâbı̂y' / lebı̂yâ' / lebâ'ı̂ym / lebâ'ôth

1) lion (noun masculine)
2) lioness (noun feminine)

Part of Speech: see above in Definition
Relation: from an unused root men. to roar
Same Word by TWOT Number: 1070b, 1070c

Usage:

This word is used 14 times:

Genesis 49:9: "thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?"
Numbers 23:24: "Behold, the people shall rise up as a great lion, and lift up himself as a young lion: he shall not lie down"
Numbers 24:9: "He couched, he lay down as a lion, and as a great lion: who shall stir him up? Blessed is he that blesseth"
Deuteronomy 33:20: "be he that enlargeth Gad: he dwelleth as a lion, and teareth the arm the crown of the head."
Job 4:11: "perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion's whelps are scattered abroad."
Job 38:39: "Wilt thou hunt the prey for the lion? or fill the appetite of the young lions,"
Psalms 57:4: "My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth"
Isaiah 5:29: "Their roaring shall be like a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and shall carry it away safe,"
Isaiah 30:6: "of trouble and anguish, from whence come the young and old lion, and fiery flying serpent,"
Ezekiel 19:2: "And say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished"
Hosea 13:8: "of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lion: beast shall tear"
Joel 1:6: "of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion."
Nahum 2:11: "of the young lions, where the lion, even the old lion, walked, whelp,"
Nahum 2:12: "enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his holes with prey,"

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