לביא
lâbîyʼ
Meaning
“lion”
BDB lion (noun masculine); lioness (noun feminine)
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10 books · rare
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First appears: Genesis 49:9
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לביא
8 books
Genesis 49:9
וּ/כְ/לָבִ֖יא
Judah is a lion's cub. From the prey, my son, you have gone up. He stooped down, he crouched as a lion, As a lioness. Who will rouse him up?
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Deuteronomy 33:20
כְּ/לָבִ֣יא
Of Gad he said, Blessed be he who enlarges Gad: He dwells as a lioness, Tears the arm, yes, the crown of the head.
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Job 4:11
לָ֝בִ֗יא
The old lion perishes for lack of prey, The cubs of the lioness are scattered abroad.
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Isaiah 5:29
כַּ/לָּבִ֑יא
Their roaring will be like a lioness. They will roar like young lions. Yes, they shall roar, And seize their prey and carry it off, And there will be no one to deliver.
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Ezekiel 19:2
לְבִיָּ֔א
and say, What was your mother? A lioness: she couched among lions, in the midst of the young lions she nourished her cubs.
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Hosea 13:8
כְּ/לָבִ֔יא
I will meet them like a bear that is bereaved of her cubs, And will tear the covering of their heart. And there I will devour them like a lioness. The wild animal will tear them.
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Joel 1:6
לָבִ֖יא
For a nation has come up on my land, strong, and without number. His teeth are the teeth of a lion, And he has the fangs of a lioness.
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Nahum 2:11
לָבִ֥יא
Where is the den of the lions, and the feeding-place of the young lions, where the lion and the lioness walked, the lion's cubs, and no one made them afraid?
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