לָבַט
to throw down
also: thrust down, thrust out, thrust away fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Stem
- Niphal
- Usually the simple passive or reflexive of the Qal (“he was written”).
Form
- Imperfect
- An incomplete, ongoing, or future action (“he will / would write”).
Person
- 3rd Person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H3832 appears in the Book of Proverbs — 2 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Proverbs
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
At its core, לבט (lâbaṭ) means “to throw down.” It is rare — just 3 verses in the entire Hebrew Bible. Its uses cluster heavily in Proverbs (67% of all occurrences). It first appears in Proverbs 10:8. Ranging over 2 senses, its meaning includes “thrust down”, “thrust out”, and “thrust away”. Dig into 3-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H3832 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 3
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 3 distinct verses.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #4,179
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,179 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 3 occurrences in the concordance →
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 3 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 2 verses · 67%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 1 verse · 33%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Shall fall 3×
- American Standard Version: Shall fall 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Will come to ruin 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Will be thrown down 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H3832 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H3832 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H3832 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H3832 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- to throw down, thrust down, thrust out, thrust away
- (Niphal) to be thrust down, be thrust away, be thrown down, be cast aside
Word origin
[ לָבַט ] vb. thrust down, out, or away;—only Niph. be thrust down, away, i.e. ruined
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: a primitive root
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
לָבַט
- לבט = ענה, Ex. XXII, 21, sq.) to knock about, to send from place to place. Mekh. B’shall., Amal., s. 2 שאברהם לא לְבָטוּהוּ when Abraham was to be shown the holy land (Gen. XIII, 14) they did not trouble him to leave his place, ומשה לְבָטוּהוּ but Moses they did put to the trouble &c. (Deut. III, 27).—Part. pass. לָבוּט, pl. לְבוּטִים outcasts. Gen. R. s. 52, beg., v. next w. e.g. Exodus 22:21
- to be troubled; to go from place to place. Sifré Num. 84 they began to murmur against the king שנִתְלַבְּטוּ על דרך זו that they were troubled to make that journey (to meet him); ib. המלך … שבשבילם נתל׳ וכ׳ the king had a right to complain, for he had taken all that trouble for their sake; Yalk. Num. 729 (v. Targ. Hos. IV, 14 s. v. רְטַשׁ).
לֶבֶט
- (preced.) trouble, misery.—Pl. לְבָטִים, constr. לִבְטֵי. Gen. R. s. 52, beg. (ref. to Prov. X, 8 ילבט, with play on לוט) הביא עליו לִבְטֵי לְבוּטִים Lot brought upon himself the miseries of the outcasts (ref. to Deut. XXIII, 4 sq.); Yalk. Prov. 946 לבטי לבטים troubles after troubles. e.g. Proverbs 10:8
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 3 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 3 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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