לוּב
Libyans
BDB lists 2 entries for ‘Libyans’ 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
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Gentilic
- A noun naming a member of a people, tribe, or region of origin (e.g. an Israelite, a Moabite).
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Every verse where H3864 appears — 4 distinct verses across 3 books. 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.
2 Chronicles 2 verses
- 2 Chronicles 12:3 לוּבִ֥ים n Gentilic mp with twelve hundred chariots, and sixty thousand horsemen. The people were without number who came with him out of Egypt: the Lubim, the Sukkiim, and the Ethiopians.
- 2 Chronicles 16:8 וְ/הַ/לּוּבִ֗ים conj + ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp Weren't the Ethiopians and the Lubim a huge host, with chariots and horsemen exceeding many? yet, because you did rely on Yahweh, he delivered them into your hand.
Daniel 1 verse
Nahum 1 verse
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.
לובי — transliterated Lûwbîy — is a Hebrew name carrying the sense “Libyans.” With only 4 verses it sits in the long tail of Hebrew Bible vocabulary. More than half of its appearances fall in 2 Chronicles. Debuting at 2 Chronicles 12:3, it then recurs through the corpus. See 4-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H3864 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 →
- 4
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 4 distinct verses.
- 3 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 3 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #3,696
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 3,696 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 4 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 2 Chronicles 2 verses 50%
- Daniel 1 verse 25%
- Nahum 1 verse 25%
By section of the Old Testament
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 4 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 3 verses · 75%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 1 verse · 25%
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: Lubims 2×
- American Standard Version: Lubim 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Libyans 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Libyans 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H3864 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H3864 across 4 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 H3864 across 4 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.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H3864 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
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.
- Libyans = "empty-hearted ( Dan 11:43 )"
- a people of northern Africa west of Egypt
Word origin
n.gent.pl. Lybians, in N. Africa, W. of Egypt;—Na 3:9 (+ פּוּט), 2 Ch 12:3 (𝔊 Λιβυες; + מִצְרַיִם, סֻכִּיִּים, כּוּשִׁים), 16:8 𝔊 Λιβυες; (+ כּוּשִׁים); לֻבִֿים Dn 11:43 (v. Baer; c. מִצְרַיִם, כֻּשִֿׁים), Theod. Λιβυων; prob. = לְהָבִים (q.v.) Gn 10:13 = 1 Ch 1:11 A 𝔊L Λαβιειμ; read לוּבים perhaps also Je 46:9 (for ℌ לוּדִים, cf. StaJavan 5 f.), 𝔊 Λυδοι (פּוּט ib. = Λιβυες); 𝔊 Sm Co StaJavan 6 Berthol read לוּב Ez 30:5 (for ℌ כּוּב, q.v.) See WMMAs. Eur. 115.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: partrial from a name probably derived from an unused root meaning to thirst
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.
לוּבִי
- (b. h., v. לוּב) Libyan. Y. Kil. VIII, 31ᶜ; Y. Sabb. V, beg. 7ᵇ an Egyptian bean when fresh צווחין ליה ל׳ וכ׳ is named Libyan, when dried, they call it Egyptian bean; … הדא אמרה הוא ל׳ הוא מצרי this proves that Libyan and Egyptian means the same (v. לוּב). Ib. גר מל׳ a proselyte descendant of a Libyan. Y. Shebi. II, 34ᵃ bot. מיסרן דל׳ bunches of Libyan beans.—Pl. לוּבִים. Y. Kil. l. c.; Y. Sabb. l. c., v. לִיבְדְּקוֹס. Ib. גרים הבאים מל׳ proselytes, descendants of Libyans; v. ליבוי.
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.
Forms in the corpus
The 4 distinct written forms H3864 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| וְ/הַ/לּוּבִ֗ים | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | 2 Chronicles 16:8 | 1 |
| וְ/לֻבִ֥ים | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Daniel 11:43 | 1 |
| וְ/לוּבִ֔ים | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Nahum 3:9 | 1 |
| לוּבִ֥ים | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | 2 Chronicles 12:3 | 1 |
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 4 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 4 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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This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
