לִוְיָה
wreath
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
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H3880 appears — 2 distinct verses across 1 book. 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 2 verses
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.
לויה — transliterated livyâh — is a Hebrew noun carrying the sense “wreath.” It occurs a mere 2 verses across Scripture. Its uses cluster heavily in Proverbs (100% of all occurrences). It first appears in Proverbs 1:9. From the same root come לוה, לויתן and לות. See the sense tree, 2-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H3880 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 →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #4,807
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,807 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Proverbs 2 verses 100%
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 2 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 2 verses · 100%
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: Ornament 1×, They shall be an ornament 1×
- American Standard Version: Chaplet 1×, They shall be a chaplet 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Garland 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Are a garland of 1×, Garland of 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H3880 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H3880 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H3880 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H3880 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense 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.
- wreath
Word origin
Derived from לוה (lâvâh) (H3867) — to join.
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.
לִוִיָּה
- (לֵוִי)
- 1. Levite, daughter or wife of a Levite. Y. Yeb. X, 10ᵈ top; Tosef. ib. VIII, 2. Bekh. 47ᵃ; a. fr.
- 2. the community of Levites, status of Levites. Ex. R. s. 1 בתי כהונה ול׳ priestly and Levite families. Y. Maas. Sh. V, end, 56ᵈ מכרי כהונה ול׳ friends of priestly or Levite families. Bekh. l. c. כהונה ול׳ פטורין the priests and the Levites are exempt; a. e.
- 3. the community of the attendants of the Tabernacle, priests and Levites. Sifré Num. 1; a. e.
- 4. the Levitical offices. Ex. R. s. 5 זה נוטל כהונה ונותן ל׳ וכ׳ the one (Aaron) took the priesthood and gave (Moses) the Levite offices; the other took the Levite offices &c.; (Tanḥ. Sh’moth 27 מלכות); a. e.
לְוִיָּה
- (לָוָה)
- 1. consort, wife. Yoma 54ᵇ top (ref. to וליות, I Kings VII, 36), v. עָרָה II. e.g. 1 Kings 7:36
- 2. (v. next w.) the wailing woman’s company. Y. M. Kat. I, 80ᵈ top, [read:] לא תעורר אשה לְוִיָּיתָהּ … רבי נחמן … אמר לִיוְיָתָהּ a woman must not stir up her company for wailing during the festive week; R. N. read livyatha (with ref. to עורר לויתן Job III, 8; cmp. אִילַּוָּיוּתָא). e.g. Job 3:8
לְוָיָה
- (לָוָה) escort, company, esp. the traveller’s escort for protection. Sot. IX, 6 והנחנוהו בלא ל׳ and we let him (the stranger) go without protection; (Y. ib. IX, 23ᵈ bot. הלוייה). Bab. ib. 46ᵇ כופין לל׳ we may force (the inhabitans of a place) to provide escorts for travellers. Ib. המהלך … ואין לו ל׳ וכ׳ he who travels on the road and has no company, let him be engaged in study of the Law (ref. to לִוְיַת, Prov. I, 9); Erub. 54ᵃ. Ḥull. 7ᵃ בני ל׳ fellow-travellers. Midr. Till. to Ps. CIV, 1 יהא אליך לְוָיָיתְךָ (or לִוְיָיתְךָ) thy God be thy escort; a. e. e.g. Proverbs 1:9
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 2 distinct written forms H3880 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| לִוְיַ֤ת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Proverbs 1:9 | 1 |
| לִוְיַת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Proverbs 4:9 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H3880, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Derived from this word
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 7 — not the complete family. 2 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 2 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 2 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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