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le.vi H3833

לְבִי (le.vi) means “lion” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.

לְבִי Hebrew · H3833 14 tagged occurrences in 14 verses

Pronunciation guide: law-bee' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESH · H3833A

לְבִי · le.vi · lion

lion

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TBESH · H3833B

לְבִיָּא · le.viy.ya · lioness

lioness Another spelling of la.vi (לָבִיא "lion" H3833C)

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TBESH · H3833C

לָבִיא · la.vi · lion

lion Also means: le.viy.ya (לְבִיָּא "lioness" H3833B)

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Strong’s Hebrew dictionary

or (Ezekiel 19:2) לְבִיָּא; irregular masculine plural לְבָאִים; irregular feminine plural לְבָאוֹת; from an unused root meaning; compare H738 (אֲרִי) to roar; a lion (properly, a lioness as the fiercer (although not a roarer;))

KJV glosses: (great, old, stout) lion, lioness, young (lion).

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How translators render H3833

Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.

BSB rendering counts
Rendering Count
like a lioness 3
like a lion 2
a lioness 1
and lioness 1
for a lioness 1
for the lioness 1
is like that of a lion 1
of a lioness 1
of lioness 1
of the lioness 1
the lions 1
KJV rendering counts
Rendering Count
a lioness 1
and as a great lion 1
and as an old lion 1
and the stout lions 1
as a great lion 1
as a lion 1
for his lionesses 1
for the lion 1
like a lion 1
lions 1
of a great lion 1
the old lion 1
the young 1
them like a lion 1

Verses containing H3833

Page 1 of 1. 14 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.

  1. Genesis 49:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Judah is a young lion—my son, you return from the prey. Like a lion he crouches and lies down; like a lioness, who dares to rouse him?

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  2. Numbers 23:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Behold, the people rise like a lioness; they rouse themselves like a lion, not resting until they devour their prey and drink the blood of the slain.”

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  3. Numbers 24:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    He crouches, he lies down like a lion, like a lioness—who dares to rouse him? Blessed are those who bless you and cursed are those who curse you.”

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  4. Deuteronomy 33:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Concerning Gad he said: “Blessed is he who enlarges the domain of Gad! He lies down like a lion and tears off an arm or a head.

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  5. Job 4:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    The old lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.

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  6. Job 38:39 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Can you hunt the prey for a lioness or satisfy the hunger of young lions

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  7. Psalms 57:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    My soul is among the lions; I lie down with ravenous beasts—with men whose teeth are spears and arrows, whose tongues are sharp swords.

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    Source alternate reference: 57.5

  8. Isaiah 5:29 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Their roaring is like that of a lion; they roar like young lions. They growl and seize their prey; they carry it away, and no one can rescue it.

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  9. Isaiah 30:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    This is the burden against the beasts of the Negev: Through a land of hardship and distress, of lioness and lion, of viper and flying serpent, they carry their wealth on the backs of donkeys and their treasures on the humps of camels, to a people of no profit to them.

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  10. Ezekiel 19:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    and say: ‘What was your mother? A lioness among the lions! She lay down among the young lions; she reared her cubs.

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  11. Hosea 13:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Like a bear robbed of her cubs I will attack them, and I will tear open their chests. There I will devour them like a lion, like a wild beast tearing them apart.

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  12. Joel 1:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For a nation has invaded My land, powerful and without number; its teeth are the teeth of a lion, and its fangs are the fangs of a lioness.

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  13. Nahum 2:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Where is the lions’ lair or the feeding ground of the young lions, where the lion and lioness prowled with their cubs, with nothing to frighten them away?

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    Source alternate reference: 2.12

  14. Nahum 2:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    The lion mauled enough for its cubs and strangled prey for the lioness. It filled its dens with the kill, and its lairs with mauled prey.

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    Source alternate reference: 2.13

Sources and text

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