Hebrew noun · H3833
לָבִיא
labilaw-bee'
lion; lioness; lion
14 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: lâbîyʼ
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3833is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 10 of 39Old Testament books
- 12spellings
- 3meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H3833
to roar; a lion (properly, a lioness as the fiercer (although not a roarer;))
The King James renders it: (great, old, stout) lion, lioness, young (lion).
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
labi is rendered "lion; lioness; lion". It stands 14 times in the Hebrew text, across ten books.
- Two of the uses stand in Numbers, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists three meanings for it, beginning with "lion".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 49:9Judah 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?
- The Greek text spells it twelve different ways.
The first use
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?
Genesis 49:9וּכְלָבִ֖יא
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
The lexicons give this word three senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: lion, and lioness, and lion.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| lionStrong's entry A | Tagged aslisted under the table | WhereGenesis 49:9Judah is a young lion—my son, you return from the prey. Like a lion he crouches and lies down… |
| lionessStrong's entry B | Tagged aslisted under the table | Wherein the ledger below |
| lionStrong's entry C | Tagged aslisted under the table | Wherein the ledger below |
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- like a lion3
- a lioness2
- and like a lion2
- lioness2
- a lion1
- for a lion1
- for lionesses its1
- like the lion1
- lions1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| לָבִיבָה | labibah | cake | Uses3 |
All 14, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
12 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- וּכְלָבִ֖יא2
- כְּלָבִ֣יא2
- כְּלָבִ֔יא1
- כַּלָּבִ֑יא1
- לְבָאִם֮1
- לְבִיָּ֔א1
- לָ֝בִ֗יא1
- לָבִ֧יא1
- לָבִ֖יא1
- לָבִ֥יא1
- לְלִבְאֹתָ֑יו1
- לְלָבִ֣יא1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular4HNcmsa
- preposition + noun · masculine singular4HR/Ncmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singular2HC/R/Ncmsa
- noun · feminine singular1HNcfsa
- noun · masculine plural1HNcmpa
- preposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HR/Ncfpc/Sp3ms
- preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular1HRd/Ncmsa
Genesis
one use
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?
- וּכְלָבִ֖יאukhelavi'conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: and like a lion
Numbers
two uses
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.”
- כְּלָבִ֣יאkelavi'preposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: like a lion
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.”
- וּכְלָבִ֖יאukhelavi'conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: and like a lion
Deuteronomy
one use
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.
- כְּלָבִ֣יאkelavi'preposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: like a lion
Job
two uses
Psalms
one use
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.
- לְבָאִם֮levaimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: lions
Isaiah
two uses
Their roaring is like that of a lion; they roar like young lions. They growl and seize their prey; they carry it away from deliverance.
- כַּלָּבִ֑יאkalavi'preposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: like the lion
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.
- לָבִ֧יאlavi'noun · masculine singulartagged: lioness
Ezekiel
one use
and say: ‘What was your mother? A lioness among the lions! She lay down among the young lions; she reared her cubs.
- לְבִיָּ֔אleviya'noun · feminine singulartagged: a lioness
Hosea
one use
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 would tear them apart.
- כְּלָבִ֔יאkelavi'preposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: like a lion
Joel
one use
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.
- לָבִ֖יאlavi'noun · masculine singulartagged: a lioness
Nahum
two uses
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?
- לָבִ֥יאlavi'noun · masculine singulartagged: lioness
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.
- לְלִבְאֹתָ֑יוlelivotavpreposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: for lionesses its
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.