לָבִיאlâbîyʼ

לְבִי: lion, only plural and figurative (Psalms 57:5; Nahum 2:13)

Pronunciation: law-bee' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H3833

Meanings

לְבִיָּא: lioness (Ezekiel 19:2)

לָבִיא: possibly also [feminine] lioness (Genesis 49:9; Numbers 24:9; Job 4:11; Isaiah 30:6; Job 38:39)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 14 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 49:9 Judah, my son, is a young lion that has finished eating its prey. Like a lion he crouches and lies down; like a lioness—who dares to rouse him?
  • Numbers 23:24 These people rise up like a lioness, like a majestic lion rousing itself. They refuse to rest until they have feasted on prey, drinking the blood of the slaughtered!”
  • Numbers 24:9 Like a lion, Israel crouches and lies down; like a lioness, who dares to arouse her? Blessed is everyone who blesses you, O Israel, and cursed is everyone who curses you.”
  • Deuteronomy 33:20 Moses said this about the tribe of Gad: “Blessed is the one who enlarges Gad’s territory! Gad is poised there like a lion to tear off an arm or a head.
  • Job 4:11 The fierce lion will starve for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness will be scattered.
  • Job 38:39 “Can you stalk prey for a lioness and satisfy the young lions’ appetites
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).