לְבִיָּא

Biblical Hebrew

lioness — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

Meaning

OpenScriptures lexical index

lioness tree →

Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

לְבִיָּא: n.f. lioness tree →

The whole BDB entry

n.f. lioness (on format. v. LagBN 93);—Ez 19:2 (‖ אֲרָיוֹת) fig. of mother of Isr.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a lioness (1).

In the verses

Ezekiel 19:2 · tree →

וְאָמַרְתָּ֗ מָ֤ה אִמְּךָ֙ לְבִיָּ֔א בֵּ֥ין אֲרָי֖וֹת רָבָ֑צָה בְּת֥וֹךְ כְּפִרִ֖ים רִבְּתָ֥ה גוּרֶֽיהָ׃

Word for word: and you.will.say what? mother [was].your a.lioness between lions she.lay.down among young.lions she.reared cubs her

JPS 1917: and say: How was thy mother a lioness; among lions she couched, in the midst of the young lions she reared her whelps!

On Mova

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Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).

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