• לְבִיָּא S 3833 TWOT 1070b GK 4234 n.f. lioness ( on format. v. Lag BN 93 ) ;—Ez
19:2
(
||
אֲרָיֹות
)
fig.
of mother of Isr.
•
לָבִיא
S
3833
TWOT
1070b, 1070c
GK
4216, 4233
n.
[
m.
]
lion
, poss. also [
f.
]
lioness
(
cf.
Arabic usage, and
Gn 49:9 Nu 24:9 Jb 4:1
1, etc.; but this by no means certain);—
ל׳
abs.
Gn 49:9
+
10 times;—
Is 30:6
(
||
לַיִשׁ
),
Jb 38:39
(
||
כְּפִיר
);
Gn 49:9
in
sim.
of victor’s repose (
רָבַץ
;
||
אַרְיֵה
),
cf.
Nu 24:9
(
c.
שָׁכַב
;
||
אֲרִי
),
Dt 33:20
(
שָׁכֵן וְטָרַף
);
v.
also
Nu 23:24
(
קוּם
;
||
אֲרִי
);
fig.
of Nineveh
Na 2:12
(
||
אַרְיֵה
),
cf.
Is 5:29
(
שָֽׁאֲגָה
in
sim.
;
||
כְּפִירִים
);
fig.
of wicked
Jb 4:11
(
+
אַרְיֵה
,
שָׁ˜הַל
,
כְּפִיר
,
לַיִשׁ
v
1
0,
11
);
sim.
of
י׳
, devouring (
אָכַל
) in judgment
Ho 13:8
;
fig.
of locusts
מְתַלְּעֹות ל׳
Jo 1:6
(
||
אַרְיֵה שִׁנֵּי
).
• לְבָאֹות S 3822 GK 4219 n.pr.loc. a city in S. Judah, Jos 15:32 , Ö Λαβως , A
Ö L Λαβωθ = בֵּית ל׳ ( q.v. p. 111 supr. ) Jos 19:6 , Ö Βαθαρωθ , Ö L Βηθλεβαωθ . Site unknown.
•לבב (meaning dub.; Dl Pr . 88 ff. finds orig. meaning in Assyrian labâbu , in unruhiger Bewegung sein; — √ of לֵבָב , לֵב ; cf. NH id. , Assyrian libbu , Aramaic לִבָּא , ܠܶܒܳܐ ( lebo ), Ethiopic ˜˜ ( ləbb ) Arabic لُبٌّ ( lubbun ), Sab. לב , Sab.Denkm. p. 13, No. 1, 1. 7) ;—the literary usage of לֵב and לֵבָב is: 1. earliest poetry, J and E chiefly, Eph doc. of Ju S K chiefly, Am Ho Zc 9–11 Is 15 use לֵב . 2. לֵבָב first appears in Is and certain strata of E and Eph doc. of Ju S K, and is continued in Zp Na (prob.) D H Dt editors and some ψψ . 3. Je Ez Jb prefer לֵב but use occasionally לֵבָב . 4. Is 2 , 3 La and exilic ψψ use לֵב . 5. Is 13–14:23 Je 50–51 Hg Zc 1–8 Jo Jon ψ 25 , 90 , 104 , use לבב . 6. Mal Ob Zc 12–14 Memorials of Ezr and Ne Pr Ru Ct and many ψψ of Persian period use לֵב . 7. Chr and Dn use לֵבָב . 8. Ec Est and latest ψψ use לֵב . Exceptions will be noted and suspected passages indicated by? under לבב and לב which are treated apart. See Br ‘Study of the use of לב and לבב in the OT ’ in Semitic Studies in Memory of Dr. Kohut , Berlin, 1897.
sim. simile.
No. number. Br C. A. Briggs. OT Old Testament.