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Strong's #3918 - לַיִשׁ
- Brown-Driver-Briggs
- Strong
1) lion
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1274) sl (לסה LSh) AC: Knead CO: Lion AB: ?
J) sfl (לוסה LWSh) AC: Knead CO: ? AB: ?
V) sfl (לוסה LWSh) - Knead: KJV (5): (vf: Paal) knead - Strongs: H3888 (לוּשׁ)
M) sil (ליסה LYSh) AC: ? CO: Lion AB: ?
Nm ) sil (ליסה LYSh) - Lion: From the act of kneading its prey when caught. KJV (3): lion - Strongs: H3918 (לַיִשׁ)
Adopted Roots:
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
, ᵑ7לֵיתָא; Assyrian nešu, lion is compare by Hal (compare Hpt KAT 2,510) Ba ZA iii. 1888,60); — lion Job 4:11; Isaiah 30:6 ("" לָבִיא), גִּבּוֹר׳ל בַּבְּהֵמָה Proverbs 30:30.
לַיִשׁ m.
(1) [In Thes. from לוּשׁ], a lion, so called from his strength, Isaiah 30:6; Job 4:11; Proverbs 30:30. (Arab. لَيْثُ, Chald. לַיִת, Gr. λῖς, ap. Hom. id.)
(2) [Laish], pr.n.
(a) of a place on the northern borders of Palestine, elsewhere called לֶשֶׁם and דָּן (which see), Judges 18:7, 29 Judges 18:29 with the addition of ־ָה local, Isaiah 10:30, where others understand some other town near Jerusalem to be intended; see Comment. on the place.
(b) of a man, 1 Samuel 25:44, and 2 Samuel 3:15 קרי.
