Occurrences
Lâbîyʼ occurs 14 times in the King James.
Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (1), Numbers (2), Deuteronomy (1), Job (2), Psalms (1), Isaiah (2), Ezekiel (1), Hosea (1), Joel (1), Nahum (2)
- Genesis 49:9 — Judah is a lion’s whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion (וּכְלָבִ֖יא); who shall rouse him up?
- Numbers 23:24 — Behold, the people shall rise up as a great lion (כְּלָבִ֣יא), and lift up himself as a young lion: he shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, and drink the blood of the slain.
- Numbers 24:9 — He couched, he lay down as a lion, and as a great lion (וּכְלָבִ֖יא): who shall stir him up? Blessed is he that blesseth thee, and cursed is he that curseth thee.
- Deuteronomy 33:20 — And of Gad he said, Blessed be he that enlargeth Gad: he dwelleth as a lion (כְּלָבִ֣יא), and teareth the arm with the crown of the head.
- Job 4:11 — The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion’s (לָ֝בִ֗יא) whelps are scattered abroad.
- Job 38:39 — Wilt thou hunt the prey for the lion (לְלָבִ֣יא)? or fill the appetite of the young lions,
- Psalms 57:4 — My soul is among lions (לְבָאִם֮): and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
- Isaiah 5:29 — Their roaring shall be like a lion (כַּלָּבִ֑יא), they shall roar like young lions: yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and shall carry it away safe, and none shall deliver it.
- Isaiah 30:6 — The burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the young (לָבִ֧יא) and old lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people that shall not profit them.
- Ezekiel 19:2 — And say, What is thy mother? A lioness (לְבִיָּ֔א): she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.
- Hosea 13:8 — I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, and will rend the caul of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lion (כְּלָבִ֔יא): the wild beast shall tear them.
- Joel 1:6 — For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion (לָבִ֖יא).
- Nahum 2:11 — Where is the dwelling of the lions, and the feedingplace of the young lions, where the lion, even the old lion (לָבִ֥יא), walked, and the lion’s whelp, and none made them afraid?
- Nahum 2:12 — The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses (לְלִבְאֹתָ֑יו), and filled his holes with prey, and his dens with ravin.