lavi · lioness

What it means

lavi (לָבִיא) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “lioness”.

(or full-grown lion).

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. The female lion, a strong animal that hunts and tears its prey.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• like a lioness ×6
• lioness ×6
• lionesses ×1
• lions ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Numbers×2
• Deuteronomy×1
• Job×2
• Psalms×1
• Isaiah×2
• Ezekiel×1
• Hosea×1
• Joel×1
• Nahum×2

• Genesis 49:9

  A lion’s cub is Judah; from the prey, my son, you have gone up. He crouches, he lies down like a lion, and like a lioness; who dares rouse him?

• Numbers 23:24

  Look, a people rises like a lioness, and like a lion it lifts itself up; it does not lie down until it devours the prey and drinks the blood of the slain.”

• Numbers 24:9

  He crouched, he lay down like a lion, and like a lioness; who will rouse him? Blessed is everyone who blesses you, and cursed is everyone who curses you.”

• Deuteronomy 33:20

  And of Gad he said, “Blessed be he who enlarges Gad. Like a lioness he dwells, and he tears the arm and also the crown of the head.

• Job 4:11

  The strong lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.

• Job 38:39

  Can you hunt prey for the lioness, or the appetite of the young lions fill,

• Psalms 57:4

  My soul is in the midst of lions; I lie down among those who blaze, human beings whose teeth are a spear and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

• Isaiah 5:29

  Its roar is like a lioness; it roars like young lions; it growls and seizes prey and carries it off to safety, and there is no one to rescue.

• Isaiah 30:6

  The burden of the beasts of the Negev. Through a land of distress and anguish, where the lioness and the lion are among them, the viper and the flying fiery serpent, they carry on the backs of young donkeys their riches, and on the humps of camels their treasures, to a people that does not profit.

• Ezekiel 19:2

  and say, “What a lioness was your mother among lions! She lay down in the midst of young lions; she reared her cubs.

• Hosea 13:8

  I will meet them like a bear robbed of her cubs, and I will tear open the covering of their heart, and there I will devour them like a lioness; the animal of the field will rip them apart.

• Joel 1:6

  For a nation has come up against my land, mighty and without number; its teeth are the teeth of a lion, and it has the fangs of a lioness.

• Nahum 2:11

  Where is the den of the lions and the feeding place of the young lions, where the lion walked, the lioness, there the lion’s cub, and there was no one to make them afraid?

• Nahum 2:12

  The lion tore enough for his cubs and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his caves with prey and his dens with torn flesh.