לוּבִי

luvi · Libyans

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H3864 · appears 4 times in the Bible

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What it means

luvi (לוּבִי) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Libyans”.

A people of North Africa, west of Egypt.

How to say it

lu·vi

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. A people west of Egypt.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Where it appears

  • 2 Chronicles 12:3

    with a thousand two hundred chariots and sixty thousand horsemen; and there was no number to the people who came with him from Egypt: Libyans, Sukkites, and Cushites.

  • 2 Chronicles 16:8

    Were not the Cushites and the Libyans a numerous force, with chariots and horsemen in very great number? Yet because you relied on YHWH, he gave them into your hand.

  • Daniel 11:43

    And he will rule over the hidden treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt; and the Libyans and the Cushites will be at his steps.

  • Nahum 3:9

    Cush was her strength, and Egypt, and there was no end; Put and the Libyans were your help.