lava · join; borrow, lend

What it means

lava (לָוָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “join; borrow, lend”.

Join, attach oneself to someone. The same verb means "borrow" and, in another form, "lend".

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. To join oneself to someone and be bound to him.
2. To receive something belonging to another on loan, bound to give it back.
3. To give something of one's own to someone in need, to be returned later.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• lends ×4
• will join ×3
• borrower ×2
• has joined ×2
• They shall be joined ×1
• We have borrowed ×1
• as with the lender ×1
• borrow ×1
• borrows ×1
• join yourselves ×1
• others ×9

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Exodus×1
• Numbers×2
• Deuteronomy×4
• Nehemiah×1
• Esther×1
• Psalms×4
• Proverbs×3
• Ecclesiastes×1
• Isaiah×5
• Jeremiah×1
• Daniel×1
• Zechariah×1

• Genesis 29:34

  She conceived again and bore a son, and said, “Now this time my husband will be joined to me, because I have borne him three sons.” That is why he called his name Levi.

• Exodus 22:25

  If you lend silver to my people, to the poor with you, you shall not be to him like a creditor; you shall not lay interest on him.

• Numbers 18:2

  And also your brothers, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, bring near with you, so that they may be joined to you and minister to you, while you and your sons with you are before the tent of the testimony.

• Numbers 18:4

  They shall be joined to you and keep the charge of the tent of meeting for all the service of the tent; and a stranger shall not come near to you.

• Deuteronomy 28:12

  YHWH will open to you his good storehouse, the heavens, to give the rain of your land in its season and to bless all the work of your hand; and you will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow.

• Deuteronomy 28:44

  He will lend to you, and you will not lend to him; he will be the head, and you will be the tail.

• Nehemiah 5:4

  And there were those who were saying, “We have borrowed silver for the tribute of the king on our fields and our vineyards.

• Esther 9:27

  the Jews established and accepted for themselves and for their offspring and for all who joined them, so that it would not pass away, that they would observe these two days according to their writing and according to their appointed time, every year;

• Psalms 37:21

  The wicked borrows and does not repay, but the righteous shows favor and gives.

• Psalms 37:26

  All the day he shows favor and lends, and his offspring is for a blessing.

• Psalms 83:8

  Also Assyria has joined them; they have been an arm to the sons of Lot. Selah.

• Psalms 112:5

  Good is the man who shows favor and lends; he conducts his affairs with justice.

• Proverbs 19:17

  Whoever shows favor to the poor lends to YHWH, and his good deed he will repay him.

• Proverbs 22:7

  The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is slave to the man who lends.

• Ecclesiastes 8:15

  And I praised joy, because there is no good for the human being under the sun except to eat and to drink and to rejoice, and this will accompany him in his toil through the days of his life which Elohim has given him under the sun.

• Isaiah 14:1

  For YHWH will have compassion on Jacob and will again choose Israel, and will settle them on their own ground; and the resident alien will join them, and they will attach themselves to the house of Jacob.

• Isaiah 24:2

  And it will be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the slave, so with his master; as with the female slave, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the creditor, so with the one who owes him.

• Isaiah 56:3

  And let not the son of the foreigner who has joined himself to YHWH say, “YHWH will surely separate me from his people”; and let not the eunuch say, “Look, I am a dry tree.”

• Isaiah 56:6

  And the sons of the foreigner who join themselves to YHWH, to serve him, and to love the name of YHWH, to be his servants, everyone who keeps the Sabbath so as not to profane it, and who hold fast to my covenant:

• Jeremiah 50:5

  They will ask about Zion, about the way, with their faces set this way: “Come, and join yourselves to YHWH in an eternal covenant that will not be forgotten.”

• Daniel 11:34

  And when they stumble they will be helped with a little help, and many will join them with intrigues.

• Zechariah 2:11

  And many nations will join themselves to YHWH on that day, and they will be a people to me; and I will dwell in your midst,” and you will know that YHWH Tsevaot has sent me to you.

And 4 more times.