# לָבִיא (lavi)

Israeli respelling: la-vi. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H3833. 14 Old Testament occurrences.

to roar; a lion (properly, a lioness as the fiercer (although not a roarer;))

King James renderings: (great, old, stout) lion, lioness, young (lion).

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/lavi-h3833

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 49:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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; who shall rous…
- [Numbers 23:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/23/24) — Behold, the people shall rise up as a great lion, and lift up himself as a young lion: he shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, and…
- [Numbers 24:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/24/9) — He couched, he lay down as a lion, and as a great lion: who shall stir him up? Blessed is he that blesseth thee, and cursed is he that curs…
- [Deuteronomy 33:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/33/20) — And of Gad he said, Blessed be he that enlargeth Gad: he dwelleth as a lion, and teareth the arm with the crown of the head.
- [Job 4:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/4/11) — The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion’s whelps are scattered abroad.
- [Job 38:39](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/38/39) — Wilt thou hunt the prey for the lion? or fill the appetite of the young lions,
- [Psalms 57:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/57/4) — My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their…
- [Isaiah 5:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/5/29) — Their roaring shall be like a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and shall carry it aw…
- [Isaiah 30:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/30/6) — The burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the young and old lion, the viper and fiery f…
- [Ezekiel 19:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/19/2) — And say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.
- [Hosea 13:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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:…
- [Joel 1:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 gre…
- [Nahum 2:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nahum/2/11) — Where is the dwelling of the lions, and the feedingplace of the young lions, where the lion, even the old lion, walked, and the lion’s whel…
- [Nahum 2:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nahum/2/12) — The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his holes with prey, and his dens with ravin.