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לֵוִי

Lêvîy · H3878 · Hebrew · proper noun · 43 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. levi, a man and tribe

    The third son of Jacob and Leah, founder of one of the tribes of Israel, later responsible for temple duties

    Examples

    Genesis 29:34 And she conceived again and gave birth to a son, and said, “Now this time my husband will become attached to me, because I have borne him three sons.” Therefore he was named Levi.

    Genesis 34:25 Now it came about on the third day, when they were in pain, that two of Jacob’s sons—Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brothers—each took his sword and came upon the city undetected, and killed every male.

    Genesis 34:30 Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought trouble on me by making me repulsive among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites; and since my men are few in number, they will band together against me and attack me, and I will be destroyed, I and my household!”

  2. Levite

    Member of the Levite clan, responsible for temple duties

    Examples

    Exodus 6:19 And the sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their generations.

    1 Chronicles 12:26 From the sons of Levi, 4,600.

    1 Chronicles 23:14 But as for Moses, the man of God, his sons were named among the tribe of Levi.

How it’s used In 7 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Named alongside itApposition

3 occurrences in 2 groups

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

Second object ofSecond object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What it is said to bePredicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

4 occurrences in 4 groups

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

32 occurrences in 9 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 2 entries
Names of People003001007
Levi is Jacob's third son by Leah, as in Genesis 29:34's "she named him Levi," placing him among personal names.
Names of Groups003001006
The same name also designates the tribe of Levi descended from him, as in Numbers 1:49's exemption of "the tribe of Levi" from the general census, placing it among named groups or tribes.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3878. Levi I. לֵוִי proper name, masculine Levi (√ and meaning dubious; Gen 29:34 (J)…
H3878. Levi
I. לֵוִי proper name, masculine Levi (√ and meaning dubious; Gen 29:34 (J) interpreted as joined, i. e. husband to wife; Num 18:2, Num 18:4 (P; apparently in word-play) of Levites as joined to, attendant upon, Aaron; originally as attached to, accompanying Israel from Egypt, LagOr. ii. 20 f.; as attached to, attending upon the ark, BauPriest. 74; in this case
I.לֵוִי would be derived from
II. לֵוִי in priestly sense; HomA. u. A. 1890, 30 f. proposes Minaean לוא, lau'ân, priest, compare IdSüd-Arab. Chrest. 127; against all such views see KauSK 1890, 771 f. WeProl. ed. 5, 141; Hist. Israel 145 StaZAW i (1881), 112 ff. GrayProp. Names, p. 96, compare NöZMG xi (1886). 167, make לֵוִי name, of a people from לֵאָה (q. v.); compare a further suggestion WeSkizzen iii. 114) — ᵐ5 Λευ(ε)ι(ν); —
1. a. Levi, son of Jacob and Leah, as individual, Gen 29:34; Gen 34:25, Gen 34:30; Gen 35:23; Gen 49:5 (all J); Gen 35:23; Gen 46:11; Exo 1:2; Exo 6:16; Exo 16:16; Num 3:17; Num 16:1 (all P); 1 Chronicles 21; 1Ch 5:22; 1Ch 6:1; 1Ch 6:4; 1Ch 6:23; 1Ch 6:28; 1Ch 6:32; 1Ch 23:6; Ezr 8:18; so ׳בַּתלֿ [אֶתֿ] Exo 2:1 (E), Num 26:59 (P).
b. as head of a family of descendants, in phrase לֵוִי בֵּית Exo 2:1 (E), and (with reference to tribe; late) Numbers 17:23, ל בֵּית ׳מִשְׁמַּחַת Zec 12:13.
c. often ל ׳בְּנֵי(ֿ) Exo 32:26, Exo 32:28 (E), Jos 21:10 (P), ל ׳בְּנֵי(ֿ) with tribal reference Num 3:15; Num 4:2; Num 18:21 (charged with service of tabernacle, and hence to receive tithes; all P); as priests לֵוִי בְּנֵי הַכֹּהֲנִים Deu 21:5; Deu 31:9, compare Mal 3:3, and ל מִבְּנֵי הָיוּ ׳לֹא 1Ki 12:31; from the ל ׳בְּנֵי the Zadokites are selected as priests Eze 40:46; according to 1Ch 9:18; 1Ch 23:24, 1Ch 23:27 ל ׳בְּנֵי are subordinate officials in temple (compare 1Ch 23:28f.), compare 1Ch 24:20; sharply distinguished from priests Ezr 8:15; Neh 12:23 (compare Neh 12:22); so also in later stratum of story of Korah's revolt Num 16:7-8, Num 16:10 (P2).
2 as name of tribe, ל ׳שֵׁבֶט Deu 18:1 (priestly tribe), ל ׳מַטֵּה Num 1:49 (in charge of tabernacle), Num 3:6; Num 18:2 (ministers unto Aaron); לֵוִי alone = (tribe of) Levi Deu 27:12; Deu 33:8 (earlier poem), Num 26:58 (P), Eze 48:31; Mal 2:4 (priestly tribe, compare Mal 2:1), 1Ch 21:6; 1Ch 27:17; ל ׳מַטֵּה =rod of (the tribe of) Levi Numbers 17:18 (P); also (no inheritance, because charged with service of tabernacle) Deu 10:9.
[לֵוָי] name, of a people Levite (Biblical Hebrew לִוֵי); — plural emphatic לויא Kt, לְוָאֵי Qr (K§§ 61, 6); 52. d), Ezr 6:16, Ezr 6:18; Ezr 7:13, Ezr 7:24 (all + priests).

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Names of Groups5 occurrencesNames of People38 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

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