Word

לַיִשׁ

Layish · H3919 · Hebrew · proper noun · 7 occurrences

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This name belongs to 2 places

Person

Meanings

  1. Laishah

    Location; territory of Benjamin

    Examples

    Isaiah 10:30 Cry aloud with your voice, daughter of Gallim! Pay attention, Laishah and wretched Anathoth!

How it’s used In 4 roles

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the word studied the word it goes with

Named alongside itApposition

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

2 occurrences in 1 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 1 entry
Names of Locations003001010
Laish names the northern town later conquered and renamed Dan by the tribe of Dan, as in Judges 18:29's "they called the name of the city Dan...however, previously the name of the city was Laish," placing it among place names.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3919. Layish II. לַ֫יִשׁ proper name, of a location (on meaning lion, compare RSSemitic…
H3919. Layish
II. לַ֫יִשׁ proper name, of a location (on meaning lion, compare RSSemitic i. 156 (om. 2nd ed.)); — former name of Dan, in extreme north of Canaan, Jdg 18:7, Jdg 18:14, Jdg 18:27, Jdg 18:29 (see דָּן b); ᵐ5 Λαισα; = לֶשֶׁם q. v.; compare BuhlGeogr. § 124.
III. לַ֫יִשׁ proper name, masculine father of Michal's second husband, 1Sa 25:44 + 2Sa 3:15 Qr (Kt לושׁ), ᵐ5 A Λμεις, Σελλης, ᵐ5L Ιωας, Σελλειμ.
לַ֫יְשָׁה proper name, of a location North of Jerusalem Isa 10:30 (perhaps akin to III. לַיִשׁ, see Di); site unknown; see KasterenZPV xiii. 101 conjecture `Isawiye, village two miles northeast from Jerusalem (PEFMap; Mem. iii. 27 RobBR i. 437 compare BuhlGeogr. 175), ᵐ5 ἐν Σα, Λαισα.

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

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.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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