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Job 4:11
“The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion’s whelps are scattered abroad.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
לַיִשׁlayish · lah'-yish
H3918 · Hebrew
H3918 · Hebrew
- Definition
- a lion (from his destructive blows)
- Derivation
- from H3888 (לוּשׁ) in the sense of crushing;
- KJV renderings
- (old) lion.
- Grammar
- לַ֭יִשׁ — common noun, masculine, singular, absolute
- Usage
- Occurs 3 times in the Hebrew Bible.Proverbs 30:30Isaiah 30:6
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read לַיִשׁ here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.