לֵוִי
Lêvîy · lay-vee'
Levi, a son of Jacob
Lexicon
Derivation: from H3867 (לָוָה); attached;
Levi, a son of Jacob
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: Levi. See also H3879 (לֵוִי), H3881 (לֵוִיִּי).
Letters
- לLamed30
Picture: shepherd's staff or goad
- Concrete
- staff · goad · yoke · cattle prod
- Extended
- authority · to lead · to teach · to bind · toward
- וVav6
Picture: tent peg or hook
- Concrete
- nail · peg · hook
- Extended
- to fasten · to secure · to establish · and (joining)
- יYod10
Picture: arm and closed hand
- Concrete
- hand · arm · work
- Extended
- a deed · to make · to work · to throw or worship
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
authority, the one who leads › to fasten and establish › the hand that works
Authority, the one who leads that works to fasten and establish of the hand that works.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of לֵוִי above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
59 occurrences · 59 OT · 0 NT · 25 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- of levi51 · 80%
- and levi5 · 8%
- levi3 · 5%
- to levi1 · 2%
- wherefore levi1 · 2%
- and of levi1 · 2%
- but levi1 · 2%
- might be with levi1 · 2%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.