Bible Names

Levi: meaning of the name

Levi means “associated with him.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Levi in Hebrew and Greek

Λευΐ G3017

Leuḯ — Levi, the name of three Israelites

of Hebrew origin (H03878);

Λευΐς G3018

Leuḯs — Lewis (i.e. Levi), a Christian

a form of G3017 (Λευΐ);

People named Levi in the Bible

Levi in Scripture

“Levi” appears in 69 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

  • Genesis 29:34

    And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, Now this time will my husband be joined unto me, because I have born him three sons: therefore was his name called Levi.

  • Genesis 34:25

    And it came to pass on the third day, when they were sore, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brethren, took each man his sword, and came upon the city boldly, and slew all the males.

  • Genesis 34:30

    And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me to make me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and I being few in number, they shall gather themselves together against me, and slay me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house.

  • Genesis 35:23

    The sons of Leah; Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun:

  • Genesis 46:11

    And the sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

  • Genesis 49:5

    Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations.

  • Exodus 1:2

    Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,

  • Exodus 2:1

    And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi.