Strong's Hebrew Concordance

H3864: לוּבִי

Lûwbîy · pronounced loo-bee' · “Libyan”

Definition

a Libyan or inhabitant of interior Africa (only in plural)

KJV translates it as: Lubim(-s), Libyans.

Word origin: or לֻבִּי; (Daniel 11:43), partrial from a name probably derived from an unused root meaning to thirst, i.e. a dry region; apparently

Extended definition

§ Libyans = "empty-hearted (<ref="Dan.11.43">Da 11:43) or afflicted (<ref="Jer.46.9">Jer 46:9)
a people of northern Africa west of Egypt

Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).

How H3864 is translated

  • libyans ×3
  • the libyans ×1

Bible verses with H3864 (Lûwbîy)

Lûwbîy appears in 4 verses.

  • 2 Chronicles 12:3

    With twelve hundred chariots, and threescore thousand horsemen: and the people were without number that came with him out of Egypt; the Lubims, the Sukkiims, and the Ethiopians.

  • 2 Chronicles 16:8

    Were not the Ethiopians and the Lubims a huge host, with very many chariots and horsemen? yet, because thou didst rely on the Lord, he delivered them into thine hand.

  • Daniel 11:43

    But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.

  • Nahum 3:9

    Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and it was infinite; Put and Lubim were thy helpers.