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Strong's #3919 - לַיְשָׁה

Transliteration

Layish

Phonetics

lah'-yish

Root Word (Etymology)

the same as (H3918)

Parts of Speech

N/A

TWOT

None

Definition

Brown-Driver-Briggs
Strong

Brown-Driver-Briggs'

Laish = “lion”

1) father of Phaltiel, the man to whom king Saul gave his daughter Michal in marriage even though she was already married to David (noun proper masculine)

2) an early name for Dan, a town in northern Israel (noun proper locative)

3) a place north of Jerusalem; site unknown (noun proper locative)

Frequency Lists

Book
Word

Verse Results

KJV (6)

Judges 4

1 Samuel 1

Isaiah 1

HCS (0)

HCS (7)

Judges 4

1 Samuel 1

2 Samuel 1

Isaiah 1

BSB (7)

Judges 4

1 Samuel 1

2 Samuel 1

Isaiah 1

ESV (6)

Judges 4

1 Samuel 1

Isaiah 1

WEB (5)

Judges 4

1 Samuel 1

Brown-Driver-Briggs Expanded Definition

II. לַ֫יִשׁ proper name, of a location (on meaning lion, compare RS^{Semitic i. 156 (om. 2nd ed.)}); — former name of Daniel , in extreme north of Canaan, Judges 18:7,14,27,29 (see דָּן b); ᵐ5 Λαισα; = לֶשֶׁם q. v.; compare Buhl^{Geogr. § 124}.

III. לַ֫יִשׁ proper name, masculine father of Michal's second husband, 1 Samuel 25:44 + 2 Samuel 3:15 Qr (Kt לושׁ), ᵐ5 A Λμεις, Σελλης, ᵐ5^L Ιωας, Σελλειμ.

לַ֫יְשָׁה proper name, of a location North of Jerusalem Isaiah 10:30 (perhaps akin to III. לַיִשׁ, see Di); site unknown; see Kasteren^{ZPV xiii. 101} conjecture `Isawiye, village two miles northeast from Jerusalem (PEF^{Map; Mem. iii. 27} Rob^{BR i. 437} compare Buhl^{Geogr. 175}), ᵐ5 ἐν Σα, Λαισα.

List of Word Forms

לַ֖יְשָׁה לַ֖יִשׁ לַ֗יִשׁ לַ֥יִשׁ לַיִשׁ֒ לָ֑יְשָׁה לָֽיִשׁ׃ ליש ליש׃ לישה lā·yə·šāh la·yiš lā·yiš lay·šāh lāyəšāh Layeshah layiš lāyiš laYish layšāh Layshah