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title: לִבְנִי — Libnite · The Tanakh dictionary
description: לִבְנִי (3846), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: Libnite. BDB 1906: adj.gent. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# לִבְנִי

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«לִבְנִי» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Libnite** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 3846 · **BDB:** לִבְנִי²

### Glosses

the.Libnite\[s\] (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Libnite [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3846/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

adj.gent. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3846/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** adj.gent. of foregoing, always c. art. הַלּ׳ as subst. coll., Nu 3:21; 26:58.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «לִבְנִי» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3846/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Numbers 3:21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.3.21/)

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לְגֵ֣רְשׁ֔וֹן מִשְׁפַּ֙חַת֙ הַלִּבְנִ֔י וּמִשְׁפַּ֖חַת הַשִּׁמְעִ֑י אֵ֣לֶּה הֵ֔ם מִשְׁפְּחֹ֖ת הַגֵּרְשֻׁנִּֽי׃

*Word for word:* \[belonged\].to Gershon the.clan of the.Libnite\[s\] and the.clan of the.Shimeite\[s\] these they \[were\].the.clans of the.Gershonite\[s\]

*JPS 1917:* Of Gershon was the family of the Libnites, and the family of the Shimeites; these are the families of the Gershonites.

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