Strong H3864לוּב

Libyan

Transliteration: lûbîy lûbbîy
Pronunciation: {loo-bee'} loob-bee'
Morphology: Proper Name of a Location in Gentilic sense

Definition

Patrial from a name probably derived from an unused root meaning to {thirst} that {is} a dry region; apparently a Libyan or inhabitant of interior Africa (only in plural): - Lubim ({-s}) Libyans.

Detailed definition

Libya (Put or Pul), a country in North Africa mentioned in various Old Testament prophecies (Ezekiel 30:5; 38:5; Nahum 3:9).

In the biblical story

Libya

A country in North Africa

Libya (Put or Pul), a country in North Africa mentioned in various Old Testament prophecies (Ezekiel 30:5; 38:5; Nahum 3:9).

In the Bible

Strong H3864 appears in 4 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

lubims2
libyans1
lubim1

First 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.

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