Lay; Laying
la, la'-ing:(1) sim, "to put," and the Greek equivalent, tithemi, are very frequently translated by "to lay." the Revised Version (British and American) very often changes the K...
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Lazarus
laz'-a-rus (Lazaros, an abridged form of the Hebrew name Eleazar, with a Greek termination): Means "God has helped." In Septuagint and Josephus are found the forms Eleazar, and ...
Leach
lech.SeeHORSELEACH.
Lead
led (`ophereth): Lead was one of the first metals to be used in the free state, probably because it was so easily obtained from its ores. Lead was found in ancient times in Egyp...
Leaf; Leaves
lef, levz: Used in three different senses, with reference:(1) To trees (`aleh, "a coming up"),Ge 3:7;8:11;Le 26:36(Tereph);Eze 17:9; phullon. Figuratively(a) of spiritual blessi...
League
leg.SeeCONFEDERACY.
Leah
le'-a (le'ah; Leia, "weary," "dull"(?), "wild cow"): Rachel's sister, and the elder daughter of Laban (Ge 29:16). We are told that her eyes were "tender" rakkoth). Gesenius rend...
Leannoth
le-an'-oth (Ps 88, title).SeePSALMS.
Leaping
lep'-ing.SeeGAMES.
Leasing
lez'-ing (kazabh "to devise," "to fabricate," hence, "to lie"; occurs but twice in the King James Version (Ps 4:2, the Revised Version (British and American) "falsehood"; 5:6, t...
Leather
leth'-er.SeeSKIN;GIRDLE;TANNER.
Leaven
lev'-n (se'or, chamets; zume; Latin fermentum): The nomadic ancestors of the Hebrews, like the Bedouin of today, probably made their bread without leaven; but leaven came to pla...
Lebana
le-ba'-na, leb'-a-na (lebhana'), or family of returning exiles (Ezr 2:45;Ne 7:48; compare /RAPC 1Es 5:29).
Lebanon
leb'-a-non (lebanon; Septuagint Libanos; Vulgate (Jerome's Latin Bible, 390-405 A.D.) Libanus):1. Name:Derived from the root labhen, "to be white," probably from the snow which ...
Lebaoth
le-ba'-oth, -oth (lebha'oth): An unidentified city in the South of the territory of Judah (Jos 15:32). It is the same as Bethlebaoth ofJos 19:6, which, by a clerical error appea...
Lebbaeus
SeeTHADDAEUS.
Lebonah
le-bo'-na (lebhonah): A place on the great north road between Shiloh and Shechem (Jud 21:19). It is represented by the modern Khan el-Lubban, about 3 miles West-Northwest of Sei...
Lecah
le'-ka (lekhah): A descendant of Judah (1Ch 4:21).
Ledge
lej (shalabh): The word in the sense of side-projection is used in1Ki 7:28,29in connection with the bases of Solomon's Molten Sea (see SEA, THE MOLTEN); in 7:35,36, where the Ki...
Leeks
leks (chatsir; ta prasa): This word, elsewhere translated "grass," is inNu 11:5rendered "leeks" in all the ancient VSS, on account of its association with garlic and onions; suc...
Lees
lez.SeeWINE.
Left
left (sama'l, "to go to the left," "to turn to the left," semo'l, "the left hand," sema'li, "belonging to the left," "situated on the left"; aristeros, and euphemistically euonu...
Lefthanded
left'-hand-ed ('iTTer yadh-yamin; Septuagint amphoterodexios, i.e. "ambidextrous"): The Hebrew presents a combination of words signifying literally, a man whose right hand is im...
Leg
(1) shoq, Aramaic shoq;(2) kara`, dual kera`ayim;(3) reghel; skelos; the King James Version translates also shobhel, and tse`adhah, with "leg," but mistakenly):(1) The first Heb...
Legion
le'-jun.See ARMY; ARMY, ROMAN.
Legislation, Of Sanctity
lej-is-la'-shun.See ASTRONOMY, sec. I, 5.
Lehabim
le-ha'-bim (lehdbhim): Named inGe 10:13;1Ch 1:11as descendants of Mizraim. They are probably to be identified with theLUBIM(which see), and the one word may be a corruption of t...