לָוָה lavah
Hebrew word for “to borrow” · Strong’s H3867 · used 26 times in 22 verses
Meaning
1) to borrow, lend; 1a) (Qal) to borrow; 1b) (Hiphil) to cause to borrow, lend to
Senses in the lexicon
- to borrow (14)
- to join (12)
How it is translated
Glosses given for lavah in context, with how often each is used:
- will lend to 4
- will join themselves 4
- borrower 2
- lender 2
- will join himself 2
- will borrow 1
- have borrowed 1
- borrowing 1
- lending 1
- who lends 1
- lending to 1
- may join themselves 1
Where it is used
| Book | Uses | Per 1,000 words | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Isaiah | 5 | 0.3 | |
| Deuteronomy | 4 | 0.3 | |
| Psalms | 4 | 0.2 | |
| Proverbs | 3 | 0.4 | |
| Numbers | 2 | 0.1 | |
| Genesis | 1 | 0.0 | |
| Exodus | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Nehemiah | 1 | 0.2 | |
| Esther | 1 | 0.3 | |
| Ecclesiastes | 1 | 0.3 | |
| Jeremiah | 1 | 0.0 | |
| Daniel | 1 | 0.2 |
Also in 1 more book.
Chapters where it is used most
Numbers 18 (2), Deuteronomy 28 (2), Psalms 37 (2), Isaiah 56 (2), Genesis 29 (1), Exodus 22 (1), Nehemiah 5 (1), Esther 9 (1), Psalms 83 (1), Psalms 112 (1)
Forms
- ונלוו 4
- תלוה 2
- לוה 2
- ומלוה 2
- מלוה 2
- הנלוים 2
- והלוית 1
- ילוך 1
- תלונו 1
- לוינו 1
Words used with it
Words that share verses with lavah more often than their overall frequency would suggest:
- חָנַן chanan “be gracious” 4
- נָשָׁה nashah “to lend” 2
- נֵכָר nekhar “foreign” 2
- לֵוִי levi “Levi” 2
- רַב rav “many” 3
- טוֹב tov “pleasant” 3
- שָׁרַת sharat “to minister” 2
- שָׁלֵם salem “to complete” 2
- עֶבֶד eved “servant/slave” 3
- זֶרַע zera “seed” 2
- אַתָּה attah “you(m.s.)” 3
- קָרַב qarav “to present” 2
Key verses
The verses using lavah that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):
- Exodus 22:25 — If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as an usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury.
- Deuteronomy 28:12 — The LORD shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou…
- Psalms 37:21 — The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again: but the righteous sheweth mercy, and giveth.
- Psalms 37:26 — He is ever merciful, and lendeth; and his seed is blessed.
- Psalms 112:5 — A good man sheweth favour, and lendeth: he will guide his affairs with discretion.
- Proverbs 19:17 — He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.
- Isaiah 14:1 — For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall…
- Isaiah 24:2 — And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so…
- Isaiah 56:3 — Neither let the son of the stranger, that hath joined himself to the LORD, speak, saying, The LORD hath utterly separated me from his people: neither let the…
- Isaiah 56:6 — Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the LORD, to serve him, and to love the name of the LORD, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the…
- Jeremiah 50:5 — They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherward, saying, Come, and let us join ourselves to the LORD in a perpetual covenant that shall not be…
- Zechariah 2:11 — And many nations shall be joined to the LORD in that day, and shall be my people: and I will dwell in the midst of thee, and thou shalt know that the LORD of…
See all 22 verses in the Word Atlas
Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.