Dictionaries :: Lehabim

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Lehabim:

flames; inflamed; swords

International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia

Lehabim:

le-ha'-bim (lehdbhim): Named in Ge 10:13; 1Ch 1:11 as descendants of Mizraim. They are probably to be identified with the LUBIM (which see), and the one word may be a corruption of the other.

Nave's Topical Bible

Lehabim: A Mizraite People

Gen 10:13; 1Ch 1:11

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Lehabim:

(fiery, flaming) occurring only in Genesis 10:13 the name of a Mizraite people or tribe. There can be no doubt that they are the same as the Rebu or Lebu of the Egyptian inscriptions, and that from them Libya and the Libyans derived their name. These primitive Libyans appear to have inhabited the northern part of Africa to the west of Egypt, though latterly driven from the coast by the Greek colonists of the Cyrenaica.