Jastrow: לַיִשׁ I

לַיִשׁ I m. (b. h.) lion. Snh. 94ᵇ bot. (ref. to לַיְשָׁה, Is. X, 30) מהאי לא … דמתיל כאריה of him (Sennaherib) be not afraid, but be afraid of Nebucadnezzar who is compared to a lion (Jer. IV, 7). Ib. 95ᵃ מי דמי התם ארי הכא ל׳ how can you draw an analogy between these two passages?; there (Is. l. c.) layish is used, while here it is ări!—Ib. ששה שמות … וכ׳ the lion goes by six appellations &c., v. לָבִיא; Ab. d’R. N. ch. XXXIX; ib. II Vers. ch. XLIII; Yalk. Prov. 959, v. לוּשׁ; a. e.