*לְבָא or לְבֵי (v. לָבָה) [to grow white; cmp. Joel I, 7,] to be dried up, v. infra.
Pa. - לַבֵּא or לַבֵּי to lay dry. M. Kat. 11ᵃ פום בדיתאי לַבְּאֵי כוורי Ar. ed. Koh. the Pumbeditheans laid the fish dry (by changing the course of the water); [ed. as corrected in marginal note (v. also Rabb. D. S. a. l. note 300): בפום בדיתא לְבָאֵי כוורי at P. the fish were laid dry (the water failing through some obstruction in the channel); Var. in Ar. בריתא לְבָאִי (read בד׳) the B’ditha dried up].