lehabim Summary and Overview

(fiery, flaming), occurring only in #Ge 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,a nd 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.

LE'HABIM (fiery, flaming), Gen 10:13; 1 Chr 1:11, LU'BIM or LIB'YANO, Dan 11:43; 2 Chr 12:3; 2 Chr 16:8; Nah 3:9; is the name of a people which in the Egyptian inscriptions is called "Lebu," and in classic and modern literature "Libyans." They were of Hamitic descent, and inhabited the northern part of Africa, west of Egypt. At Carthage they were thrown back toward the interior by a Phoenician colony, at Cyrene by a Greek colony; and the country Libya became finally a part of the Roman empire. In the oldest times, however, the Libyans seem to have been allies rather than the subjects of the Egyptians.

Or "the Lubim", western neighbours to the Egyptians (Genesis 10:13); the Rebu or Lebu of the monuments; the Libyans in Roman phrase. They served in the Egyptian armies (2 Chronicles 12:3; 2 Chronicles 16:8; Nahum 3:9; Daniel 11:43). The modern Tuariks and Berbers, aborigines of N. Africa, dwelling in the desert and sides of Atlas.