Senses
1. Levi (patriarch and tribe) — The proper noun לֵוִי (Levi), referring to the third son of Jacob and Leah, and by extension the tribe descended from him. All four clusters represent the same personal/tribal name with variation only in conjunctions (and-Levi), prepositions (to/for Levi), and the article (the Levite, referring to the tribe). Arabic consistently uses لَاوِي (Lāwī), Korean uses 레위 (Rewi, 'Levi'), Hindi uses लेवी (Levī), Swahili uses Lawi, and Spanish uses Leví/Levi. The gentilicn 'the Levite' (S108555) is still the same proper name used attributively rather than a distinct sense, as the multilingual evidence shows identical roots across all translations. 64×
AR["لاوي","لاوِي","لاَوِي","لَاوِي"]·ben["লেবি","লেবিকে","লেবির","লেবির।","লেবী"]·DE["Levi","Levis"]·EN["Levi"]·FR["Lévi"]·heb["לוי"]·HI["लēवी","लēवी-की","लēवी-के","लेवी","लेवी-का","लेवी-की","लेवी-के"]·ID["Lewi"]·IT["Levi"]·jav["Lèwi","Léwi","Léwi."]·KO["레위","레위라","레위에게","레위의"]·PT["Levi"]·RU["Леви","Левий","Левию","Левия"]·ES["Levi","Leví"]·SW["Lawi","Levi","kumbe","la-Lawi","wa-Lawi","ya-Lawi"]·TR["Levi","Levi'nin","Levi'ye"]·urd["لاوی","لاوی-نے","لاوی-کی","لاوی-کے"]
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† I. לֵוִי n.pr.m. Levi (√ and meaning dubious; Gn 29:34 (J) interpr. as joined, i.e. husband to wife; Nu 18:2, 4 (P; appar. in word-play) of Levites as joined to, attendant upon, Aaron; orig. as attached to, accompanying Isr. from Egypt, LagOr ii. 20 f.; as attached to, attending upon the ark, BauPriest. 74; in this case i. לֵוִי would be derived from ii. לֵוִי in priestly sense; HomA. u. A.…