Genesis 49:9
Judah is a lion's whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?
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Lion
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Revelation 13:2
And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.
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Genesis
21 verses
Numbers
42 verses
Deuteronomy
11 verses
Judges
54 verses
1 Samuel
33 verses
2 Samuel
22 verses
1 Kings
85 verses
1 Chronicles
11 verses
Job
65 verses
Psalms
75 verses
Proverbs
87 verses
Ecclesiastes
11 verses
Isaiah
109 verses
Jeremiah
77 verses
Lamentations
11 verses
Ezekiel
88 verses
Daniel
11 verses
Hosea
54 verses
Joel
21 verses
Amos
54 verses
Micah
21 verses
Nahum
32 verses
2 Timothy
11 verses
1 Peter
11 verses
Revelation
44 verses
Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?
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אֲרִי
ʼărîy · ar-ee'
56 times translated as this KJV form79 total Strong's occurrences
a lion
Strong's KJV usage: (young) lion, pierce (from the margin).
Strong's first: Genesis 49:9Strong's last: Nahum 2:12
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kᵉphîyr · kef-eer'
16 times translated as this KJV form32 total Strong's occurrences
a village (as covered in by walls); also a young lion (perhaps as covered with a mane)
Strong's KJV usage: (young) lion, village. Compare 3723.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Psalms 17:12Strong's last: Micah 5:8
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lâbîyʼ · law-bee'
9 times translated as this KJV form14 total Strong's occurrences
a lion (properly, a lioness as the fiercer (although not a roarer;))
Strong's KJV usage: (great, old, stout) lion, lioness, young (lion).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 49:9Strong's last: Nahum 2:11
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shachal · shakh'-al
7 times translated as this KJV form7 total Strong's occurrences
a lion (from his characteristic roar)
Strong's KJV usage: (fierce) lion.
Strong's first: Job 4:10Strong's last: Hosea 13:7
Open full H7826 profile →λέων
léōn · leh-ohn'
6 times translated as this KJV form9 total Strong's occurrences
a "lion"
Strong's KJV usage: :--lion.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 2 Timothy 4:17Strong's last: Revelation 13:2
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layish · lah'-yish
3 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
a lion (from his destructive blows)
Strong's KJV usage: (old) lion.
Strong's first: Job 4:11Strong's last: Isaiah 30:6
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ʼaryêh · ar-yay'
1 times translated as this KJV form10 total Strong's occurrences
Strong's KJV usage: lion.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Daniel 7:4Strong's last: Daniel 7:4
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H738
And David said unto Saul, Thy servant kept his father's sheep, and there came a lion, and a bear, and took a lamb out of the flock:
H738
Thy servant slew both the lion and the bear: and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, seeing he hath defied the armies of the living God.
H738
David said moreover, The LORD that delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine. And Saul said unto David, Go, and the LORD be with thee.
English meaning and historical usage.
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lion
LI'ON, noun [Latin leo, leonis, Gr.]
1. A quadruped of the genus Felis, very strong, fierce and rapacious. The largest lions are eight or nine feet in length. The male has a thick head, beset with long bushy hair of a yellowish color. The lion is a native of Africa and the warm climates of Asia. His aspect is noble, his gait stately, and his roar tremendous.
2. A sign in the zodiac.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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