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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H3833
Their roaring shall be like a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and shall carry it away safe, and none shall deliver it.
H3715
The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.
H738
And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
H738
And he cried, A lion: My lord, I stand continually upon the watchtower in the daytime, and I am set in my ward whole nights:
H3918
The burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the young and old lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people that shall not profit them.
H738
For thus hath the LORD spoken unto me, Like as the lion and the young lion roaring on his prey, when a multitude of shepherds is called forth against him, he will not be afraid of their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them: so shall the LORD of hosts come down to fight for mount Zion, and for the hill thereof.
H3715
For thus hath the LORD spoken unto me, Like as the lion and the young lion roaring on his prey, when a multitude of shepherds is called forth against him, he will not be afraid of their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them: so shall the LORD of hosts come down to fight for mount Zion, and for the hill thereof.
H738
No lion shall be there, nor any ravenous beast shall go up thereon, it shall not be found there; but the redeemed shall walk there:
H738
I reckoned till morning, that, as a lion, so will he break all my bones: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
H738
The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent's meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the LORD.
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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