2 Samuel 1:23
Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided: they were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions.
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Lions
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Revelation 9:17
And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.
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אֲרִי
ʼărîy · ar-ee'
19 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: 2 Samuel 1:23Strong's last: Zephaniah 3:3
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kᵉphîyr · kef-eer'
14 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: Job 4:10Strong's last: Zechariah 11:3
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ʼaryêh · ar-yay'
9 times translated as this KJV form10 total Strong's occurrences
Strong's KJV usage: lion.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Daniel 6:7Strong's last: Daniel 6:27
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léōn · leh-ohn'
3 times translated as this KJV form9 total Strong's occurrences
a "lion"
Strong's KJV usage: :--lion.
Strong's first: Hebrews 11:33Strong's last: Revelation 9:17
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lâbîyʼ · law-bee'
1 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: Psalms 57:4Strong's last: Psalms 57:4
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H738
And so it was at the beginning of their dwelling there, that they feared not the LORD: therefore the LORD sent lions among them, which slew some of them.
H738
Wherefore they spake to the king of Assyria, saying, The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner of the God of the land: therefore he hath sent lions among them, and, behold, they slay them, because they know not the manner of the God of the land.
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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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