Lion
אֲרִיStrong’s H0738ari (a-ri)
Appears in 72 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Ari is the Hebrew word usually translated “lion”, “lions” and “like a lion”. It appears in 72 verses of the Old Testament.
“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?”
Meaning
- Lionpictures or images of lions
- Lionpictures or images of lions
How it's translated
- a lion 21
- lions 16
- the lion 15
- like a lion 13
- lion 5
- and the lion 2
- and lion 2
- and like a lion 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Kings 9
- Jeremiah 8
- Isaiah 7
- Psalms 6
- Ezekiel 5
- Judges 4
25 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Numbers 23:24Behold, the people shall rise up as a great lion, and lift up himself as a young lion: he shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, and drink the blood of the slain.
- Numbers 24:9He couched, he lay down as a lion, and as a great lion: who shall stir him up? Blessed is he that blesseth thee, and cursed is he that curseth thee.
- Deuteronomy 33:22And of Dan he said, Dan is a lion’s whelp: he shall leap from Bashan.
- Judges 14:5Then went Samson down, and his father and his mother, to Timnath, and came to the vineyards of Timnath: and, behold, a young lion roared against him.
- Judges 14:8And after a time he returned to take her, and he turned aside to see the carcase of the lion: and, behold, there was a swarm of bees and honey in the carcase of the lion.
- Judges 14:9And he took thereof in his hands, and went on eating, and came to his father and mother, and he gave them, and they did eat: but he told not them that he had taken the honey out of the carcase of the lion.
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Hebrew dictionary
אֲרִי ari · lion
1) lion 1a) pictures or images of lions
אַרְיֵה aryeh · lion
1) lion 1a) pictures or images of lions Aramaic equivalent: ar.yeh (אַרְיֵה "lion" H0744)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “lion” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
LI'ON, noun
[Latin leo, leonis, Gr.]
- A quadruped of the genus Felis, very strong, fierce and rapacious.
- A sign in the zodiac.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.