Lion
אַרְיֵהStrong’s H0744aryeh (ar-yeh)
Appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Aryeh is the Aramaic word usually translated “lions the” and “like a lion”. It appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament.
“All the presidents of the kingdom, the governors, and the princes, the counsellors, and the captains, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a firm decree, that whosoever shall ask a petition of any God or man for thirty days, save of thee, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions.”
Meaning
- Lion
How it's translated
- lions the 9
- like a lion 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 9
1 book in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 6:12In contextThen they came near, and spake before the king concerning the king’s decree; Hast thou not signed a decree, that every man that shall ask a petition of any God or man within thirty days, save of thee, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions? The king answered and said, The thing is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not.
- Daniel 6:16In contextThen the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, and cast him into the den of lions. Now the king spake and said unto Daniel, Thy God whom thou servest continually, he will deliver thee.
- Daniel 6:19In contextThen the king arose very early in the morning, and went in haste unto the den of lions.
- Daniel 6:20In contextAnd when he came to the den, he cried with a lamentable voice unto Daniel: and the king spake and said to Daniel, O Daniel, servant of the living God, is thy God, whom thou servest continually, able to deliver thee from the lions?
- Daniel 6:22In contextMy God hath sent his angel, and hath shut the lions’ mouths, that they have not hurt me: forasmuch as before him innocency was found in me; and also before thee, O king, have I done no hurt.
- Daniel 6:24In contextAnd the king commanded, and they brought those men which had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and the lions had the mastery of them, and brake all their bones in pieces or ever they came at the bottom of the den.
Aramaic dictionary
אַרְיֵה aryeh · lion
lion Aramaic of ar.yeh (אַרְיֵה "lion" H0738B)
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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.