Wolf
זְאֵבStrong’s H2061zeev (ze-ev)
Appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Zeev is the Hebrew word usually translated “wolf”, “wolf of” and “like wolves”. It appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament.
“Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil.”
Meaning
- Wolf
How it's translated
- wolf 2
- a wolf 1
- a wolf of 1
- like wolves 1
- more than wolves of 1
- wolves of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 2
- Genesis 1
- Jeremiah 1
- Ezekiel 1
- Habakkuk 1
- Zephaniah 1
6 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Isaiah 11:6The 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.
- Isaiah 65:25The 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.
- Jeremiah 5:6Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings are increased.
- Ezekiel 22:27Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.
- Habakkuk 1:8Their horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves: and their horsemen shall spread themselves, and their horsemen shall come from far; they shall fly as the eagle that hasteth to eat.
- Zephaniah 3:3Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow.
Hebrew dictionary
זְאֵב zeev · wolf
wolf
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “wolf” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
WOLF, noun
WULF. [G., Gr.]
- An animal of the genus Canis, a beast of prey that kills sheep and other small domestic animals; called sometimes the wild dog.
- A small white worm or maggot, which infests granaries.
- An eating ulcer.
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.