Prey
טֶ֫רֶףStrong’s H2964tereph (te-reph)
Appears in 22 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tereph is the Hebrew word usually translated “prey”, “food” and “from prey”. It appears in 22 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
- Prey, food, leafprey · food · leaf
How it's translated
- prey 13
- food 3
- from prey 1
- for food 1
- for the prey 1
- prey its 1
- and prey 1
- prey your 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 4
- Psalms 4
- Ezekiel 4
- Nahum 3
- Isaiah 2
- Genesis 1
10 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.
- Job 4:11The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion’s whelps are scattered abroad.
- Job 24:5Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.
- Job 29:17And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.
- Job 38:39Wilt thou hunt the prey for the lion? or fill the appetite of the young lions,
- Psalms 76:4Thou art more glorious and excellent than the mountains of prey.
Hebrew dictionary
טֶ֫רֶף tereph · prey
1) prey, food, leaf 1a) prey 1b) food 1c) leaf
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “prey” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PREY, noun
[Latin proeda.]
- Spoil; booty; plunder; goods taken by force from an enemy in war.“And they brought the captives and the prey and the spoil to Moses and Eleazar the priest” Numbers 31:12“They [Judah] shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies” 2 Kings 21:14
- That which is seized or may be seized by violence to be devoured; ravine.“The old lion perisheth for lack of prey” Job 4:11
- Ravage; depredation.
All definitions and other forms of “prey”
PREY, verb intransitive
To prey on or upon, is to rob; to plunder; to pillage.
- To feed by violence, or to seize and devour.
- To corrode; to waste gradually; to cause to pine away.
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.