Lion
כְּפִירStrong’s H3715kephir (ke-phir)
Appears in 32 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Kephir is the Hebrew word usually translated “young lions”, “young lion” and “like young lion”. It appears in 32 verses of the Old Testament.
“There is a voice of the howling of the shepherds; for their glory is spoiled: a voice of the roaring of young lions; for the pride of Jordan is spoiled.”
Meaning
- Young lion
- Village
How it's translated
- young lions 7
- a young lion 6
- like young lion 3
- a young lion of 2
- like a young lion 2
- like young lions 2
- at kephirim 1
- and like a young lion 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 7
- Psalms 6
- Proverbs 3
- Isaiah 3
- Jeremiah 3
- Job 2
13 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- 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.
- Nehemiah 6:2That Sanballat and Geshem sent unto me, saying, Come, let us meet together in some one of the villages in the plain of Ono. But they thought to do me mischief.
- Job 4:10The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.
- Job 38:39Wilt thou hunt the prey for the lion? or fill the appetite of the young lions,
- Psalms 17:12Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
- Psalms 34:10The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good thing.
Hebrew dictionary
כְּפִיר kephir · lion
young lion
כְּפִירִים kephirim · Hakkephirim
village Another name of o.no (אוֹנוֹ "Ono" H0207)
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.