Lion
לְבִיStrong’s H3833levi (le-vi)
Appears in 14 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Levi is the Hebrew word usually translated “like a lion”, “lioness” and “lion”. It appears in 14 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
- Lion
- Lioness
How it's translated
- like a lion 3
- and like a lion 2
- lioness 2
- a lioness 2
- a lion 1
- for a lion 1
- lions 1
- like lion 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Numbers 2
- Job 2
- Isaiah 2
- Nahum 2
- Genesis 1
- Deuteronomy 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.
- 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 33:20And of Gad he said, Blessed be he that enlargeth Gad: he dwelleth as a lion, and teareth the arm with the crown of the head.
- Job 4:11The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion’s whelps are scattered abroad.
- Job 38:39Wilt thou hunt the prey for the lion? or fill the appetite of the young lions,
- Psalms 57:4My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
Hebrew dictionary
לְבִי levi · lion
lion
לְבִיָּא leviyya · lioness
lioness Another spelling of la.vi (לָבִיא "lion" H3833C)
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.