Lion
שַׁ֫חַלStrong’s H7826shachal (sha-chal)
Appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shachal is the Hebrew word usually translated “lion” and “like lion”. It appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament.
“The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.”
Meaning
- Lionof Jehovah, wicked men (fig)
How it's translated
- a lion 5
- like lion 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 3
- Hosea 2
- Psalms 1
- Proverbs 1
4 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Job 10:16For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me.
- Job 28:8The lion’s whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it.
- Psalms 91:13Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.
- Proverbs 26:13The slothful man saith, There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets.
- Hosea 5:14For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah: I, even I, will tear and go away; I will take away, and none shall rescue him.
- Hosea 13:7Therefore I will be unto them as a lion: as a leopard by the way will I observe them:
Hebrew dictionary
שַׁ֫חַל shachal · lion
1) lion 1a) of Jehovah, wicked men (fig)
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.