Strong H738H738Bאַרְיֵה

lion

One of the 2 senses of Strong H738

Transliteration: 'ărîy 'aryêh
Pronunciation: {ar-ee'} ar-yay'
Morphology: Hebrew Noun (Masculine)

Definition

1) lion
1a) pictures or images of lions
Aramaic equivalent: ar.yeh (אַרְיֵה "lion" H744)

General definition

From H717 (in the sense of violence); a lion: - (young) {lion} + pierce [from the margin].

In the Bible

Strong H738B appears in 39 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

lion38
pierce1

First verses

Genesis 49:9
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?
Deuteronomy 33:22
And of Dan he said, Dan is a lion’s whelp: he shall leap from Bashan.
Judges 14:8
And after a time he returned to take her, and he turned aside to see the carcase of the lion: and, behold, there was a swarm of bees and honey in the carcase of the lion.
Judges 14:9
And he took thereof in his hands, and went on eating, and came to his father and mother, and he gave them, and they did eat: but he told not them that he had taken the honey out of the carcase of the lion.
2 Samuel 17:10
And he also that is valiant, whose heart is as the heart of a lion, shall utterly melt: for all Israel knoweth that thy father is a mighty man, and they which be with him are valiant men.
1 Kings 13:24
And when he was gone, a lion met him by the way, and slew him: and his carcase was cast in the way, and the ass stood by it, the lion also stood by the carcase.
1 Kings 13:25
And, behold, men passed by, and saw the carcase cast in the way, and the lion standing by the carcase: and they came and told it in the city where the old prophet dwelt.
1 Kings 13:26
And when the prophet that brought him back from the way heard thereof, he said, It is the man of God, who was disobedient unto the word of the Lord: therefore the Lord hath delivered him unto the lion, which hath torn him, and slain him, according to the word of the Lord, which he spake unto him.
1 Kings 13:28
And he went and found his carcase cast in the way, and the ass and the lion standing by the carcase: the lion had not eaten the carcase, nor torn the ass.
1 Kings 20:36
Then said he unto him, Because thou hast not obeyed the voice of the Lord, behold, as soon as thou art departed from me, a lion shall slay thee. And as soon as he was departed from him, a lion found him, and slew him.
1 Chronicles 12:8
And of the Gadites there separated themselves unto David into the hold to the wilderness men of might, and men of war fit for the battle, that could handle shield and buckler, whose faces were like the faces of lions, and were as swift as the roes upon the mountains;
Job 4:10
The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.
Psalms 7:2
Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.
Psalms 10:9
He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.
Psalms 17:12
Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
Psalms 22:13
They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.
Psalms 22:16
For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.
Psalms 22:21
Save me from the lion’s mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns.
Ecclesiastes 9:4
For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.
Isaiah 11:7
And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.