Strong H2964טֶ֫רֶף
prey
- Transliteration
- ţereph
- Pronunciation
- teh'-ref
- Morphology
- Hebrew Noun (Masculine)
Definition
From H2963; something {torn} that {is} a {fragment} for example a fresh {leaf} {prey } food: - {leaf} {meat} {prey} spoil.
Detailed definition
1) prey, food, leaf
1a) prey
1b) food
1c) leaf
1a) prey
1b) food
1c) leaf
In the Bible
Strong H2964 appears in 23 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- prey18
- meat3
- leaf1
- spoil1
First verses
- Genesis 49:9Judah 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?
- 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.
- Psalms 104:21The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat from God.
- Psalms 111:5He hath given meat unto them that fear him: he will ever be mindful of his covenant.
- Psalms 124:6Blessed be the Lord, who hath not given us as a prey to their teeth.
- Proverbs 31:15She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens.
- Isaiah 5:29Their roaring shall be like a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and shall carry it away safe, and none shall deliver it.
- Isaiah 31:4For thus hath the Lord spoken unto me, Like as the lion and the young lion roaring on his prey, when a multitude of shepherds is called forth against him, he will not be afraid of their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them: so shall the Lord of hosts come down to fight for mount Zion, and for the hill thereof.
- Ezekiel 17:9Say thou, Thus saith the Lord God; Shall it prosper? shall he not pull up the roots thereof, and cut off the fruit thereof, that it wither? it shall wither in all the leaves of her spring, even without great power or many people to pluck it up by the roots thereof.
- Ezekiel 19:3And she brought up one of her whelps: it became a young lion, and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men.
- Ezekiel 19:6And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey, and devoured men.
- Ezekiel 22:25There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; they have taken the treasure and precious things; they have made her many widows in the midst thereof.
- Ezekiel 22:27Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.
- Amos 3:4Will a lion roar in the forest, when he hath no prey? will a young lion cry out of his den, if he have taken nothing?
- Nahum 2:12The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his holes with prey, and his dens with ravin.