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Strong H3715H3715Aכְּפִיר

lion

One of the 3 senses of Strong H3715

Transliteration
kephîyr
Pronunciation
kef-eer'
Morphology
Hebrew Noun (Masculine)

Definition

From H3722; a village (as covered in by walls); also a young lion (perhaps as covered with a mane): - (young) {lion} village. Compare H3723 .

Detailed definition

young lion

In the Bible

Strong H3715A appears in 31 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • lion28
  • become2
  • young1

First verses

  1. Judges 14:5
    Then 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.
  2. Job 4:10
    The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.
  3. Job 38:39
    Wilt thou hunt the prey for the lion? or fill the appetite of the young lions,
  4. Psalms 17:12
    Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
  5. Psalms 34:10
    The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing.
  6. Psalms 35:17
    Lord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions.
  7. Psalms 58:6
    Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O Lord.
  8. Psalms 91:13
    Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.
  9. Psalms 104:21
    The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat from God.
  10. Proverbs 19:12
    The king’s wrath is as the roaring of a lion; but his favour is as dew upon the grass.
  11. Proverbs 20:2
    The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whoso provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul.
  12. Proverbs 28:1
    The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion.
  13. Isaiah 5:29
    Their 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.
  14. Isaiah 11:6
    The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.
  15. Isaiah 31:4
    For 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.
  16. Jeremiah 2:15
    The young lions roared upon him, and yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant.
  17. Jeremiah 25:38
    He hath forsaken his covert, as the lion: for their land is desolate because of the fierceness of the oppressor, and because of his fierce anger.
  18. Jeremiah 51:38
    They shall roar together like lions: they shall yell as lions’ whelps.
  19. Ezekiel 19:2
    And say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.
  20. Ezekiel 19:3
    And she brought up one of her whelps: it became a young lion, and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men.
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