אֲרִיʼărîy
lion (Proverbs 28:15; Amos 3:12; 2 Samuel 23:20; Lamentations 3:10; Psalms 22:17)
Pronunciation: ar-ee' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H738
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 80 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 49:9 Judah, my son, is a young lion that has finished eating its prey. Like a lion he crouches and lies down; like a lioness—who dares to rouse him?
- Numbers 23:24 These people rise up like a lioness, like a majestic lion rousing itself. They refuse to rest until they have feasted on prey, drinking the blood of the slaughtered!”
- Numbers 24:9 Like a lion, Israel crouches and lies down; like a lioness, who dares to arouse her? Blessed is everyone who blesses you, O Israel, and cursed is everyone who curses you.”
- Deuteronomy 33:22 Moses said this about the tribe of Dan: “Dan is a lion’s cub, leaping out from Bashan.”
- Judges 14:5 As Samson and his parents were going down to Timnah, a young lion suddenly attacked Samson near the vineyards of Timnah.
- Judges 14:8 Later, when he returned to Timnah for the wedding, he turned off the path to look at the carcass of the lion. And he found that a swarm of bees had made some honey in the carcass.
See every passage
- Genesis 49:9
- Numbers 23:24, 24:9
- Deuteronomy 33:22
- Judges 14:5, 14:8, 14:9, 14:18
- 1 Samuel 17:34, 17:36, 17:37
- 2 Samuel 1:23, 17:10, 23:20
- 1 Kings 7:29, 7:36, 10:19, 10:20, 13:24, 13:25, 13:26, 13:28, 20:36
- 2 Kings 17:25, 17:26
- 1 Chronicles 11:22, 12:8
- 2 Chronicles 9:18, 9:19
- Job 4:10
- Psalms 7:2, 10:9, 17:12, 22:13, 22:16, 22:21
- Proverbs 22:13, 26:13, 28:15
- Ecclesiastes 9:4
- Song of Solomon 4:8
- Isaiah 11:7, 15:9, 21:8, 31:4, 35:9, 38:13, 65:25
- Jeremiah 2:30, 4:7, 5:6, 12:8, 49:19, 50:17, 50:44, 51:38
- Lamentations 3:10
- Ezekiel 1:10, 10:14, 19:2, 19:6, 22:25
- Hosea 11:10
- Joel 1:6
- Amos 3:4, 3:8, 3:12, 5:19
- Micah 5:8
- Nahum 2:11, 2:12
- Zephaniah 3:3
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).