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.
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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).