Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
lion
Usage: young lion
kphiyr - meaning, definition, and linked Bible usage across the indexed canon, including Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where this Strong's number appears.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G3715 — orexis (“lust”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H3715 כְּפִיר (kphiyr) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. kphiyr (kef-eer') n-m. 1. a village (as covered in by walls) 2. also a young lion (perhaps as covered with a mane) It has 32 linked Bible usages across 13 books. Visible English usage signals include young, lion, lions, and also. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
kphiyr (kef-eer') n-m. 1. a village (as covered in by walls) 2. also a young lion (perhaps as covered with a mane) [from H3722] KJV: (young) lion, village. Root(s): H3722 Compare: H3723
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lion
Usage: young lion
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render kphiyr, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
32 indexed usages in Old Testament.
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.
That Sanballat and Geshem sent unto me, saying, Come, let us meet together in some one of the villages in the plain of Ono. But they thought to do me mischief.
The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.
First 32 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H3715.
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.
That Sanballat and Geshem sent unto me, saying, Come, let us meet together in some one of the villages in the plain of Ono. But they thought to do me mischief.
The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.
Wilt thou hunt the prey for the lion? or fill the appetite of the young lions,
Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good thing.
Lord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions.
Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.
Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.
The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat from God.
The king's wrath is as the roaring of a lion; but his favour is as dew upon the grass.
The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whoso provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul.
The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion.
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.
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.
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.
The young lions roared upon him, and yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant.
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.
They shall roar together like lions: they shall yell as lions' whelps.
And say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.
And she brought up one of her whelps: it became a young lion, and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men.
Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her whelps, and made him a young lion.
And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey, and devoured men.
Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him, Thou art like a young lion of the nations, and thou art as a whale in the seas: and thou camest forth with thy rivers, and troubledst the waters with thy feet, and fouledst their rivers.
Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions thereof, shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil?
So that the face of a man was toward the palm tree on the one side, and the face of a young lion toward the palm tree on the other side: it was made through all the house round about.
For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah: I, even I, will tear and go away; I will take away, and none shall rescue him.
Will 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?
And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many people as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep: who, if he go through, both treadeth down, and teareth in pieces, and none can deliver.
Where is the dwelling of the lions, and the feedingplace of the young lions, where the lion, even the old lion, walked, and the lion's whelp, and none made them afraid?
Behold, I am against thee, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword shall devour thy young lions: and I will cut off thy prey from the earth, and the voice of thy messengers shall no more be heard.
There is a voice of the howling of the shepherds; for their glory is spoiled: a voice of the roaring of young lions; for the pride of Jordan is spoiled.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H3715, grouped by book.
Strong's H3715 is a Hebrew entry for H3715 כְּפִיר (kphiyr). kphiyr (kef-eer') n-m. 1. a village (as covered in by walls) 2. also a young lion (perhaps as covered with a mane)
This page currently indexes 32 linked usages for Strong's H3715 across 13 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H3715 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as young, lion, lions, and also. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.