Tereph טֶ֫רֶף

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Tereph (Hebrew טֶ֫רֶף, Strong's H2964) is a Hebrew masculine noun meaning “prey”. It occurs 22 times in 22 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

1) prey, food, leaf
1a) prey
1b) food
1c) leaf

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

KJV	prey (18), meat (3), spoil (1), leaves (1)
BSB	prey (9), their prey (4), food (4), its prey (2), filled with game (1), kill (1), your prey (1)

Every verse with Tereph, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Genesis 49:9
Judah 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?Judah is a young lion— my son, you return from the prey. Like a lion he crouches and lies down; like a lioness, who dares to rouse him?

Numbers 23:24
Behold, 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.Behold, the people rise like a lioness; they rouse themselves like a lion, not resting until they devour their prey and drink the blood of the slain.”

Job 4:11
The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion’s whelps are scattered abroad.The old lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.
Job 24:5
Behold, 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.Indeed, like wild donkeys in the desert, the poor go to work foraging for food; the wasteland is food for their children.
Job 29:17
And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.I shattered the fangs of the unjust and snatched the prey from his teeth.
Job 38:39
Wilt thou hunt the prey for the lion? or fill the appetite of the young lions,Can you hunt the prey for a lioness or satisfy the hunger of young lions

Psalm 76:4
Thou art more glorious and excellent than the mountains of prey.You are resplendent with light, more majestic than mountains filled with game.
Psalm 104:21
The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat from God.The young lions roar for their prey and seek their food from God.
Psalm 111:5
He hath given meat unto them that fear him: he will ever be mindful of his covenant.He provides food for those who fear Him; He remembers His covenant forever.
Psalm 124:6
Blessed be the LORD, who hath not given us as a prey to their teeth.Blessed be the LORD, who has not given us as prey to their teeth.

Proverbs 31:15
She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens.She rises while it is still night to provide food for her household and portions for her maidservants.

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.Their roaring is like that of a lion; they roar like young lions. They growl and seize their prey; they carry it away from deliverance.
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.For this is what the LORD has said to me: “Like a lion roaring or a young lion over its prey— and though a band of shepherds is called out against it, it is not terrified by their shouting or subdued by their clamor— so the LORD of Hosts will come down to do battle on Mount Zion and its heights.

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.She brought up one of her cubs, and he became a young lion. After learning to tear his prey, he devoured men.
Ezekiel 19:6
And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey, and devoured men.He prowled among the lions, and became a young lion. After learning to tear his prey, he devoured men.
Ezekiel 22:25
There 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.The conspiracy of the princes in her midst is like a roaring lion tearing its prey. They devour the people, seize the treasures and precious things, and multiply the widows within her.
Ezekiel 22:27
Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.Her officials within her are like wolves tearing their prey, shedding blood, and destroying lives for dishonest gain.

Amos 3:4
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?Does a lion roar in the forest when he has no prey? Does a young lion growl in his den if he has caught nothing?

Nahum 2:12
The 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.The lion mauled enough for its cubs and strangled prey for the lioness. It filled its dens with the kill, and its lairs with mauled prey.
Nahum 2:13
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.“Behold, I am against you,” declares the LORD of Hosts. “I will send your chariots up in smoke, and the sword will devour your young lions. I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the voices of your messengers will no longer be heard.”
Nahum 3:1
Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; the prey departeth not;Woe to the city of blood, full of lies, full of plunder, never without prey.

Malachi 3:10
Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My house. Test Me in this,” says the LORD of Hosts. “See if I will not open the windows of heaven and pour out for you blessing without measure.

Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).