Kephir כְּפִיר

Kephir (Hebrew כְּפִיר, Strong's H3715) is a Hebrew masculine noun meaning “lion”. It occurs 32 times in 32 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

H3715A: lion

H3715B: Hakkephirim

H3715M: villages

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

Translated as

Verses

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

Judges

• 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.Then Samson went down to Timnah with his father and mother and came to the vineyards of Timnah. Suddenly a young lion came roaring at him,

Nehemiah

• Nehemiah 6:2
  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.Sanballat and Geshem sent me this message: “Come, let us meet together in one of the villages on the plain of Ono.” But they were planning to harm me.

Job

• Job 4:10
  The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.The lion may roar, and the fierce lion may growl, yet the teeth of the young lions are broken.
• 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

Psalms

• Psalm 17:12
  Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.like a lion greedy for prey, like a young lion lurking in ambush.
• Psalm 34:10
  The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good thing.Young lions go lacking and hungry, but those who seek the LORD lack no good thing.
• Psalm 35:17
  Lord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions.How long, O Lord, will You look on? Rescue my soul from their ravages, my precious life from these lions.
• Psalm 58:6
  Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.O God, shatter their teeth in their mouths; O LORD, tear out the fangs of the lions.
• Psalm 91:13
  Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.You will tread on the lion and cobra; you will trample the young lion and serpent.
• 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.

Proverbs

• Proverbs 19:12
  The king’s wrath is as the roaring of a lion; but his favour is as dew upon the grass.A king’s rage is like the roar of a lion, but his favor is like dew on the grass.
• 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.The terror of a king is like the roar of a lion; whoever provokes him forfeits his own life.
• Proverbs 28:1
  The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion.The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are as bold as a lion.

Isaiah

• 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 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.The wolf will live with the lamb, and the leopard will lie down with the goat; the calf and young lion and fatling will be together, and a little child will lead them.
• 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.

Jeremiah

• Jeremiah 2:15
  The young lions roared upon him, and yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant.The young lions have roared at him; they have growled with a loud voice. They have laid waste his land; his cities lie in ruins, without inhabitant.
• 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.He has left His den like a lion, for their land has been made a desolation by the sword of the oppressor, and because of the fierce anger of the LORD.
• Jeremiah 51:38
  They shall roar together like lions: they shall yell as lions’ whelps.They will roar together like young lions; they will growl like lion cubs.

Ezekiel

• Ezekiel 19:2
  And say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.and say: ‘What was your mother? A lioness among the lions! She lay down among the young lions; she reared her cubs.
• 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 19:5
  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.When she saw that she had waited in vain, that her hope was lost, she took another of her cubs and made him a young lion.
• 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 32:2
  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.“Son of man, take up a lament for Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him: ‘You are like a lion among the nations; you are like a monster in the seas. You thrash about in your rivers, churning up the waters with your feet and muddying the streams.’
• Ezekiel 38:13
  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?Sheba and Dedan and the merchants of Tarshish with all its villages will ask, ‘Have you come to capture the plunder? Have you assembled your hordes to carry away loot, to make off with silver and gold, to take cattle and goods, to seize great spoil?’
• Ezekiel 41:19
  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.the face of a man was toward the palm tree on one side, and the face of a young lion was toward the palm tree on the other side. They were carved all the way around the temple.

Hosea

• Hosea 5:14
  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.For I am like a lion to Ephraim and like a young lion to the house of Judah. I, even I, will tear them to pieces and then go away. I will carry them off where no one can rescue them.

Amos

• 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?

Micah

• Micah 5:8
  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.Then the remnant of Jacob will be among the nations, in the midst of many peoples, like a lion among the beasts of the forest, like a young lion among flocks of sheep, which tramples and tears as it passes through, with no one to rescue them.

Nahum

• Nahum 2:11
  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?Where is the lions’ lair or the feeding ground of the young lions, where the lion and lioness prowled with their cubs, with nothing to frighten them away?
• 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.”

Zechariah

• Zechariah 11:3
  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.Listen to the wailing of the shepherds, for their glory is in ruins. Listen to the roaring of the young lions, for the thickets of the Jordan are destroyed.

Notes

1. 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.
2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).