Strong's #7826: shachal (pronounced shakh'-al)

from an unused root probably meaning to roar; a lion (from his characteristic roar):--(fierce) lion.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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shachal

1) lion

1a) of Jehovah, wicked men (figuratively)

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: from an unused root probably meaning to roar

Usage:

This word is used 7 times:

 

Job 4:10: "The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken."
Job 10:16: "For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou showest thyself marvelous"
Job 28:8: "have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by"
Psalms 91:13: "Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet"
Proverbs 26:13: "The slothful man saith, There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets."
Hosea 5:14: "For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah: I,"
Hosea 13:7: "Therefore I will be unto them as a lion: as a leopard by the way will I observe"