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Strong's #738: 'ariy (pronounced ar-ee')

or (prolonged) earyeh {ar-yay'}; from 717 (in the sense of violence); a lion:--(young) lion, + pierce (from the margin).




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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'ărı̂y / 'aryêh

1) lion

1a) pictures or images of lions

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: from H717 (in the sense of violence)



Usage:

This word is used 80 times:

Isaiah 31:4: "spoken unto me, Like as the lion and the young lion roaring on his prey,"
Isaiah 35:9: "No lion shall be there, nor any ravenous beast shall go up"
Isaiah 38:13: "I reckoned morning, that, as a lion, so will he break all my bones:"
Isaiah 65:25: "shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust"
Jeremiah 2:30: "hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion."
Jeremiah 4:7: " The lion from his thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way; he is gone forth"
Jeremiah 5:6: "Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings"
Jeremiah 12:8: "Mine heritage unto me as a lion in the forest; it crieth out against me: therefore"
Jeremiah 49:19: "Behold, like a lion from the swelling of Jordan against the habitation"
Jeremiah 50:17: "Israel sheep; the lions have driven him away: first the king of Assyria"
Jeremiah 50:44: "Behold, like a lion from the swelling of Jordan unto the habitation"
Jeremiah 51:38: "like lions: they shall yell as lions' whelps."
Lamentations 3:10: "He lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places."
Ezekiel 1:10: "had the face of a man, and the face of a lion, on the right side: and they four had the face"
Ezekiel 10:14: "of a man, and the third the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle."
Ezekiel 19:2: "A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions."
Ezekiel 19:6: "And he went up and down the lions, he became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey,"
Ezekiel 22:25: "in the midst thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls;"
Hosea 11:10: "the LORD: he shall roar like a lion: when he shall roar, then the children"
Joel 1:6: "number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion."
Amos 3:4: " Will a lion in the forest, when he hath no prey? will a young lion cry"
Amos 3:8: " The lion who will not fear? the Lord GOD hath spoken,"
Amos 3:12: "the shepherd taketh out of the mouth of the lion two legs, or"
Amos 5:19: "did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went"
Micah 5:8: "in the midst of many people as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks"
Nahum 2:11: "Where of the lions, and the feeding place of the young lions, where the lion,"
Nahum 2:11: "and the feeding place of the young lions, where the lion, even the old lion, walked, and the lion's"
Nahum 2:11: "where the lion, even the old lion, walked, and the lion's whelp, and none made them afraid?"
Nahum 2:12: " The lion enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his holes"
Zephaniah 3:3: "Her princes her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones"









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