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# אַרְיֵה

Biblical Hebrew

**lion** — used 45 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

lion [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b7_5e8_5b0_5d9_5b5_5d4/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אַרְיֵה: n.m. lion [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b7_5e8_5b0_5d9_5b5_5d4/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Am 3:8 lion (𝔗 id. Syriac ܐܰܪܝܳܐ, cf. also אֲרִי supr.)—only sg. as above Am 3:4 + 44 times + 2 S 23:20 Kt (Qr אֲרִי) La 3:10 (id.);—lion, lit. in narrative Ju 14:8(×2), 9; 2 S 23:20; 1 K 13:24(×2), 25, 26, 28 (c. עמדים text error according to Klo) 28; 20:36(×2) cf. Is 11:7; 35:9; 65:25; in simile Gn 49:9; 2 S 17:10; ψ 7:3; 10:9; 17:12; 22:14; Is 21:8; 31:4 Je 2:30; 12:8; 49:19; 50:44; La 3:10; (Kt) Ez 1:10; 10:14; 1 Ch 12:8; Ho 11:10; Jo 1:6; Mi 5:7, cf. Am 3:4, 8 Ec 9:4; metaph. Gn 49:9; Dt 33:22; Jb 4:10; ψ 22:22 Is 15:9; Je 4:7; 5:6; Na 2:12(×2), 13.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 38 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (9 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (9 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a lion (19); lion (13); of a lion (8).

## In the verses

[Job 4:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.4.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.4.10/#tree)

שַׁאֲגַ֣ת אַ֭רְיֵה וְק֣וֹל שָׁ֑חַל וְשִׁנֵּ֖י כְפִירִ֣ים נִתָּֽעוּ׃

*Word for word:* \[the\].roaring of.a.lion and.\[the\] sound of.a.lion and.\[the\] teeth of.young.lions they.are.broken.out

*JPS 1917:* The lion roareth, and the fierce lion howleth — yet the teeth of the young lions are broken.

[Psalms 22:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.22.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.22.14/#tree)

פָּצ֣וּ עָלַ֣י פִּיהֶ֑ם אַ֝רְיֵ֗ה טֹרֵ֥ף וְשֹׁאֵֽג׃

*Word for word:* they.have.opened on me mouth their a.lion tearing and roaring

*JPS 1917:* They open wide their mouth against me, as a ravening and a roaring lion.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5d0_5b7_5e8_5b0_5d9_5b5_5d4.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b7_5e8_5b0_5d9_5b5_5d4/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).