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# שַׁחַל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7826

**lion** — used 7 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/1513/7826/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שַׁ֫חַל: n.m. lion [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7826/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. lion (poet.);—abs. שׁ׳ Ho 5:14 +, שָׁ֑חַל Jb 4:10 +;—lion, sim. of י׳, toward Israel Ho 5:14 (‖ כְּפִיר), 13:7 (‖ נָמֵר); of guilty men Jb 4:10 (‖ אַרְיֵה, כְּפִירִים); fig. of foes ψ 91:13 (‖ כְּפִיר); lion, as hunted Jb 10:16 (in sim.); lit. 28:8; Pr 26:13

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a lion (4); like (the) lion (1); lion (1).

## 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 91:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.91.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.91.13/#tree)

עַל־שַׁ֣חַל וָפֶ֣תֶן תִּדְרֹ֑ךְ תִּרְמֹ֖ס כְּפִ֣יר וְתַנִּֽין׃

*Word for word:* on a.lion and a.cobra you.will.tread you.will.trample a.young.lion and a.serpent

*JPS 1917:* Thou shalt tread upon the lion and asp; the young lion and the serpent shalt thou trample under feet.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7826.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7826/): 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).