כְּפִיר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3715

young lion — used 31 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

young lion tree →

Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כְּפִיר: n.m. young lion tree →

The whole BDB entry

n.m. young lion;—כ׳ Ju 14:5 + 16 times; pl. כְּפִרִים Je 2:15 + 3 times; כְּפִירִים Zc 11:3 + 7 times; sf. כְּפִירַיִךְ Na 2:14; כְּפִירֶיהָ Ez 38:13 (Co reads כנעניה);—lit. כ׳ אֲרָיוֹת Ju 14:5 young lion of lions; Am 3:4 ψ 17:12. It differs from whelp גּוּר Ez 19:2, 3 as old enough to hunt its prey, Je 25:38; Is 11:6; Zc 11:3; ψ 104:21; in sim. of roar of hostile army Is 5:29 (‖ לָבִיא) cf. Je 51:38 (‖ גּוֹרֵי אריות); sim. of י׳’s invincible might Is 31:4 (‖ אַרְיֵה); of Isr. among the nations, Mi 5:7; of Assyrian princes Na 2:12; of prince of Isr. Ez 19:5, 6; other cases are: ‖ לָבִיא Jb 38:39; ‖ שַׁחַל Ho 5:14 ψ 91:13 Jb 4:10; of bloodthirsty enemies ψ 34:11; 35:17; 58:7 Je 2:15; כ׳ גוים Ez 32:2, of young warriors Na 2:14; Ez 38:13 (?; v. Co supr.); righteous compared with, Pr 28:1; king’s wrath like roaring of, Pr 19:12; 20:2; of one of faces of cherubim Ez 41:19.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 31 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (15 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (11 candidates)

Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a young lion (10); lion (5); lions (5).

In the verses

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.

Job 38:39 · tree →

הֲתָצ֣וּד לְלָבִ֣יא טָ֑רֶף וְחַיַּ֖ת כְּפִירִ֣ים תְּמַלֵּֽא׃

Word for word: will you.hunt? for a.lion prey and.[the] life of.young.lions will.you.fill?

JPS 1917: Wilt thou hunt the prey for the lioness? Or satisfy the appetite of the young lions,

On Mova

Trees and pragmatics of its meanings: 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).

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