אַרְיֵה aryeh

Hebrew word for “lion” · Strong’s H738 · used 80 times in 72 verses

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Meaning

1) lion; 1a) pictures or images of lions; Aramaic equivalent: ar.yeh (אַרְיֵה "lion" H0744)

Senses in the lexicon

• lion (46)
• lion (34)

How it is translated

Glosses given for aryeh in context, with how often each is used:

• lion 46
• lions 16
• like a lion 14
• more than a lion 1
• more than lions 1
• like lion 1
• which lions 1

Where it is used

Also in 13 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Judges 14 (4), 1 Kings 13 (4), 1 Samuel 17 (3), Psalms 22 (3), Amos 3 (3), 1 Kings 7 (2), 1 Kings 10 (2), 2 Kings 17 (2), 2 Chronicles 9 (2), Jeremiah 50 (2)

Forms

• אריה 20
• אריות 13
• כאריה 10
• האריה 10
• הארי 7
• כארי 4
• ארי 4
• והאריה 2
• ואריה 2
• האריות 2

Words used with it

Words that share verses with aryeh more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• כְּפִיר kephir “lion” 10
• שָׁאַג shaag “to roar” 8
• טָרַף taraph “to tear” 8
• דֹּב dov “bear” 7
• לָבִיא lavi “lion” 7
• טֶרֶף tereph “prey” 7
• עָמַד amad “to stand” 10
• אֵצֶל etsel “beside” 6
• רָעָה raah “to pasture” 7
• גּוּר gur “whelp” 4
• אָכַל akhal “to eat” 9
• זֶה zeh “this” 9

Key verses

The verses using aryeh that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• 1 Samuel 17:36 — Thy servant slew both the lion and the bear: and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, seeing he hath defied the armies of the living God.
• Psalms 10:9 — He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.
• Psalms 22:16 — For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.
• Jeremiah 2:30 — In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
• Jeremiah 4:7 — The lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way; he is gone forth from his place to make thy land desolate; and thy…
• Jeremiah 5:6 — Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: every one that goeth…
• Jeremiah 49:19 — Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan against the habitation of the strong: but I will suddenly make him run away from her: and who…
• Jeremiah 50:17 — Israel is a scattered sheep; the lions have driven him away: first the king of Assyria hath devoured him; and last this Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath…
• Ezekiel 22:25 — There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; they have taken the treasure and…
• Hosea 11:10 — They shall walk after the LORD: he shall roar like a lion: when he shall roar, then the children shall tremble from the west.
• Micah 5:8 — And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many people as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of…
• Zephaniah 3:3 — Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow.

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.