H3715 כְּפִיר
Strong's Hebrew Concordance · 32 KJV occurrences
כְּפִיר
kᵉphîyr · kef-eer'
Definition
a village (as covered in by walls); also a young lion (perhaps as covered with a mane)
KJV Renderings
(young) lion, village. Compare H3723 (כָּפָר).
Derivation / Etymology
from H3722 (כָּפַר);
Sample KJV Verses (8 of 32)
- Judges 14:5¶ Then went Samson down, and his father and his mother, to Timnath, and came to the vineyards of Timnath: and, behold, a young lion roared against him.
- Psalms 17:12Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
- Psalms 91:13Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.
- Proverbs 28:1The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion.
- Jeremiah 2:15The young lions roared upon him, and yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant.
- Ezekiel 19:3And she brought up one of her whelps: it became a young lion, and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men.
- Ezekiel 38:13Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions thereof, shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil?
- 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 sheep: who, if he go through, both treadeth down, and teareth in pieces, and none can deliver.