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Lexicon :: Strong's H3715 - kᵊp̄îr

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כְּפִיר
Transliteration
kᵊp̄îr
Pronunciation
kef-eer'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 1025a,1025d

Strong’s Definitions

כְּפִיר kᵉphîyr, kef-eer'; from H3722; a village (as covered in by walls); also a young lion (perhaps as covered with a mane):—(young) lion, village. Compare H3723.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 32x

The KJV translates Strong's H3715 in the following manner: lion (30x), villages (1x), young (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 32x
The KJV translates Strong's H3715 in the following manner: lion (30x), villages (1x), young (1x).

  1. young lion

  2. village

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
כְּפִיר kᵉphîyr, kef-eer'; from H3722; a village (as covered in by walls); also a young lion (perhaps as covered with a mane):—(young) lion, village. Compare H3723.
STRONGS H3715: Abbreviations
† כְּפִיר noun masculine young lion; — כ׳ Judges 14:5 + 16 times; plural כְּפִרִים Jeremiah 2:15 + 3 times; כְּפִירִים Zechariah 11:3 + 7 times; suffix כְּפִירַיִךְ Nahum 2:14; כְּפִירֶיהָ Ezekiel 38:13 (Co reads כנעניה); — literal אֲרָיוֺת כ׳ Judges 14:5 young lion of lions; Amos 3:4; Psalm 17:12. It differs from whelp גּוּר Ezekiel 19:2, 3 as old enough to hunt its prey, Jeremiah 25:38; Isaiah 11:6; Zechariah 11:3; Psalm 104:21; in simile of roar of hostile army Isaiah 5:29 ׅ || (לָבִיא compare Jeremiah 51:38 ׅ || (גּוֺרֵי אריות; similie of י׳'s invincible might Isaiah 31:4 ׅ || (אַרְיֵה; of Israel among the nations, Micah 5:7; of Assyrian princes Nahum 2:12; of prince of Israel Ezekiel 19:5, 6; other cases are: || לָבִיא Job 38:39; || שַׁחַל Hosea 5:14; Psalm 91:13; Job 4:10; of bloodthirsty enemies Psalm 34:11; Psalm 35:17; Psalm 58:7; Jeremiah 2:15; גוים כ׳ Ezekiel 32:2, of young warriors Nahum 2:14; Ezekiel 38:13 (?; see Co above); righteous compared with, Proverbs 28:1; king's wrath like roaring of, Proverbs 19:12; Proverbs 20:2; of one of faces of cherubim Ezekiel 41:19.

כְּפִירִים Nehemiah 6:2, probably = foregoing H3716 (Greek Version of the LXX and others appellative noun = villages).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Judges

14:5; 14:5

Nehemiah

6:2

Job

4:10; 38:39

Psalms

17:12; 34:11; 35:17; 58:7; 91:13; 104:21

Proverbs

19:12; 20:2; 28:1

Isaiah

5:29; 11:6; 31:4

Jeremiah

2:15; 2:15; 25:38; 51:38

Ezekiel

19:2; 19:3; 19:5; 19:6; 32:2; 38:13; 38:13; 41:19

Hosea

5:14

Amos

3:4

Micah

5:7

Nahum

2:12

Zechariah

11:3; 11:3

H3715

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Strong's Number H3715 matches the Hebrew כְּפִיר (kᵊp̄îr),
which occurs 32 times in 32 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:5 - And Sampson and his father and his mother went down to Thamnatha, and he came to the vineyard of Thamnatha; and behold, a young lion roared [fn]in meeting him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:2 - that Sanaballat and Gesam sent to me, saying, Come and let us meet together in the villages in the plain of Ono. But they were plotting to do me mischief.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:10 - The strength of the lion, and the voice of the lioness, and the exulting cry of serpents are quenched.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:39

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:39 - And wilt thou hunt a prey for the lions? and satisfy the desires of the serpents?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 17:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 17:12 - (LXX 16:12) They laid wait for me as a lion ready for prey, and like a lion's whelp dwelling in secret places.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 34:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 34:10 - (LXX 33:11) The rich have become poor and hungry: but they that seek the Lord diligently shall not want any good thing. Pause.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 35:17

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 35:17 - (LXX 34:17) O Lord, when wilt thou look upon me? Deliver my soul from their mischief, mine only-begotten one from the lions.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 58:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 58:6 - (LXX 57:7) God has crushed their teeth in their mouth: God has broken the cheek-teeth of the lions.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 91:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 91:13 - (LXX 90:13) Thou shalt tread on the asp and basilisk: and thou shalt trample on the lion and dragon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:21

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:21 - (LXX 103:21) even young lions roaring for prey, and to seek meat for themselves from God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 19:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 19:12 - The threatening of a king is like the roaring of a lion; but as dew on the grass, so is his favour.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 20:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 20:2 - The threat of a king differs not from the rage of a lion; and he that provokes him sins against his own soul.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 28:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 28:1 - The ungodly man flees when no one pursues: but the righteous is confident as a lion.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:29

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:29 - They rage as lions, and draw nigh as a lion's whelps: and he shall seize, and roar as a wild beast, and he shall cast them forth, and there shall be none to deliver them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:6 - And the wolf shall feed with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the young calf and bull and lion shall feed together; and a little child shall lead them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 31:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 31:4 - For thus said the Lord to me, As a lion would roar, or a lion's whelp over prey which he has taken, and cry over it, until the mountains are filled with his voice, and the animals are awe-struck and tremble at the fierceness of his wrath: so the Lord of hosts shall descend to fight upon the mount Sion, even upon her mountains.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:15 - The lions roared upon him, and uttered their voice, which have made his land a wilderness: and his cities are broken down, that they should not be inhabited.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:38

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:38 - (LXX 32:38) He has forsaken his lair, as a lion: for their land is become desolate before the great sword.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:38

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:38 - (LXX 28:38) For they rose up together as lions, and as lions' whelps.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:2 - and say, Why is thy mother become a whelp in the midst of lions? in the midst of lions she has multiplied her whelps.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:3 - And one of her whelps sprang forth; he became a lion, and learned to take prey, he devoured men.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:5 - And she saw that he was driven away from her, and her hope of him perished, and she took another of her whelps; she made him a lion.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:6 - And he went up and down in the midst of lions, he became a lion, and learned to take prey, he devoured men.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:2 - Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharao king of Egypt, and say to him, Thou art become like a lion of the nations, and as the serpent that is in the sea: and thou didst make assaults with thy rivers, and didst disturb the water with thy feet, and didst trample thy rivers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:13 - Sabba, and Dædan, and Carthaginian merchants, and all their villages shall say to thee, Thou art come for plunder to take a prey, and to get spoils: thou hast gathered thy multitude to take silver and gold, to carry off property, to take spoils.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:19 - The face of a man was toward one palm-tree on this side and on that side, and the face of a lion toward another palm-tree on this side and on that side: the house was carved all round.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 5:14

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 5:14 - Wherefore I am as a panther to Ephraim, and as a lion to the house of Juda: and I will tear, and go away; and I will take, and there shall be none to deliver.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 3:4

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 3:4 - Will a lion roar out of his thicket if he has no prey? will a lion's whelp utter his voice at all out of his lair, if he have taken nothing?

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 5:8

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 5:8 - (LXX 5:7) And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many nations, as a lion in the forest among cattle, and as a lion's whelp among flocks of sheep, even as when he goes through, and selects, and carries off his prey, and there is none to deliver.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNah 2:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 2:11 - (LXX 2:12) Where is the dwelling-place of the lions, and the pasture that belonged to the whelps? where did the lion go, that the lion's whelp should enter in there, and there was none to scare him away?

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Unchecked Copy BoxNah 2:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 2:13 - (LXX 2:14) Behold, I am against thee, saith the Lord Almighty, and I will burn up thy multitude in the smoke, and the sword shall devour thy lions; and I will utterly destroy thy prey from off the land, and thy deeds shall no more at all be heard of.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 11:3

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 11:3 - There is a voice of the shepherds mourning; for their greatness is [fn]brought low: a voice of roaring lions; for the [fn]pride of Jordan is brought down.
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