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Lexicon :: Strong's G3023 - leōn

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λέων
Transliteration
leōn (Key)
Pronunciation
leh-ohn'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
A root word
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 4:251,531

Strong’s Definitions

†λέων léōn, leh-ohn'; a primary word; a "lion":—lion.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 9x

The KJV translates Strong's G3023 in the following manner: lion (9x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 9x
The KJV translates Strong's G3023 in the following manner: lion (9x).

  1. a lion

  2. a brave and mighty hero

    Both Christ and Satan are referred to as a lion, indicating great strength, Satan as a "roaring lion" (1Pe 5:8) and Christ as "the Lion of the tribe of Judah" (Rev 5:5).
Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
†λέων léōn, leh-ohn'; a primary word; a "lion":—lion.
STRONGS G3023:
λέων, λέοντος, ὁ (from Homer down), the Sept. for אֲרִי, אַריֵה, כְּפִיר (a young lion), etc.; a lion;
a. properly: Hebrews 11:33; 1 Peter 5:8; Revelation 4:7; Revelation 9:8, 17; Revelation 10:3; Revelation 13:2.
b. metaphorically ἐρρύσθην ἐκ στόματος λέοντος, I was rescued out of the most imminent peril of death, 2 Timothy 4:17 (the figure does not lie in the word lion alone, but in the whole phrase); equivalent to a brave and mighty hero: Revelation 5:5, where there is allusion to Genesis 49:9; cf. Nahum 2:13.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Genesis
49:9
Nahum
2:13
2 Timothy
4:17
Hebrews
11:33
1 Peter
5:8
Revelation
4:7; 5:5; 9:8; 9:17; 10:3; 13:2

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G3023 matches the Greek λέων (leōn),
which occurs 117 times in 102 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 2 / 3 (Ecc 9:4–Nah 2:13)

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 9:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:4 - For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 4:8

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:8 - Come with me from Lebanon, my spouse, with me from Lebanon: look from the top of Amana, from the top of Shenir and Hermon, from the lions' dens, from the mountains of the leopards.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 5:29

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:29 - Their roaring shall be like a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and shall carry it away safe, and none shall deliver it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 11:6

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 11:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:7 - And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 30:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:6 - The burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the young and old lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people that shall not profit them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 31:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 31:4 - For thus hath the LORD spoken unto me, Like as the lion and the young lion roaring on his prey, when a multitude of shepherds is called forth against him, he will not be afraid of their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them: so shall the LORD of hosts come down to fight for mount Zion, and for the hill thereof.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 35:9 - No lion shall be there, nor any ravenous beast shall go up thereon, it shall not be found there; but the redeemed shall walk there:

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 38:13

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:13 - I reckoned till morning, that, as a lion, so will he break all my bones: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 65:25

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:25 - The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent's meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 2:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:15 - The young lions roared upon him, and yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 2:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:30 - In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 4:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 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 cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 5:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 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 out thence shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings are increased.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 12:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:8 - Mine heritage is unto me as a lion in the forest; it crieth out against me: therefore have I hated it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 25:38

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:38 - He hath forsaken his covert, as the lion: for their land is desolate because of the fierceness of the oppressor, and because of his fierce anger.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 49:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 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 is a chosen man, that I may appoint over her? for who is like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who is that shepherd that will stand before me?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 50:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 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 broken his bones.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 50:44

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:44 - Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan unto the habitation of the strong: but I will make them suddenly run away from her: and who is a chosen man, that I may appoint over her? for who is like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who is that shepherd that will stand before me?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:38

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:38 - They shall roar together like lions: they shall yell as lions' whelps.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 3:10

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:10 - He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 1:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:10 - As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a man, and the face of a lion, on the right side: and they four had the face of an ox on the left side; they four also had the face of an eagle.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 19:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:2 - And say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 19:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:3 - And she brought up one of her whelps: it became a young lion, and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 19:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:5 - Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her whelps, and made him a young lion.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 19:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:6 - And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey, and devoured men.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 22:25

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 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 precious things; they have made her many widows in the midst thereof.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 32:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:2 - Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him, Thou art like a young lion of the nations, and thou art as a whale in the seas: and thou camest forth with thy rivers, and troubledst the waters with thy feet, and fouledst their rivers.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 41:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:19 - So that the face of a man was toward the palm tree on the one side, and the face of a young lion toward the palm tree on the other side: it was made through all the house round about.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 4:33

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 4:33 - The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar: and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown like eagles' feathers, and his nails like birds' claws.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 6:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:7 - All the presidents of the kingdom, the governors, and the princes, the counsellors, and the captains, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a firm decree, that whosoever shall ask a petition of any God or man for thirty days, save of thee, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 6:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:12 - Then they came near, and spake before the king concerning the king's decree; Hast thou not signed a decree, that every man that shall ask a petition of any God or man within thirty days, save of thee, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions? The king answered and said, The thing is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 6:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:16 - Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, and cast him into the den of lions. Now the king spake and said unto Daniel, Thy God whom thou servest continually, he will deliver thee.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 6:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:18 - Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting: neither were instruments of musick brought before him: and his sleep went from him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 6:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:19 - Then the king arose very early in the morning, and went in haste unto the den of lions.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:20 - And when he came to the den, he cried with a lamentable voice unto Daniel: and the king spake and said to Daniel, O Daniel, servant of the living God, is thy God, whom thou servest continually, able to deliver thee from the lions?

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 6:22

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:22 - My God hath sent his angel, and hath shut the lions' mouths, that they have not hurt me: forasmuch as before him innocency was found in me; and also before thee, O king, have I done no hurt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 6:24

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:24 - And the king commanded, and they brought those men which had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and the lions had the mastery of them, and brake all their bones in pieces or ever they came at the bottom of the den.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 6:27

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:27 - He delivereth and rescueth, and he worketh signs and wonders in heaven and in earth, who hath delivered Daniel from the power of the lions.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 5:14

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 5:14 - For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah: I, even I, will tear and go away; I will take away, and none shall rescue him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 11:10

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Joe 1:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:6 - For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 3:4

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 3:4 - Will a lion roar in the forest, when he hath no prey? will a young lion cry out of his den, if he have taken nothing?

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 3:8

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 3:8 - The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord GOD hath spoken, who can but prophesy?

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 3:12

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 3:12 - Thus saith the LORD; As the shepherd taketh out of the mouth of the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear; so shall the children of Israel be taken out that dwell in Samaria in the corner of a bed, and in Damascus in a couch.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 5:19

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:19 - As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mic 5:8

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Nah 2:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 2:11 - Where is the dwelling of the lions, and the feedingplace of the young lions, where the lion, even the old lion, walked, and the lion's whelp, and none made them afraid?

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Unchecked Copy Box Nah 2:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 2:12 - The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his holes with prey, and his dens with ravin.

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Unchecked Copy Box Nah 2:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 2:13 - Behold, I am against thee, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword shall devour thy young lions: and I will cut off thy prey from the earth, and the voice of thy messengers shall no more be heard.

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