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Lexicon :: Strong's H3715 - kᵊp̄îr

Aa
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 - Then Samson went down to Timnah (and his father and his mother,) and came to the vine-gardens of Timnah; and a young lion came rushing out at him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:2 - Sanballat and Geshem sent to me saying, Come, let us have a meeting in one of the little towns in the lowland of Ono. But their purpose was to do me evil.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:10 - Though the noise of the lion and the sounding of his voice, may be loud, the teeth of the young lions are broken.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:39

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:39 - Do you go after food for the she-lion, or get meat so that the young lions may have enough,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 17:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 17:12 - Like a lion desiring its food, and like a young lion waiting in secret places.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 34:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 34:10 - The young lions are in need and have no food; but those who are looking to the Lord will have every good thing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 35:17

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 35:17 - Lord, how long will you be looking on? take my soul from their destruction, my life from the lions.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 58:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 58:6 - O God, let their teeth be broken in their mouths; let the great teeth of the young lions be pulled out, O Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 91:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 91:13 - You will put your foot on the lion and the snake; the young lion and the great snake will be crushed under your feet.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:21

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:21 - The young lions go thundering after their food; searching for their meat from God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 19:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 19:12 - The king's wrath is like the loud cry of a lion, but his approval is like dew on the grass.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 20:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 20:2 - The wrath of a king is like the loud cry of a lion: he who makes him angry does wrong against himself.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 28:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 28:1 - The evil man goes running away when no man is after him, but the upright are without fear, like the lion.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:29

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:29 - The sound of their armies will be like the voice of a lion, and their war-cry like the noise of young lions: with loud cries they will come down on their food and will take it away safely, and there will be no one to take it out of their hands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:6 - And the wolf will be living with the lamb, and the leopard will take his rest with the young goat; and the lion will take grass for food like the ox; and the young lion will go with the young ones of the herd; and a little child will be their guide.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 31:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 31:4 - For the Lord has said to me, As a lion, or a young lion, makes an angry noise over his food, and if a band of herdsmen come out against him, he will not be in fear of their voices, or give up his food for their noise: so the Lord of armies will come down to make war against Mount Zion and its hill.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:15 - The young lions have made an outcry against him with a loud voice: they have made his land waste; his towns are burned up, with no one living in them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:38

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:38 - The lion has come out of his secret place, for the land has become a waste because of the cruel sword, and because of the heat of his wrath.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:38

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:38 - They will be crying out together like lions, their voices will be like the voices of young lions.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:2 - What was your mother? Like a she-lion among lions, stretched out among the young lions she gave food to her little ones.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:3 - And one of her little ones came to growth under her care, and became a young lion, learning to go after beasts for his food; and he took men for his meat.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:5 - Now when she saw that her hope was made foolish and gone, she took another of her little ones and made him into a young lion.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:6 - And he went up and down among the lions and became a young lion, learning to go after beasts for his food; and he took men for his meat.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:2 - Son of man, make a song of grief for Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and say to him, Young lion of the nations, destruction has come on you; and you were like a sea-beast in the seas, sending out bursts of water, troubling the waters with your feet, making their streams dirty.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:13 - Sheba, and Dedan and her traders, Tarshish with all her traders, will say to you, Have you come to take our goods? have you got your armies together to take away our property by force? to take away silver and gold, cattle and goods, to go off with great wealth?

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:19

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 5:14

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 5:14 - For I will be to Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the children of Judah; I, even I, will give him wounds and go away; I will take him away, and there will be no helper.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 3:4

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 3:4 - Will a lion give his loud cry in the woodland when no food is there? will the voice of the young lion be sounding from his hole if he has taken nothing?

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 5:8

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 5:8 - And the rest of Jacob will be among the nations, in the middle of the mass of peoples, like a lion among the beasts of the woods, like a young lion among the flocks of sheep: if he goes through, they will be crushed under foot and pulled to bits, and there will be no saviour.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNah 2:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 2:11 - Where is the lions' hole, the place where the young lions got their food, where the lion and the she-lion were walking with their young, without cause for fear?

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Unchecked Copy BoxNah 2:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 2:13 - See, I am against you, says the Lord of armies, and I will have your war-carriages burned in the smoke, and your young lions will be food for the sword: you will no longer get your food by force on the earth, and the voice of your she-lions will be stopped for ever.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 11:3

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 11:3 - The sound of the crying of the keepers of the flock! for their glory is made waste: the sound of the loud crying of the young lions! for the pride of Jordan is made waste.
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