כְּפִיר kᵉphîyr

Meaning

a village (as covered in by walls); also a young lion (perhaps as covered with a mane)

In the King James Version: (young) lion, village. Compare H3723 (כָּפָר).

Derivation: from H3722 (כָּפַר);

Where it is used

• Judges 14:5 Then Samson went down to Timnah with his father and mother and came to the vineyards of Timnah. Suddenly a young lion came roaring at him,
• Nehemiah 6:2 Sanballat and Geshem sent me this message: “Come, let us meet together in one of the villages on the plain of Ono.” But they were planning to harm me.
• Job 4:10 The lion may roar, and the fierce lion may growl, yet the teeth of the young lions are broken.
• Job 38:39 Can you hunt the prey for a lioness or satisfy the hunger of young lions
• Psalms 17:12 like a lion greedy for prey, like a young lion lurking in ambush.
• Psalms 34:10 Young lions go lacking and hungry, but those who seek the LORD lack no good thing.
• Psalms 35:17 How long, O Lord, will You look on? Rescue my soul from their ravages, my precious life from these lions.
• Psalms 58:6 O God, shatter their teeth in their mouths; O LORD, tear out the fangs of the lions.
• Psalms 91:13 You will tread on the lion and cobra; you will trample the young lion and serpent.
• Psalms 104:21 The young lions roar for their prey and seek their food from God.
• Proverbs 19:12 A king’s rage is like the roar of a lion, but his favor is like dew on the grass.
• Proverbs 20:2 The terror of a king is like the roar of a lion; whoever provokes him forfeits his own life.
• Proverbs 28:1 The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are as bold as a lion.
• Isaiah 5:29 Their roaring is like that of a lion; they roar like young lions. They growl and seize their prey; they carry it away, and no one can rescue it.
• Isaiah 11:6 The wolf will live with the lamb, and the leopard will lie down with the goat; the calf and young lion and fatling will be together, and a little child will lead them.
• Isaiah 31:4 For this is what the LORD has said to me: “Like a lion roaring or a young lion over its prey—and though a band of shepherds is called out against it, it is not terrified by their shouting or subdued by their clamor—so the LORD of Hosts will come down to do battle on Mount Zion and its heights.
• Jeremiah 2:15 The young lions have roared at him; they have sounded their voices. They have laid waste his land; his cities lie in ruins, without inhabitant.
• Jeremiah 25:38 He has left His den like a lion, for their land has been made a desolation by the sword of the oppressor, and because of the fierce anger of the LORD.
• Jeremiah 51:38 They will roar together like young lions; they will growl like lion cubs.
• Ezekiel 19:2 and say: ‘What was your mother? A lioness among the lions! She lay down among the young lions; she reared her cubs.
• Ezekiel 19:3 She brought up one of her cubs, and he became a young lion. After learning to tear his prey, he devoured men.
• Ezekiel 19:5 When she saw that she had waited in vain, that her hope was lost, she took another of her cubs and made him a young lion.
• Ezekiel 19:6 He prowled among the lions, and became a young lion. After learning to tear his prey, he devoured men.
• Ezekiel 32:2 “Son of man, take up a lament for Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him: ‘You are like a lion among the nations; you are like a monster in the seas. You thrash about in your rivers, churning up the waters with your feet and muddying the streams.’
• Ezekiel 38:13 Sheba and Dedan and the merchants of Tarshish with all its villages will ask, ‘Have you come to capture the plunder? Have you assembled your hordes to carry away loot, to make off with silver and gold, to take cattle and goods, to seize great spoil?’
• Ezekiel 41:19 the face of a man was toward the palm tree on one side, and the face of a young lion was toward the palm tree on the other side. They were carved all the way around the temple.
• Hosea 5:14 For I am like a lion to Ephraim and like a young lion to the house of Judah. I, even I, will tear them to pieces and then go away. I will carry them off where no one can rescue them.
• Amos 3:4 Does a lion roar in the forest when he has no prey? Does a young lion growl in his den if he has caught nothing?
• Micah 5:8 Then the remnant of Jacob will be among the nations, in the midst of many peoples, like a lion among the beasts of the forest, like a young lion among flocks of sheep, which tramples and tears as it passes through, with no one to rescue them.
• Nahum 2:11 Where is the lions’ lair or the feeding ground of the young lions, where the lion and lioness prowled with their cubs, with nothing to frighten them away?
• Nahum 2:13 “Behold, I am against you,” declares the LORD of Hosts. “I will reduce your chariots to cinders, and the sword will devour your young lions. I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the voices of your messengers will no longer be heard.”
• Zechariah 11:3 Listen to the wailing of the shepherds, for their glory is in ruins. Listen to the roaring of the young lions, for the thickets of the Jordan are destroyed.