Occurrences
Kᵉphîyr occurs 32 times in the King James.
Distribution of the word across the Bible: Judges (1), Nehemiah (1), Job (2), Psalms (6), Proverbs (3), Isaiah (3), Jeremiah (3), Ezekiel (7), Hosea (1), Amos (1), Micah (1), Nahum (2), Zechariah (1)
- 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 (כְּפִ֣יר) lion roared against him.
- Nehemiah 6:2 — That Sanballat and Geshem sent unto me, saying, Come, let us meet together in some one of the villages (בַּכְּפִירִ֖ים) in the plain of Ono. But they thought to do me mischief.
- Job 4:10 — The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions (כְפִירִ֣ים), are broken.
- Job 38:39 — Wilt thou hunt the prey for the lion? or fill the appetite of the young lions (כְּפִירִ֣ים),
- Psalms 17:12 — Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion (וְ֝כִכְפִ֗יר) lurking in secret places.
- Psalms 34:10 — The young lions (כְּ֭פִירִים) do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good thing.
- Psalms 35:17 — Lord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions (מִ֝כְּפִירִ֗ים).
- Psalms 58:6 — Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions (כְּ֝פִירִ֗ים), O LORD.
- Psalms 91:13 — Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion (כְּפִ֣יר) and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.
- Psalms 104:21 — The young lions (הַ֭כְּפִירִים) roar after their prey, and seek their meat from God.
- Proverbs 19:12 — The king’s wrath is as the roaring of a lion (כַּ֭כְּפִיר); but his favour is as dew upon the grass.
- Proverbs 20:2 — The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion (כַּ֭כְּפִיר): whoso provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul.
- Proverbs 28:1 — The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion (כִּכְפִ֥יר).
- Isaiah 5:29 — Their roaring shall be like a lion, they shall roar like young lions (כַּכְּפִירִ֤ים): yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and shall carry it away safe, and none shall deliver it.
- Isaiah 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 (וּכְפִ֤יר) and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.
- Isaiah 31:4 — For thus hath the LORD spoken unto me, Like as the lion and the young lion (וְהַכְּפִ֜יר) 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.
- Jeremiah 2:15 — The young lions (כְפִרִ֔ים) roared upon him, and yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant.
- Jeremiah 25:38 — He hath forsaken his covert, as the lion (כַּכְּפִ֖יר): for their land is desolate because of the fierceness of the oppressor, and because of his fierce anger.
- Jeremiah 51:38 — They shall roar together like lions (כַּכְּפִרִ֣ים): they shall yell as lions’ whelps.
- Ezekiel 19:2 — And say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions (כְּפִרִ֖ים).
- Ezekiel 19:3 — And she brought up one of her whelps: it became a young lion (כְּפִ֣יר), and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men.
- Ezekiel 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 (כְּפִ֥יר).
- Ezekiel 19:6 — And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion (כְּפִ֣יר), and learned to catch the prey, and devoured men.
- Ezekiel 32:2 — Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him, Thou art like a young lion (כְּפִ֥יר) 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.
- Ezekiel 38:13 — Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions (כְּפִרֶ֙יהָ֙) 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?
- Ezekiel 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 (כְפִ֥יר) toward the palm tree on the other side: it was made through all the house round about.
- Hosea 5:14 — For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion (וְכַכְּפִ֖יר) to the house of Judah: I, even I, will tear and go away; I will take away, and none shall rescue him.
- Amos 3:4 — Will a lion roar in the forest, when he hath no prey? will a young lion (כְּפִ֤יר) cry out of his den, if he have taken nothing?
- 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 (כִּכְפִ֖יר) among the flocks of sheep: who, if he go through, both treadeth down, and teareth in pieces, and none can deliver.
- Nahum 2:11 — Where is the dwelling of the lions, and the feedingplace of the young lions (לַכְּפִרִ֑ים), where the lion, even the old lion, walked, and the lion’s whelp, and none made them afraid?
- Nahum 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 (וּכְפִירַ֖יִךְ): and I will cut off thy prey from the earth, and the voice of thy messengers shall no more be heard.
- Zechariah 11:3 — There is a voice of the howling of the shepherds; for their glory is spoiled: a voice of the roaring of young lions (כְּפִירִ֔ים); for the pride of Jordan is spoiled.