Lion
A powerful predator symbolizing strength, courage, royalty, and both divine and satanic power. The tribe of Judah is called 'a lion's cub' (Genesis 49:9), and Christ is the 'Lion of the tribe of Judah' (Revelation 5:5). Proverbs 28:1 declares, 'The wicked flee though no one pursues, but the righteous are as bold as a lion.' Yet the lion also represents danger: First Peter 5:8 warns, 'Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.' Daniel was protected in the lions' den (Daniel 6:22). Samson killed a lion with his bare hands (Judges 14:5-6). Isaiah 11:7 envisions the lion lying down peacefully with the calf in the messianic age.
Verses about Lion
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בראשית 49:9
Judah is a lion’s whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?
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במדבר 23:24
Behold, the people shall rise up as a great lion, and lift up himself as a young lion: he shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, and drink the…
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במדבר 24:9
He couched, he lay down as a lion, and as a great lion: who shall stir him up? Blessed is he that blesseth thee, and cursed is he that curseth thee.
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דברים 33:20
And of Gad he said, Blessed be he that enlargeth Gad: he dwelleth as a lion, and teareth the arm with the crown of the head.
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דברים 33:22
And of Dan he said, Dan is a lion’s whelp: he shall leap from Bashan.
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שופטים 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 lion roared against him.
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שופטים 14:8
And after a time he returned to take her, and he turned aside to see the carcase of the lion: and, behold, there was a swarm of bees and honey in th…
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שופטים 14:9
And he took thereof in his hands, and went on eating, and came to his father and mother, and he gave them, and they did eat: but he told not them th…
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שופטים 14:18
And the men of the city said unto him on the seventh day before the sun went down, What is sweeter than honey? and what is stronger than a lion? And…
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שמואל א 17:34
And David said unto Saul, Thy servant kept his father’s sheep, and there came a lion, and a bear, and took a lamb out of the flock:
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שמואל א 17:36
Thy servant slew both the lion and the bear: and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, seeing he hath defied the armies of the livi…
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שמואל א 17:37
David said moreover, The Lord that delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of th…
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שמואל ב 1:23
Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided: they were swifter than eagles, they were strong…
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שמואל ב 17:10
And he also that is valiant, whose heart is as the heart of a lion, shall utterly melt: for all Israel knoweth that thy father is a mighty man, and …
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שמואל ב 23:20
And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man, of Kabzeel, who had done many acts, he slew two lionlike men of Moab: he went down also a…
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מלכים א 7:29
And on the borders that were between the ledges were lions, oxen, and cherubims: and upon the ledges there was a base above: and beneath the lions a…
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מלכים א 7:36
For on the plates of the ledges thereof, and on the borders thereof, he graved cherubims, lions, and palm trees, according to the proportion of ever…
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מלכים א 10:19
The throne had six steps, and the top of the throne was round behind: and there were stays on either side on the place of the seat, and two lions st…
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מלכים א 10:20
And twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other upon the six steps: there was not the like made in any kingdom.
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מלכים א 13:24
And when he was gone, a lion met him by the way, and slew him: and his carcase was cast in the way, and the ass stood by it, the lion also stood by …