Limitless Word
כְּפִירkᵉphîyr/kef-eer'/
HebrewH371532 occurrences (KJV)

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

KJV renders it: (young) lion, village. Compare H3723 (כָּפָר).

Where it appears

  • Judg 14:5Then went Samson down with his father and his mother to Timnah, and came to the vineyards of Timnah; and behold, a young lion roared against him.
  • Neh 6:2Sanballat and Geshem sent to me, saying, “Come, let us meet together in the villages in the plain of Ono.” But they intended to harm me.
  • Job 4:10The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, the teeth of the young lions, are broken.
  • Job 38:39“Can you hunt the prey for the lioness, or satisfy the appetite of the young lions,
  • Ps 17:12He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey, as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
  • Ps 34:10The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger, but those who seek Yahweh shall not lack any good thing.
  • Ps 35:17Lord, how long will you look on? Rescue my soul from their destruction, my precious life from the lions.
  • Ps 58:6Break their teeth, God, in their mouth. Break out the great teeth of the young lions, Yahweh.
  • Ps 91:13You will tread on the lion and cobra. You will trample the young lion and the serpent underfoot.
  • Ps 104:21The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their food from God.
  • Prov 19:12The king’s wrath is like the roaring of a lion, but his favor is like dew on the grass.
  • Prov 20:2The terror of a king is like the roaring of a lion. He who provokes him to anger forfeits his own life.
  • Prov 28:1The wicked flee when no one pursues; but the righteous are as bold as a lion.
  • Isa 5:29Their roaring will be like a lioness. They will roar like young lions. Yes, they shall roar, and seize their prey and carry it off, and there will be no one to deliver.
  • Isa 11:6The wolf will live with the lamb, and the leopard will lie down with the young goat; The calf, the young lion, and the fattened calf together; and a little child will lead them.
  • Isa 31:4For Yahweh says to me, “As the lion and the young lion growling over his prey, if a multitude of shepherds is called together against him, will not be dismayed at their voice, nor abase himself for their noise, so Yahweh of Armies will come down to fight on Mount Zion and on its heights.
  • Jer 2:15The young lions have roared at him, and yelled. They have made his land waste. His cities are burned up, without inhabitant.
  • Jer 25:38He has left his covert, as the lion; for their land has become an astonishment because of the fierceness of the oppression, and because of his fierce anger.
  • Jer 51:38They will roar together like young lions. They will growl as lions’ cubs.
  • Ezek 19:2and say, ‘What was your mother? A lioness. She couched among lions, in the middle of the young lions she nourished her cubs.
  • Ezek 19:3She brought up one of her cubs. He became a young lion, and he learned to catch the prey. He devoured men.
  • Ezek 19:5“‘Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her cubs, and made him a young lion.
  • Ezek 19:6He went up and down among the lions; he became a young lion, and he learned to catch the prey. He devoured men.
  • Ezek 32:2Son of man, take up a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt, and tell him, You were likened to a young lion of the nations: yet you are as a monster in the seas; and you broke out with your rivers, and troubled the waters with your feet, and fouled their rivers.
  • Ezek 38:13Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions of it, shall tell you, Have you come to take the plunder? have you assembled your company to take the prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away livestock and goods, to take great plunder?
  • Ezek 41:19so that there was the face of a man 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 like this through all the house all around:
  • Hos 5:14For I will be to Ephraim like a lion, and like a young lion to the house of Judah. I myself will tear in pieces and go away. I will carry off, and there will be no one to deliver.
  • Amos 3:4Will a lion roar in the thicket, when he has no prey? Does a young lion cry out of his den, if he has caught nothing?
  • Mic 5:8The remnant of Jacob will be among the nations, among many peoples, like a lion among the animals of the forest, like a young lion among the flocks of sheep; who, if he goes through, treads down and tears in pieces, and there is no one to deliver.
  • Nah 2:11Where is the den of the lions, and the feeding place of the young lions, where the lion and the lioness walked, the lion’s cubs, and no one made them afraid?
  • Nah 2:13“Behold, I am against you,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword will devour your young lions; and I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the voice of your messengers will no longer be heard.”
  • Zech 11:3A voice of the wailing of the shepherds! For their glory is destroyed: a voice of the roaring of young lions! For the pride of the Jordan is ruined.

Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.