σκύμνος
young lion, cub
Where this word appears
Every passage where σκύμνος appears in the Greek Septuagint — 27 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 49:9 σκύμνος Juda is a lion's whelp: from the tender plant, my son, you are gone up, having couched you lie as a lion, and as a whelp; who shall stir him up?
- Genesis 49:9 σκύμνος Juda is a lion's whelp: from the tender plant, my son, you are gone up, having couched you lie as a lion, and as a whelp; who shall stir him up?
- Numbers 23:24 σκύμνος Behold, the people shall rise up as a lion's whelp, and shall exalt himself as a lion; he shall not lie down till he have eaten the prey, and he shall drink the blood of the slain.
- Numbers 24:9 σκύμνος He lay down, he rested as a lion, and as a young lion; who shall stir him up? they that bless you are blessed, and they that curse you are cursed.
- Deuteronomy 33:22 σκύμνος And to Dan he said, Dan is a lion's whelp, and shall leap out of Basan.
- Judges 14:5 σκύμνος And Sampson and his father and his mother went down to Thamnatha, and he came to the vineyard of Thamnatha; and behold, a young lion roared in meeting him.
- Job 4:11 σκύμνος The old lion has perished for lack of food, and the lions' whelps have forsaken one another.
- Psalms 16:12 σκύμνος They laid wait for me as a lion ready for prey, and like a lion's whelp dwelling in secret places.
- Psalms 56:5 σκύμνος Be you exalted, O God, above the heavens; and your glory above all the earth.
- Psalms 103:21 σκύμνος even young lions roaring for prey, and to seek meat for themselves from God.
- Proverbs 30:30 σκύμνος A lion's whelp, stronger than all other beasts, which turns not away, nor fears any beast;
- Isaiah 5:29 σκύμνος They rage as lions, and draw near as a lion's whelps: and he shall seize, and roar as a wild beast, and he shall cast them forth, and there shall be none to deliver them.
- Isaiah 30:6 σκύμνος THE VISION OF THE QUADRUPEDS IN THE DESERT. In affliction and distress, where are the lion and lion's whelp, thence come also asps, and the young of flying asps, there shall they be who bore their wealth on asses and camels to a nation which shall not profit them.
- Isaiah 31:4 σκύμνος For thus said the Lord to me, As a lion would roar, or a lion's whelp over prey which he has taken, and cry over it, until the mountains are filled with his voice, and the animals are awe-struck and tremble at the fierceness of his wrath: so the Lord of hosts shall descend to fight upon the mount Sion, even upon her mountains.
- Jeremiah 28:38 σκύμνος For they rose up together as lions, and as lions' whelps.
- Lamentations 4:3 σκύμνος GIMEL. Nay, serpents have drawn out the breasts, they give suck to their young, the daughters of my people are incurably cruel, as an ostrich in a desert.
- Ezekiel 19:2 σκύμνος and say, Why is your mother become a whelp in the midst of lions? in the midst of lions she has multiplied her whelps.
- Ezekiel 19:2 σκύμνος and say, Why is your mother become a whelp in the midst of lions? in the midst of lions she has multiplied her whelps.
- Ezekiel 19:3 σκύμνος And one of her whelps sprang forth; he became a lion, and learned to take prey, he devoured men.
- Ezekiel 19:5 σκύμνος And she saw that he was driven away from her, and her hope of him perished, and she took another of her whelps; she made him a lion.
- Hosea 13:8 σκύμνος I will meet them by the way of the Assyrians, as a she-bear excited, and I will rend the caul of their heart, and the lions' whelps of the thicket shall devour them there; the wild beasts of the field shall rend them in pieces.
- Joel 1:6 σκύμνος For a strong and innumerable nation is come up against my land, their teeth are lion's teeth, and their back teeth those of a lion's whelp.
- Amos 3:4 σκύμνος Will a lion roar out of his thicket if he has no prey? will a lion's whelp utter his voice at all out of his lair, if he have taken nothing?
- Micah 5:7 σκύμνος And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many peoples, as dew falling from the Lord, and as lambs on the grass; that none may assemble nor resist among the sons of men.
- Nahum 2:12 σκύμνος The lion seized enough prey for his whelps, and strangled for his young lions, and filled his lair with prey, and his dwelling-place with spoil.
- Nahum 2:12 σκύμνος The lion seized enough prey for his whelps, and strangled for his young lions, and filled his lair with prey, and his dwelling-place with spoil.
- Nahum 2:13 σκύμνος Behold, I am against you, says the Lord Almighty, and I will burn up your multitude in the smoke, and the sword shall devour your lions; and I will utterly destroy your prey from off the land, and your deeds shall no more at all be heard of.
About this word
About this word
σκύμνος (skýmnos), “young lion, cub,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 27 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →