πάρδαλις
leopard
also: a pard, panther fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G3917 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Revelation 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
At its core, παρδαλις (párdalis) means “leopard.” It is rare — just 1 verse in the entire Greek New Testament. Its uses cluster heavily in Revelation (100% of all occurrences). A true hapax — its single appearance is Revelation 13:2. Not a single-sense word, it carries 2 senses, among them “a pard” and “panther”. Dig into 1-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G3917 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 1 of 27 New Testament books.
- #3,503
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 3,503 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Revelation 1 verse 100%
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 1 distinct verse.
- Johannine 1 verse · 100%
- Revelation 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Leopard 1×
- American Standard Version: Leopard 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Leopard 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Leopard 1×, Serving 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3917 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G3917 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G3917 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G3917 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- a pard, panther, leopard
- a very fierce Asiatic and African animal, having a tawny skin marked with large black spots
Word origin
Origin: from pardos (a panther)
Feminine of πάρδος pardos (a panther ); a leopard : - leopard.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word παρδαλις appears 7 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 7 verses in 6 books.
- 7
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 7
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 6 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 6 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Song of Solomon 4:8 πάρδαλις
- Isaiah 11:6 πάρδαλις
- Jeremiah 5:6 πάρδαλις
- Daniel 7:6 πάρδαλις
- Hosea 13:7 πάρδαλις
- Habakkuk 1:8 πάρδαλις
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3917) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Song of Solomon 4:8 πάρδαλις Come with me from Lebanon, my bride, With me from Lebanon. Look from the top of Amana, From the top of Senir and Hermon, From the lions' dens, From the mountains of the leopards.
- Isaiah 11:6 πάρδαλις The wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fattened calf together; and a little child shall lead them.
- Jeremiah 5:6 πάρδαλις Therefore a lion out of the forest shall kill them, a wolf of the evenings shall destroy them, a leopard shall watch against their cities; everyone who goes out there shall be torn in pieces; because their transgressions are many, [and] their backsliding is increased.
- Jeremiah 13:23 πάρδαλις Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may you also do good, who are accustomed to do evil.
- Daniel 7:6 πάρδαλις After this I saw, and, behold, another, like a leopard, which had on its back four wings of a bird; the animal had also four heads; and dominion was given to it.
- Hosea 13:7 πάρδαλις Therefore am I to them like a lion; Like a leopard I will lurk by the path.
- Habakkuk 1:8 πάρδαλις Their horses also are swifter than leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves. Their horsemen press proudly on. Yes, their horsemen come from afar. They fly as an eagle that hurries to devour.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3917) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
