אֲרִי
lion
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Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute 63 times (78%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute 18 times (22%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 81 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H738 appears — 71 distinct verses across 25 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew 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 Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Genesis 1 verse
Numbers 2 verses
- Numbers 23:24 וְ/כַ/אֲרִ֖י conj + prep + n c ms Behold, the people rises up as a lioness, As a lion does he lift himself up: He shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, Drink the blood of the slain.
- Numbers 24:9 כַּ/אֲרִ֛י prep + n c ms He couched, he lay down as a lion, As a lioness; who shall rouse him up? Blessed be everyone who blesses you, Cursed be everyone who curses you.
Deuteronomy 1 verse
Judges 4 verses
- Judges 14:5 אֲרָי֔וֹת n c mp Then went Samson down, and his father and his mother, to Timnah, and came to the vineyards of Timnah: and, behold, a young lion roared against him.
- Judges 14:8 הָ/אַרְיֵ֑ה הָ/אַרְיֵ֖ה ptcl def.art + n c ms ptcl def.art + n c ms After a while he returned to take her; and he turned aside to see the carcass of the lion: and, behold, there was a swarm of bees in the body of the lion, and honey.
- Judges 14:9 הָ/אַרְיֵ֖ה ptcl def.art + n c ms He took it into his hands, and went on, eating as he went; and he came to his father and mother, and gave to them, and they ate: but he didn't tell them that he had taken the honey out of the body of the lion.
- Judges 14:18 מֵ/אֲרִ֑י prep + n c ms The men of the city said to him on the seventh day before the sun went down, What is sweeter than honey? and what is stronger than a lion? He said to them, If you hadn't plowed with my heifer, You wouldn't have found out my riddle.
1 Samuel 3 verses
- 1 Samuel 17:34 הָֽ/אֲרִי֙ ptcl def.art + n c ms David said to Saul, Your servant was keeping his father's sheep; and when there came a lion, or a bear, and took a lamb out of the flock,
- 1 Samuel 17:36 הָ/אֲרִ֛י ptcl def.art + n c ms Your servant struck both the lion and the bear: and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, seeing he has defied the armies of the living God.
- 1 Samuel 17:37 הָֽ/אֲרִי֙ ptcl def.art + n c ms David said, Yahweh who 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 this Philistine. Saul said to David, Go, and Yahweh shall be with you.
2 Samuel 3 verses
- 2 Samuel 1:23 מֵ/אֲרָי֖וֹת prep + n c mp Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, In their death they were not divided: They were swifter than eagles, They were stronger than lions.
- 2 Samuel 17:10 הָ/אַרְיֵ֖ה ptcl def.art + n c ms Even he who is valiant, whose heart is as the heart of a lion, will utterly melt; for all Israel knows that your father is a mighty man, and those who are with him are valiant men.
- 2 Samuel 23:20 ה/אריה הָ/אֲרִ֛י ptcl def.art + n c ms ptcl def.art + n c ms Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done mighty deeds, he killed the two [sons of] Ariel of Moab: he went down also and killed a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow.
1 Kings 9 verses
- 1 Kings 7:29 אֲרָי֤וֹת לַ/אֲרָי֣וֹת n c mp prep + n c mp and on the panels that were between the ledges were lions, oxen, and cherubim; and on the ledges there was a pedestal above; and beneath the lions and oxen were wreaths of hanging work.
- 1 Kings 7:36 אֲרָי֣וֹת n c mp On the plates of the stays of it, and on the panels of it, he engraved cherubim, lions, and palm trees, according to the space of each, with wreaths round about.
- 1 Kings 10:19 אֲרָי֔וֹת n c mp There were six steps to the throne, and the top of the throne was round behind; and there were stays on either side by the place of the seat, and two lions standing beside the stays.
- 1 Kings 10:20 אֲרָיִ֗ים n c mp Twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other on the six steps: there was nothing like it made in any kingdom.
- 1 Kings 13:24 אַרְיֵ֛ה וְ/הָ֣/אַרְיֵ֔ה n c ms conj + ptcl def.art + n c ms When he was gone, a lion met him by the way, and killed him: and his body was cast in the way, and the donkey stood by it; the lion also stood by the body.
- 1 Kings 13:25 הָ֣/אַרְיֵ֔ה ptcl def.art + n c ms Behold, men passed by, and saw the body cast in the way, and the lion standing by the body; and they came and told it in the city where the old prophet lived.
- 1 Kings 13:26 לָ/אַרְיֵ֗ה prep det + n c ms When the prophet who brought him back from the way heard of it, he said, It is the man of God, who was disobedient to the mouth of Yahweh: therefore Yahweh has delivered him to the lion, which has torn him, and slain him, according to the word of Yahweh, which he spoke to him.
- 1 Kings 13:28 וְ/הָ֣/אַרְיֵ֔ה הָֽ/אַרְיֵה֙ conj + ptcl def.art + n c ms ptcl def.art + n c ms He went and found his body cast in the way, and the donkey and the lion standing by the body: the lion had not eaten the body, nor torn the donkey.
- 1 Kings 20:36 הָ/אַרְיֵ֑ה הָ/אַרְיֵ֖ה ptcl def.art + n c ms ptcl def.art + n c ms Then said he to him, Because you have not obeyed the voice of Yahweh, behold, as soon as you are departed from me, a lion shall kill you. As soon as he was departed from him, a lion found him, and killed him.
2 Kings 2 verses
- 2 Kings 17:25 הָ֣/אֲרָי֔וֹת ptcl def.art + n c mp So it was, at the beginning of their dwelling there, that they didn't fear Yahweh: therefore Yahweh sent lions among them, which killed some of them.
- 2 Kings 17:26 הָ/אֲרָי֗וֹת ptcl def.art + n c mp Therefore they spoke to the king of Assyria, saying, The nations which you have carried away, and placed in the cities of Samaria, don't know the law of the god of the land: therefore he has sent lions among them, and, behold, they kill them, because they don't know the law of the god of the land.
1 Chronicles 2 verses
- 1 Chronicles 11:22 הָ/אֲרִ֛י ptcl def.art + n c ms Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done mighty deeds, he killed the two [sons of] Ariel of Moab: he went down also and killed a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow.
- 1 Chronicles 12:8 אַרְיֵה֙ n c ms Of the Gadites there separated themselves to David to the stronghold in the wilderness, mighty men of valor, men trained for war, that could handle shield and spear; whose faces were like the faces of lions, and they were as swift as the roes on the mountains;
2 Chronicles 2 verses
- 2 Chronicles 9:18 אֲרָי֔וֹת n c mp nd there were six steps to the throne, with a footstool of gold, which were fastened to the throne, and stays on either side by the place of the seat, and two lions standing beside the stays.
- 2 Chronicles 9:19 אֲרָי֗וֹת n c mp Twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other on the six steps: there was nothing like it made in any kingdom.
Job 1 verse
Psalms 5 verses
- Psalms 7:2 כְּ/אַרְיֵ֣ה prep + n c ms Lest they tear apart my soul like a lion, Ripping it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.
- Psalms 10:9 כְּ/אַרְיֵ֬ה prep + n c ms He lurks in secret as a lion in his ambush. He lies in wait to catch the helpless. He catches the helpless, when he draws him in his net.
- Psalms 17:12 כְּ֭/אַרְיֵה prep + n c ms He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey, As it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
- Psalms 22:13 אַ֝רְיֵ֗ה n c ms They open their mouths wide against me, Lions tearing prey and roaring.
- Psalms 22:21 אַרְיֵ֑ה n c ms Save me from the lion's mouth; Yes, from the horns of the wild oxen you have answered me.
Proverbs 3 verses
- Proverbs 22:13 אֲרִ֣י n c ms The sluggard says, "There is a lion outside! I will be killed in the streets!"
- Proverbs 26:13 אֲ֝רִ֗י n c ms The sluggard says, "There is a lion in the road! A fierce lion roams the streets!"
- Proverbs 28:15 אֲרִי n c ms As a roaring lion or a charging bear, So is a wicked ruler over helpless people.
Ecclesiastes 1 verse
Song of Solomon 1 verse
Isaiah 7 verses
- Isaiah 11:7 וְ/אַרְיֵ֖ה conj + n c ms The cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
- Isaiah 15:9 אַרְיֵ֔ה n c ms For the waters of Dimon are full of blood; for I will bring yet more on Dimon, a lion on them of Moab that escape, and on the remnant of the land.
- Isaiah 21:8 אַרְיֵ֑ה n c ms He cried as a lion: Lord, I stand continually on the watch-tower in the day-time, and am set in my ward whole nights;
- Isaiah 31:4 הָ/אַרְיֵ֨ה ptcl def.art + n c ms For thus says Yahweh to me, As the lion and the young lion growling over his prey, if a multitude of shepherds are called forth against him, will not be dismayed at their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them: so will Yahweh of Hosts come down to fight on Mount Zion, and on the hill of it.
- Isaiah 35:9 אַרְיֵ֗ה n c ms No lion shall be there, nor shall any ravenous animal go up thereon; they shall not be found there; but the redeemed shall walk [there]:
- Isaiah 38:13 כָּֽ/אֲרִ֔י prep det + n c ms I quieted [myself] until morning; as a lion, so he breaks all my bones: From day even to night will you make an end of me.
- Isaiah 65:25 וְ/אַרְיֵה֙ conj + n c ms The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the ox; and dust shall be the serpent's food. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, says Yahweh.
Jeremiah 8 verses
- Jeremiah 2:30 כְּ/אַרְיֵ֥ה prep + n c ms In vain have I struck your children; they received no correction: your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
- Jeremiah 4:7 אַרְיֵה֙ n c ms A lion is gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations; he is on his way, he is gone forth from his place, to make your land desolate, that your cities be laid waste, without inhabitant.
- Jeremiah 5:6 אַרְיֵ֜ה n c ms 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 12:8 כְּ/אַרְיֵ֣ה prep + n c ms My heritage is become to me as a lion in the forest: she has uttered her voice against me; therefore I have hated her.
- Jeremiah 49:19 כְּ/אַרְיֵ֞ה prep + n c ms Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the pride of the Jordan against the strong habitation: for I will suddenly make them run away from it; and whoever is chosen, him will I appoint over it: for who is like me? and who will appoint me a time? and who is the shepherd who will stand before me?
- Jeremiah 50:17 אֲרָי֣וֹת n c mp Israel is a hunted sheep; the lions have driven him away: first, the king of Assyria devoured him; and now at last Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon has broken his bones.
- Jeremiah 50:44 כְּ/אַרְיֵ֞ה prep + n c ms Behold, [the enemy] shall come up like a lion from the pride of the Jordan against the strong habitation: for I will suddenly make them run away from it; and whoever is chosen, him will I appoint over it: for who is like me? and who will appoint me a time? and who is the shepherd who can stand before me?
- Jeremiah 51:38 אֲרָיֽוֹת n c mp They shall roar together like young lions; they shall growl as lions' cubs.
Lamentations 1 verse
Ezekiel 5 verses
- Ezekiel 1:10 אַרְיֵ֤ה n c ms As for the likeness of their faces, they had the face of a man; and they four had the face of a lion on the right side; and they four had the face of an ox on the left side; they four had also the face of an eagle.
- Ezekiel 10:14 אַרְיֵ֔ה n c ms Every one had four faces: the first face was the face of the cherub, and the second face was the face of a man, and the third face the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle.
- Ezekiel 19:2 אֲרָי֖וֹת n c mp and say, What was your mother? A lioness: she couched among lions, in the midst of the young lions she nourished her cubs.
- Ezekiel 19:6 אֲרָי֖וֹת n c mp He went up and down among the lions; he became a young lion, and he learned to catch the prey; he devoured men.
- Ezekiel 22:25 כַּ/אֲרִ֥י prep + n c ms There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst of it, like a roaring lion ravening the prey: they have devoured souls; they take treasure and precious things; they have made her widows many in the midst of it.
Hosea 1 verse
Joel 1 verse
Amos 4 verses
- Amos 3:4 אַרְיֵה֙ n c ms Will 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?
- Amos 3:8 אַרְיֵ֥ה n c ms The lion has roared. Who will not fear? The Lord Yahweh has spoken. Who can but prophesy?
- Amos 3:12 הָ/אֲרִ֛י ptcl def.art + n c ms Thus says Yahweh: "As the shepherd rescues out of the mouth of the lion two legs, Or a piece of an ear, So shall the children of Israel be rescued who sit in Samaria on the corner of a couch, And on the silken cushions of a bed."
- Amos 5:19 הָ/אֲרִ֔י ptcl def.art + n c ms As if a man fled from a lion, And a bear met him; Or he went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, And a snake bit him.
Micah 1 verse
Nahum 2 verses
- Nahum 2:11 אֲרָי֔וֹת אַרְיֵ֨ה אַרְיֵ֖ה n c mp n c ms n c ms Where 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?
- Nahum 2:12 אַרְיֵ֤ה n c ms The lion tore in pieces enough for his cubs, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his caves with the kill, and his dens with prey.
Zephaniah 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.
ארי (ʼărîy) is a Hebrew noun most often rendered “lion.” It first appears in Genesis 49:9. With 71 verses in 25 books, it is a moderately common word in the Hebrew Bible. Ranging over 2 senses, it is not a single-sense word. It clusters with ארה, ארוה and ארון under a shared root. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H738 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 71
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 71 distinct verses.
- 25 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 25 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #499
- by frequency
- Top 500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 499 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 71 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 71 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 51 verses · 72%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 16 verses · 23%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 4 verses · 6%
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).
BDB lists this Strong’s number as 2 distinct words (homographs). Each count above pools all of them and is not split by sense — see the Senses section below. A low-frequency rendering may belong to a different one of those words, not the primary meaning.
- King James Version†: Lion 44×, Lions 13×, Like a lion 4×
- American Standard Version†: Lion 40×, Lions 14×, Is a lion 3×
- Berean Standard Bible†: Lion 38×, Lions 13×, Like a lion 12×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: Lion 45×, Lions 13×, Like a lion 10×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H738 across 79† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 12 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H738 across 76† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 17 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H738 across 78† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 12 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 2 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H738 across 80† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 10 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB 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.
- lion
- pictures or images of lions
Word origin
I. n.m. Pr 28:15 lion (Assyrian aria, Ethiopic አርዌ wild beast, cf. also אַרְיֵה infr.)—אֲרִי Am 3:12 + 13 times + 2 S 23:20 Qr (Kt אריה), La 3:10 (id.) + ψ 22:17 (כָּֽאֲרִי for wh. read כארו = כָּרוּ cf. De Pe Che crit. note); pl. אֲרָיִים 1 K 10:20; אֲרָיוֹת (also m.) Zp 3:3 + 16 times (f. Je 51:38? but cf. Ju 14:5);—lion, lit. in narrative Ju 14:5; 1 S 17:34, 36, 37; 2 S 23:20 = 1 Ch 11:22; 2 K 17:25, 26; Pr 22:13; 26:13 Ct 4:8 cf. Am 3:12; 5:19; lion-images 1 K 7:29(×2), 36; 10:19, 20 = 2 Ch 9:18, 19; in comparison Nu 23:24; 24:9 Ju 14:18; Is 38:13; Je 51:38; 2 S 1:33; Ez 22:25; La 3:10; metaph. Na 2:12; Zp 3:3; Je 50:17; Ez 19:2, 6 Pr 28:15. For כארי ψ 22:17 read כארו, cf. above. Cf. also אַרְיֵה.
I. n.[m.] moisture (for *רְוִי Sta§ 117 c, or רִוְיְ Köii. 1, 64; cf. ii. כִּי);—abs. בְּרִי יַטְרִיחַ עָ֑ב Jb 37:11.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from ארה (ʼârâh) (H717) — to pluck.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
אֲרֵי
- (v. next w.; cmp. אֲרוּ) prop. behold, in most cases corresponding to b. h. כִּי, that, so that, because, if; but. Targ. O. ארי; Targ. Y. ארום; v. fr.
אֲרִי I
- (√אר, cmp. ירי) prop. to point, throw, hence (in a logical sense) to argue, question, discuss, treat. B. Kam. 30ᵇ מדקא ארינן גלל Ar. (ed. איירינן, v. infra) since we pointed out the law about the dung placed in the street as an argument against Rab. Keth. 16ᵃ, a. fr. ודקארי לה מאי קארי לה and he who raised the question, how could he raise it at all, i.e. the answer being so obvious, what must have been the impression he labored under, that he could ask such a question, or raise such an argument?—Y. Keth. VI, 30ᵈ bot. ואין קמו יתמי ואָרוּן if the heirs should rise and raise objections (go to law).
- same. Ned. 2ᵇ איירי בהון he does treat thereof.—Pes. 6ᵇ, a. fr. איידי דאיירי ב־ incidentally of treating the question of … Kerith. 14ᵃ, a. fr. (באבר אחד) קא מַיְירֵי the argument is up (about one limb). B. Kam. 30ᵇ כי איירינן when we raised the objection (taking our argument from ‘the dung’, v. supra), it was before R. N. had given his opinion; a. fr.—Deriv. אִרְיָא.
ארי
- , v. ארר) [to create a gap,] to pluck, esp. figs. Shebi. I, 2 הָאוֹרֶה וכ׳ the gatherer and his basket. B. Mets. 89ᵇ day laborers שהיו אוֹרִין בתאנים Ar. (ed. עודר׳; v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note 300) engaged in picking figs. Y. B. Bath. V, 15ᵃ bot.; a. fr.—Num. R. s. 20 Tanḥ. Bal. 4 (homiletic etymology of arah, Num. XXII, 6). e.g. Numbers 22:6
אֲרִי II
- , v. preced.) [the light-colored]
- 1. lion. B. Kam. 16ᵇ א׳ תרבות a tamed lion; a. fr.—Transf. brave man; distinguished scholar (opp. שועל). Yeb. 122ᵇ. Kidd. 48ᵇ; Snh. 8ᵇ. Gitt. 83ᵇ; Y. ib. IX, 50ᵃ אין משיבין את הא׳ וכ׳ you must not argue against a lion (scholar) after he is dead. B. Kam. 117ᵃ; a. fr.—Pl. אֲרָיוֹת.—זנב לא׳ a tail to lions, i.e. the least among the great (opp. head to foxes). Ab. IV, 15; Y. Snh. IV, 22ᵇ bot.—Ḥull. 3ᵇ, a. fr. גירי א׳, v. גֵּר.—[Gen. R. s. 28 א׳ גסטריות, v. גַּסְטְרָא.]
- 2. Leo, Lion the fifth sign of the Zodiac (corresp. to the month of Ab). Yalk. Ex. 418. Pesik. Dibré p. 116ᵃ; Pesik. R. s. 27 (28, p. 133ᵇ, ed. Fr.); v. אֲרִיאֵל.
- 3. homiletic surname of the Lord, Israel &c. Pesik. l. c.; Pesik. R. l. c.; Yalk. Jer. 259, v. אֲרִיאֵל.
אֲרִי
- Targ. Num. XXIV, 9; a. fr.—B. Mets. 101ᵇ, a. e., v. אֲרב. Ned. 62ᵇ לאברוחי א׳ to drive the lion off, i.e. to get rid of the tax-collector.—Shebu. 22ᵇ, a. fr. א׳ הוא דרביע עלה a lion lies on it, i.e. it is unavailable because it is forbidden.—Ab. Zar. 31ᵇ, a. e. בר א׳ son of a lion (of a great man).—Ḥull. 59ᵇ the tiger is א׳ דבי עילאי the lion of the forest of Ilai (v. Schorr He-Ḥaluts VII, 32; cmp. Koh. Angelol. p. 103).—Pl. אַרְיָוָתָא, אַרְיָוָן. Targ. I Chron. XI, 22; a. fr.— Lam. R. to I, 9) א׳ דאורייתא the lions of the Law (scholars). Y. Shebi. IX, 39ᵃ top. Y. Sabb. I, 4ᵃ top מעלי רישא בין א׳ to put one’s head between lions, i.e. to argue against the opinions of great men. [Yalk. Num. 771 גבתא דא׳, v. אֲרִיחַ.]
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 53 distinct written forms H738 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| אֲרָי֔וֹת | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | 1 Kings 10:19 | 5 |
| הָ/אַרְיֵ֖ה | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Ecclesiastes 9:4 | 5 |
| אַרְיֵה֙ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Amos 3:4 | 4 |
| הָ/אֲרִ֛י | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Amos 3:12 | 4 |
| אֲרָי֖וֹת | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Ezekiel 19:2 | 3 |
| אַרְיֵ֑ה | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Deuteronomy 33:22 | 3 |
| אַרְיֵ֔ה | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Ezekiel 10:14 | 3 |
| כְּ/אַרְיֵ֣ה | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Hosea 11:10 | 3 |
| אֲרָי֣וֹת | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | 1 Kings 7:36 | 2 |
| אַרְיֵ֤ה | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Ezekiel 1:10 | 2 |
| הָ/אַרְיֵ֑ה | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Kings 20:36 | 2 |
| הָֽ/אֲרִי֙ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Samuel 17:34 | 2 |
| וְ/הָ֣/אַרְיֵ֔ה | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Kings 13:24 | 2 |
| כְּ/אַרְיֵ֞ה | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Jeremiah 49:19 | 2 |
| אֲ֝רִ֗י | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Proverbs 26:13 | 1 |
| אֲרִ֖י | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Lamentations 3:10 | 1 |
| אֲרִ֣י | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Proverbs 22:13 | 1 |
| אֲרִי | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Proverbs 28:15 | 1 |
| אֲרָי֗וֹת | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | 2 Chronicles 9:19 | 1 |
| אֲרָי֤וֹת | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | 1 Kings 7:29 | 1 |
| אֲרָיִ֗ים | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | 1 Kings 10:20 | 1 |
| אֲרָיֽוֹת | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Jeremiah 51:38 | 1 |
| אַ֝רְיֵ֗ה | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Psalms 22:13 | 1 |
| אַ֭רְיֵה | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Job 4:10 | 1 |
| אַרְיֵ֖ה | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Nahum 2:11 | 1 |
| אַרְיֵ֗ה | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Isaiah 35:9 | 1 |
| אַרְיֵ֛ה | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Kings 13:24 | 1 |
| אַרְיֵ֜ה | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Jeremiah 5:6 | 1 |
| אַרְיֵ֥ה | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Amos 3:8 | 1 |
| אַרְיֵ֨ה | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Nahum 2:11 | 1 |
| אריה | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Lamentations 3:10 | 1 |
| ה/אריה | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 2 Samuel 23:20 | 1 |
| הָ/אֲרִ֔י | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Amos 5:19 | 1 |
| הָ/אֲרָי֗וֹת | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | 2 Kings 17:26 | 1 |
| הָ/אַרְיֵ֨ה | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Isaiah 31:4 | 1 |
| הָ֣/אֲרָי֔וֹת | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | 2 Kings 17:25 | 1 |
| הָ֣/אַרְיֵ֔ה | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Kings 13:25 | 1 |
| הָֽ/אַרְיֵה֙ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Kings 13:28 | 1 |
| וְ/אַרְיֵ֖ה | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Isaiah 11:7 | 1 |
| וְ/אַרְיֵה֙ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Isaiah 65:25 | 1 |
| וְ/כַ/אֲרִ֖י | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Numbers 23:24 | 1 |
| כְּ/אַרְיֵ֛ה | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Genesis 49:9 | 1 |
| כְּ/אַרְיֵ֥ה | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Jeremiah 2:30 | 1 |
| כְּ/אַרְיֵ֬ה | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Psalms 10:9 | 1 |
| כְּ/אַרְיֵה֙ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Micah 5:8 | 1 |
| כְּ֭/אַרְיֵה | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Psalms 17:12 | 1 |
| כַּ/אֲרִ֛י | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Numbers 24:9 | 1 |
| כַּ/אֲרִ֥י | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Ezekiel 22:25 | 1 |
| כָּֽ/אֲרִ֔י | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Isaiah 38:13 | 1 |
| לַ/אֲרָי֣וֹת | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | 1 Kings 7:29 | 1 |
| לָ/אַרְיֵ֗ה | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Kings 13:26 | 1 |
| מֵ/אֲרִ֑י | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Judges 14:18 | 1 |
| מֵ/אֲרָי֖וֹת | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | 2 Samuel 1:23 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H738, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
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Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 8 — not the complete family. 2 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 61 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 71 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Genesis 49:9
- Numbers 23:24
- Deuteronomy 33:22
- Judges 14:5
- 1 Samuel 17:34
- 2 Samuel 1:23
- 1 Kings 7:29
- 2 Kings 17:25
- 1 Chronicles 11:22
- 2 Chronicles 9:18
- Job 4:10
- Psalms 7:2
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
