arye · lion

What it means

arye (אַרְיֵה) is an Aramaic word of the Bible that means “lion”.

(Aramaic). The same word as the Hebrew "arye".

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. The fierce cat that Babylon kept in a pit for punishment.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• lions ×9
• was like a lion ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Daniel 6:7

  All the supervisors of the kingdom, the prefects and the satraps, the advisers and the governors, have agreed to establish a royal statute and to enforce a prohibition, that whoever makes a request of any god or man for thirty days, except of you, O king, shall be thrown into the den of the lions.

• Daniel 6:12

  Then they came near and said before the king concerning the prohibition of the king, “Did you not sign a prohibition, that any man who makes a request of any god or man for thirty days, except of you, O king, shall be thrown into the den of the lions?” The king answered and said, “The matter is certain, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which cannot be revoked.”

• Daniel 6:16

  Then the king gave the word, and they brought Daniel and threw him into the den of the lions. The king answered and said to Daniel, “Your Elah, whom you serve continually, he will deliver you.”

• Daniel 6:19

  Then the king rose at dawn, at first light, and went in haste to the den of the lions.

• Daniel 6:20

  And as he came near to the den, to Daniel he cried out with an anguished voice. The king answered and said to Daniel, “Daniel, servant of the living Elah, has your Elah, whom you serve continually, been able to deliver you from the lions?”

• Daniel 6:22

  My Elah sent his angel and shut the mouth of the lions, and they have not harmed me, because before him innocence was found in me; and also before you, O king, I have done no harm.”

• Daniel 6:24

  And the king gave the word, and they brought those men who had accused Daniel, and into the den of the lions they threw them, their children, and their wives; and they had not reached the bottom of the den before the lions overpowered them and crushed all their bones.

• Daniel 6:27

  He delivers and rescues, and he works signs and wonders in the heavens and on the earth, he who delivered Daniel from the power of the lions.”

• Daniel 7:4

  The first was like a lion and had wings of an eagle. I was looking until its wings were plucked off, and it was lifted up from the ground and made to stand on feet like a man, and the heart of a man was given to it.

And 1 more times.