kefir · young lion, village

What it means

kefir (כְּפִיר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “young lion, village”.

Young lion, already strong and able to hunt. The same form can also mean a village.

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. A young, strong lion.
2. Small unwalled towns of the countryside.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• young lion ×17
• young lions ×14
• villages ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Judges×1
• Nehemiah×1
• Job×2
• Psalms×6
• Proverbs×3
• Isaiah×3
• Jeremiah×3
• Ezekiel×7
• Hosea×1
• Amos×1
• Micah×1
• Nahum×2
• Zechariah×1

• Judges 14:5

  Samson went down, and his father and his mother, to Timnah, and they came as far as the vineyards of Timnah; and look, a young lion came roaring to meet him.

• Nehemiah 6:2

  Sanballat and Geshem sent to me, saying, “Come, and let us meet together in the villages in the plain of Ono.” But they were planning to do me harm.

• Job 4:10

  The roaring of the lion and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions are broken.

• Job 38:39

  Can you hunt prey for the lioness, or the appetite of the young lions fill,

• Psalms 17:12

  His likeness is like a lion that longs to tear, and like a young lion sitting in hiding places.

• Psalms 34:10

  Young lions grow poor and go hungry, but those who seek YHWH will not lack any good thing.

• Psalms 35:17

  Adonai, how long will you look on? Bring back my soul from their ravages, from the young lions my only one.

• Psalms 58:6

  Elohim, tear down their teeth in their mouth; the molars of the young lions break, YHWH.

• Psalms 91:13

  On the fierce lion and the viper you will tread; you will trample the young lion and the serpent.

• Psalms 104:21

  The young lions roar for prey, and to seek from El their food.

• Proverbs 19:12

  Like the roar of a young lion is the rage of a king, but like dew on the grass is his favor.

• Proverbs 20:2

  Like the roar of a young lion is the terror of a king; whoever angers him sins against his soul.

• Proverbs 28:1

  They flee —and there is no one pursuing— the wicked, but the righteous like a young lion are confident.

• Isaiah 5:29

  Its roar is like a lioness; it roars like young lions; it growls and seizes prey and carries it off to safety, and there is no one to rescue.

• Isaiah 11:6

  And the wolf will dwell with the lamb, and the leopard will lie down with the young goat, and the calf and the young lion and the fattened animal together, and a little boy will lead them.

• Isaiah 31:4

  For thus YHWH said to me: “As the lion growls, and the young lion, over its prey, when a full band of shepherds is called out against it, at their voice it is not terrified, and at their tumult it is not abashed, so YHWH Tsevaot will come down to wage war upon Mount Zion and upon its hill.

• Jeremiah 2:15

  Against him young lions roar, they have raised their voice, and they have made his land a horror; his cities are burned, without inhabitant.

• Jeremiah 25:38

  Like a young lion he has left his lair; for their land has become a horror before the burning of the oppressor, and before his burning anger.

• Jeremiah 51:38

  Together like young lions they roar; they growl like the cubs of lions.

• Ezekiel 19:2

  and say, “What a lioness was your mother among lions! She lay down in the midst of young lions; she reared her cubs.

• Ezekiel 19:3

  And she brought up one of her cubs; he became a young lion, and he learned to tear prey; he devoured human beings.

• Ezekiel 19:5

  And she saw that she had waited, that her hope was lost; and she took another of her cubs; she made him a young lion.

• Ezekiel 19:6

  And he walked about among the lions; he became a young lion, and he learned to tear prey; he devoured human beings.

• Ezekiel 32:2

  “Son of man, raise a dirge over Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and say to him, ‘A young lion of the nations you were compared to, and you are like the sea monster in the seas; and you burst forth in your rivers, and muddied the waters with your feet, and fouled their rivers.

• Ezekiel 38:13

  Sheba and Dedan and the merchants of Tarshish and all its young lions will say to you, “Is it to take spoil that you come? Is it to seize plunder that you have assembled your assembly, to carry away silver and gold, to take livestock and goods, to take great spoil?”’

• Ezekiel 41:19

  and a human face toward the palm tree on this side, and the face of a young lion toward the palm tree on that side; made on all the house all around.

• Hosea 5:14

  For I will be like a fierce lion to Ephraim, and like a young lion to the house of Judah; I, I will tear and go away; I will carry off, and there will be no one to rescue.

• Amos 3:4

  Does a lion roar in the forest when he has no prey? Does a young lion utter his voice from his den unless he has caught something?

• Micah 5:8

  And the remnant of Jacob will be among the nations, in the midst of many peoples, like a lion among the beasts of the forest, like a young lion among flocks of sheep, which, if it passes through, tramples and tears, and there is no one to deliver.

• Nahum 2:11

  Where is the den of the lions and the feeding place of the young lions, where the lion walked, the lioness, there the lion’s cub, and there was no one to make them afraid?

• Nahum 2:13

  “Look, I am against you, declares YHWH Tsevaot, and I will burn in smoke her chariots, and the sword will devour your young lions, and I will cut off from the earth your prey, and no longer will be heard the voice of your messengers.”

• Zechariah 11:3

  The sound of the wailing of the shepherds, for their splendor has been devastated; the sound of the roaring of young lions, for the thicket of the Jordan has been devastated.