teref · prey

What it means

teref (טֶרֶף) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “prey”.

The animal a wild beast hunts; food.

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. What the beast hunts and devours.
2. The food prepared in a house for those who live in it.
3. A tender leaf of a growing plant.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• prey ×19
• food ×3
• leaves ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Numbers×1
• Job×4
• Psalms×4
• Proverbs×1
• Isaiah×2
• Ezekiel×5
• Amos×1
• Nahum×3
• Malachi×1

• Genesis 49:9

  A lion’s cub is Judah; from the prey, my son, you have gone up. He crouches, he lies down like a lion, and like a lioness; who dares rouse him?

• Numbers 23:24

  Look, a people rises like a lioness, and like a lion it lifts itself up; it does not lie down until it devours the prey and drinks the blood of the slain.”

• Job 4:11

  The strong lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.

• Job 24:5

  Look, like wild donkeys in the wilderness they go out to their work, seeking prey; the steppe yields them bread for the boys.

• Job 29:17

  And I broke the fangs of the unjust, and from his teeth I threw down the prey.

• Job 38:39

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

• Psalms 76:4

  Radiant are you, magnificent, more than the mountains of prey.

• Psalms 104:21

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

• Psalms 111:5

  Food he has given to those who fear him; he remembers forever his covenant.

• Psalms 124:6

  Blessed be YHWH, who has not given us as prey to their teeth.

• Proverbs 31:15

  And she rises while it is still night, and gives food to her household, and a portion to her maidservants.

• 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 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.

• Ezekiel 17:9

  Say, ‘Thus says Adonai YHWH: Will it prosper? Will he not tear out its roots and strip off its fruit, so that it withers? All the leaves of its sprouting will wither; and not with a great arm nor with many people will it take to pull it up from its roots.

• 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 19:6

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

• Ezekiel 22:25

  A conspiracy of her prophets is in her midst, like a lion roaring, tearing prey; they have devoured souls; they take wealth and precious things; they have multiplied her widows in her midst.

• Ezekiel 22:27

  Her princes in her midst are like wolves tearing prey, to shed blood, to destroy souls, to get gain.

• 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?

• Nahum 2:12

  The lion tore enough for his cubs and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his caves with prey and his dens with torn flesh.

• 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.”

• Nahum 3:1

  Woe to the city of blood! All of it is full of lies and plunder; the prey does not depart.

• Malachi 3:10

  Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house; and test me, please, in this, says YHWH Tsevaot, if I will not open for you the floodgates of the heavens and pour out on you blessing until there is no more need.