zeev · wolf

What it means

zeev (זְאֵב) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “wolf”.

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 wild beast that hunts by night and tears sheep apart.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• wolf ×4
• wolves ×3

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Isaiah×2
• Jeremiah×1
• Ezekiel×1
• Habakkuk×1
• Zephaniah×1

• Genesis 49:27

  Benjamin is a wolf that tears; in the morning he devours the prey, and at evening he divides the spoil.”

• 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 65:25

  The wolf and the lamb will graze together, and the lion like the ox will eat straw; and the serpent, dust will be its bread; they will not do evil or destroy in all my holy mountain,” says YHWH.

• Jeremiah 5:6

  Therefore a lion from the forest will strike them, a wolf of the steppes will devastate them, a leopard is watching over their cities; everyone who goes out of them will be torn to pieces, for their transgressions are many, their apostasies are mighty.

• Ezekiel 22:27

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

• Habakkuk 1:8

  And swifter than leopards are its horses, and fiercer than wolves of the evening; and its horsemen gallop, and its horsemen come from afar; they fly like an eagle hastening to devour.

• Zephaniah 3:3

  Her officials in her midst are roaring lions; her judges, wolves of the evening that do not leave a bone for the morning.