אֲרִי
ʼărîy · ar-ee'
a lion
Lexicon
Derivation: or (prolonged) []; from H717 (אָרָה) (in the sense of violence);
a lion
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: (young) lion, [phrase] pierce (from the margin).
Letters
- אAlef1
Picture: ox head
- Concrete
- ox · bull · cattle
- Extended
- strength · leader · first · the one in front
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
- יYod10
Picture: arm and closed hand
- Concrete
- hand · arm · work
- Extended
- a deed · to make · to work · to throw or worship
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
strength, the leader › the head, the highest › the hand that works
Strength, the leader of the head, the highest of the hand that works.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of אֲרִי above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
80 occurrences · 80 OT · 0 NT · 52 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- lions9 · 13%
- a lion8 · 12%
- lion6 · 9%
- of the lion6 · 9%
- as a lion5 · 7%
- of a lion4 · 6%
- and the lion4 · 6%
- the lion4 · 6%
- like a lion4 · 6%
- is a lion's2 · 3%
- the lions2 · 3%
- himself as a young lion1 · 1%
- than a lion1 · 1%
- both the lion1 · 1%
- than lions1 · 1%
- were lions1 · 1%
- and beneath the lions1 · 1%
- it, the lion1 · 1%
- him unto the lion1 · 1%
- from me, a lion1 · 1%
- of lions1 · 1%
- me: they pierced1 · 1%
- me from the lion's1 · 1%
- there is a lion1 · 1%
- from the lions1 · 1%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.