# כְּפִיר (kefir) Israeli respelling: ke-fir. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew. Strong’s H3715. 32 Old Testament occurrences. a village (as covered in by walls); also a young lion (perhaps as covered with a mane) King James renderings: (young) lion, village. Compare H3723 (כָּפָר). Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/kefir-h3715 ## Occurrences - [Judges 14:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/14/5) — Then went Samson down, and his father and his mother, to Timnath, and came to the vineyards of Timnath: and, behold, a young lion roared ag… - [Nehemiah 6:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/6/2) — That Sanballat and Geshem sent unto me, saying, Come, let us meet together in some one of the villages in the plain of Ono. But they though… - [Job 4:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/38/39) — Wilt thou hunt the prey for the lion? or fill the appetite of the young lions, - [Psalms 17:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/17/12) — Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places. - [Psalms 34:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/34/10) — The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good thing. - [Psalms 35:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/35/17) — Lord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions. - [Psalms 58:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/58/6) — Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD. - [Psalms 91:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/91/13) — Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet. - [Psalms 104:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/104/21) — The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat from God. - [Proverbs 19:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/19/12) — The king’s wrath is as the roaring of a lion; but his favour is as dew upon the grass. - [Proverbs 20:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/20/2) — The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whoso provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul. - [Proverbs 28:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/28/1) — The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion. - [Isaiah 5:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/5/29) — Their roaring shall be like a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and shall carry it aw… - [Isaiah 11:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/11/6) — The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling toget… - [Isaiah 31:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/31/4) — For thus hath the LORD spoken unto me, Like as the lion and the young lion roaring on his prey, when a multitude of shepherds is called for… - [Jeremiah 2:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/2/15) — The young lions roared upon him, and yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant. - [Jeremiah 25:38](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/25/38) — He hath forsaken his covert, as the lion: for their land is desolate because of the fierceness of the oppressor, and because of his fierce… - [Jeremiah 51:38](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/51/38) — They shall roar together like lions: they shall yell as lions’ whelps. - [Ezekiel 19:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/19/2) — And say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions. - [Ezekiel 19:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/19/3) — And she brought up one of her whelps: it became a young lion, and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men. - [Ezekiel 19:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/19/5) — Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her whelps, and made him a young lion. - [Ezekiel 19:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/19/6) — And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey, and devoured men. - [Ezekiel 32:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/32/2) — Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him, Thou art like a young lion of the nations, and thou art as a… - [Ezekiel 38:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/38/13) — Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions thereof, shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil? hast… - [Ezekiel 41:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/41/19) — So that the face of a man was toward the palm tree on the one side, and the face of a young lion toward the palm tree on the other side: it… - [Hosea 5:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/5/14) — For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah: I, even I, will tear and go away; I will take away, and no… - [Amos 3:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/amos/3/4) — Will a lion roar in the forest, when he hath no prey? will a young lion cry out of his den, if he have taken nothing? - [Micah 5:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/micah/5/8) — And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many people as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion… - [Nahum 2:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nahum/2/11) — Where is the dwelling of the lions, and the feedingplace of the young lions, where the lion, even the old lion, walked, and the lion’s whel… - [Nahum 2:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nahum/2/13) — Behold, I am against thee, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword shall devour thy young lions:… - [Zechariah 11:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zechariah/11/3) — There is a voice of the howling of the shepherds; for their glory is spoiled: a voice of the roaring of young lions; for the pride of Jorda…