# טֶרֶף (teref)

Israeli respelling: te-ref. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H2964. 23 Old Testament occurrences.

something torn, i.e. a fragment, e.g. a fresh leaf, prey, food

King James renderings: leaf, meat, prey, spoil.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/teref-h2964

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 49:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/49/9) — Judah is a lion’s whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rous…
- [Numbers 23:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/23/24) — Behold, the people shall rise up as a great lion, and lift up himself as a young lion: he shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, and…
- [Job 4:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/4/11) — The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion’s whelps are scattered abroad.
- [Job 24:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/24/5) — Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for…
- [Job 29:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/29/17) — And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.
- [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 76:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/76/4) — Thou art more glorious and excellent than the mountains of prey.
- [Psalms 104:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/104/21) — The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat from God.
- [Psalms 111:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/111/5) — He hath given meat unto them that fear him: he will ever be mindful of his covenant.
- [Psalms 124:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/124/6) — Blessed be the LORD, who hath not given us as a prey to their teeth.
- [Proverbs 31:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/31/15) — She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens.
- [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 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…
- [Ezekiel 17:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/17/9) — Say thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Shall it prosper? shall he not pull up the roots thereof, and cut off the fruit thereof, that it wither?…
- [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 19:6](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 22:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/22/25) — There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; they have take…
- [Ezekiel 22:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/22/27) — Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.
- [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?
- [Nahum 2:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nahum/2/12) — The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his holes with prey, and his dens with ravin.
- [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:…
- [Nahum 3:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nahum/3/1) — Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; the prey departeth not;
- [Malachi 3:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/malachi/3/10) — Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I…