כְּפִיר noun masculine young lion; — ׳כ [Judg 14:5] + 16 t.; plural כְּפִרִים [Jer 2:15] + 3 t.; כְּפִירִים [Zech 11:3] + 7 t.; suffix כְּפִירַיִךְ [Nah 2:14] כְּפִירֶיהָ [Ezek 38:13] (Co reads כנעניה); — literal אֲרָיוֺת ׳כ [Judg 14:5] young lion of lions; [Amos 3:4]; [Ps 17:12]. It differs from whelp גּוּר [Ezek 19:2]; [Ezek 19:3] as old enough to hunt its prey, [Jer 25:38]; [Isa 11:6]; [Zech 11:3]; [Ps 104:21] in simile of roar of hostile army [Isa 5:29] ׅ || (לָבִיא compare [Jer 51:38] ׅ || (גּוֺרֵי אריות; sim of ׳י's invincible might [Isa 31:4] ׅ || (אַרְיֵה; of Israel among the nations, [Mic 5:7] of Assyr. princes [Nah 2:12] of prince of Israel [Ezek 19:5]; [Ezek 19:6] other cases are: || לָבִיא [Job 38:39] || שַׁחַל [Hos 5:14]; [Ps 91:13]; [Job 4:10] of bloodthirsty enemies [Ps 34:11]; [Ps 35:17]; [Ps 58:7]; [Jer 2:15] גוים ׳כ [Ezek 32:2], of young warriors [Nah 2:14]; [Ezek 38:13] (?; see Co above); righteous compared with, [Prov 28:1] king's wrath like roaring of, [Prov 19:12]; [Prov 20:2] of one of faces of cherubim [Ezek 41:19].
The Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon
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