Concordance

“Lion” in the Bible

118 verses contain “lion” (including word forms) in the Berean Standard Bible.

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Genesis 49:9 Judah is a young lion— my son, you return from the prey. Like a lion he crouches and lies down; like a lioness, who dares to rouse him?
Numbers 23:24 Behold, the people rise like a lioness; they rouse themselves like a lion, not resting until they devour their prey and drink the blood of the slain.”
Numbers 24:9 He crouches, he lies down like a lion; like a lioness, who dares to rouse him? Blessed are those who bless you and cursed are those who curse you.”
Deuteronomy 33:20 Concerning Gad he said: “Blessed is he who enlarges the domain of Gad! He lies down like a lion and tears off an arm or a head.
Deuteronomy 33:22 Concerning Dan he said: “Dan is a lion’s cub, leaping out of Bashan.”
Judges 14:5 Then Samson went down to Timnah with his father and mother and came to the vineyards of Timnah. Suddenly a young lion came roaring at him,
Judges 14:6 …pirit of the LORD came powerfully upon him, and he tore the lion apart with his bare hands as one would tear a young goat. But he did not tell his father or mother what…
Judges 14:8 When Samson returned later to take her, he left the road to see the lion’s carcass, and in it was a swarm of bees, along with their honey.
Judges 14:9 …t he did not tell them that he had taken the honey from the lion’s…
Judges 14:18 …n: “What is sweeter than honey? And what is stronger than a lion?” So he said to them: “If you had not plowed with my heifer, you would not have solved my…
1 Samuel 17:34 David replied, “Your servant has been tending his father’s sheep, and whenever a lion or a bear came and carried off a lamb from the flock,
1 Samuel 17:36 Your servant has killed lions and bears; this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, for he has defied the armies of the living God.”
1 Samuel 17:37 …id added, “The LORD, who delivered me from the claws of the lion and the bear, will deliver me from the hand of this Philistine.” “Go,” said Saul, “and may the LORD be…
2 Samuel 1:23 Saul and Jonathan, beloved and delightful in life, were not divided in death. They were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions.
2 Samuel 17:10 Then even the most valiant soldier with the heart of a lion will melt with fear, because all Israel knows that your father is a mighty man who has valiant men with him.
2 Samuel 23:20 …ab, and on a snowy day he went down into a pit and killed a…
1 Kings 7:29 and on the panels between the uprights were lions, oxen, and cherubim. On the uprights was a pedestal above, and below the lions and oxen were wreaths of beveled work.
1 Kings 7:36 He engraved cherubim, lions, and palm trees on the surfaces of the supports and panels, wherever each had space, with wreaths all around.
1 Kings 10:19 The throne had six steps, and its back had a rounded top. There were armrests on both sides of the seat, with a lion standing beside each armrest.
1 Kings 10:20 Twelve lions stood on the six steps, one at either end of each step. Nothing like this had ever been made for any kingdom.
1 Kings 13:24 As he went on his way, a lion met him on the road and killed him, and his body was left lying in the road, with the donkey and the lion standing beside it.
1 Kings 13:25 … men passing by who saw the body lying in the road with the lion standing beside it, and they went and reported this in the city where the old prophet…
1 Kings 13:26 …nd of the LORD. Therefore the LORD has delivered him to the lion, and it has mauled him and killed him, according to the word that the LORD had spoken to…
1 Kings 13:28 and he went and found the body lying in the road, with the donkey and the lion standing beside it. The lion had not eaten the body or mauled the donkey.
1 Kings 20:36 …eyed the voice of the LORD, as soon as you depart from me a lion will kill you.” And when he left, a lion found him and killed…
2 Kings 17:25 Now when the settlers first lived there, they did not worship the LORD, so He sent lions among them, which killed some of them.
2 Kings 17:26 …ements of the God of the land. Because of this, He has sent lions among them, which are indeed killing them…
1 Chronicles 11:22 …ab, and on a snowy day he went down into a pit and killed a…
1 Chronicles 12:8 …th the shield and spear, whose faces were like the faces of lions and who were as swift as gazelles on the…
2 Chronicles 9:18 The throne had six steps, and a footstool of gold was attached to it. There were armrests on both sides of the seat, with a lion standing beside each armrest.
2 Chronicles 9:19 Twelve lions stood on the six steps, one at either end of each step. Nothing like this had ever been made for any kingdom.
Job 4:10 The lion may roar, and the fierce lion may growl, yet the teeth of the young lions are broken.
Job 4:11 The old lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.
Job 10:16 Should I hold my head high, You would hunt me like a lion, and again display Your power against me.
Job 28:8 Proud beasts have never trodden it; no lion has ever prowled over it.
Job 38:39 Can you hunt the prey for a lioness or satisfy the hunger of young lions
Psalms 7:2 or they will shred my soul like a lion and tear me to pieces with no one to rescue me.
Psalms 10:9 He lies in wait like a lion in a thicket; he lurks to seize the oppressed; he catches the lowly in his net.
Psalms 17:12 like a lion greedy for prey, like a young lion lurking in ambush.
Psalms 22:13 They open their jaws against me like lions that roar and maul.
Psalms 22:21 Save me from the mouth of the lion; at the horns of the wild oxen You have answered me!
Psalms 34:10 Young lions go lacking and hungry, but those who seek the LORD lack no good thing.
Psalms 35:17 How long, O Lord, will You look on? Rescue my soul from their ravages, my precious life from these lions.
Psalms 57:4 My soul is among the lions; I lie down with ravenous beasts— with men whose teeth are spears and arrows, whose tongues are sharp swords.
Psalms 58:6 O God, shatter their teeth in their mouths; O LORD, tear out the fangs of the lions.
Psalms 91:13 You will tread on the lion and cobra; you will trample the young lion and serpent.
Psalms 104:21 The young lions roar for their prey and seek their food from God.
Proverbs 19:12 A king’s rage is like the roar of a lion, but his favor is like dew on the grass.
Proverbs 20:2 The terror of a king is like the roar of a lion; whoever provokes him forfeits his own life.
Proverbs 22:13 The slacker says, “There is a lion outside! I will be slain in the streets!”
Proverbs 26:13 The slacker says, “A lion is in the road! A fierce lion roams the public square!”
Proverbs 28:1 The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are as bold as a lion.
Proverbs 28:15 Like a roaring lion or a charging bear is a wicked ruler over a helpless people.
Proverbs 30:30 a lion, mighty among beasts, refusing to retreat before anything;
Ecclesiastes 9:4 There is hope, however, for anyone who is among the living; for even a live dog is better than a dead lion.
Song of Solomon 4:8 … from the summits of Senir and Hermon, from the dens of the lions, from the mountains of the…
Isaiah 5:29 Their roaring is like that of a lion; they roar like young lions. They growl and seize their prey; they carry it away from deliverance.
Isaiah 11:6 The wolf will live with the lamb, and the leopard will lie down with the goat; the calf and young lion and fatling will be together, and a little child will lead them.
Isaiah 11:7 The cow will graze with the bear, their young will lie down together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox.
Isaiah 15:9 The waters of Dimon are full of blood, but I will bring more upon Dimon— a lion upon the fugitives of Moab and upon the remnant of the land.
Isaiah 30:6 …ev: Through a land of hardship and distress, of lioness and lion, of viper and flying serpent, they carry their wealth on the backs of donkeys and their treasures on the…
Isaiah 31:4 For this is what the LORD has said to me: “Like a lion roaring or a young lion over its prey— and though a band of shepherds is called out against it, it is not…
Isaiah 35:9 No lion will be there, and no vicious beast will go up on it. Such will not be found there, but the redeemed will walk upon it.
Isaiah 38:13 I composed myself until the morning. Like a lion He breaks all my bones; from day until night You make an end of me.
Isaiah 65:25 The wolf and the lamb will feed together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox, but the food of the serpent will be dust. They will neither harm nor destroy on all My…
Jeremiah 2:15 The young lions have roared at him; they have growled with a loud voice. They have laid waste his land; his cities lie in ruins, without inhabitant.
Jeremiah 2:30 “I have struck your sons in vain; they accepted no discipline. Your own sword has devoured your prophets like a voracious lion.”
Jeremiah 4:7 A lion has gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations has set out. He has left his lair to lay waste your land. Your cities will be reduced to ruins and lie…
Jeremiah 5:6 Therefore a lion from the forest will strike them down, a wolf from the desert will ravage them. A leopard will lie in wait near their cities, and everyone who ventures…
Jeremiah 12:8 My inheritance has become to Me like a lion in the forest. She has roared against Me; therefore I hate her.
Jeremiah 25:38 He has left His den like a lion, for their land has been made a desolation by the sword of the oppressor, and because of the fierce anger of the LORD.
Jeremiah 49:19 Behold, one will come up like a lion from the thickets of the Jordan to the watered pasture. For in an instant I will chase Edom from her land. Who is the chosen one I…
Jeremiah 50:17 Israel is a scattered flock, chased away by lions. The first to devour him was the king of Assyria; the last to crush his bones was Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.”
Jeremiah 50:44 Behold, one will come up like a lion from the thickets of the Jordan to the watered pasture. For in an instant I will chase Babylon from her land. Who is the chosen one…
Jeremiah 51:38 They will roar together like young lions; they will growl like lion cubs.
Lamentations 3:10 He is a bear lying in wait, a lion hiding in ambush.
Ezekiel 1:10 …s was that of a man, and each of the four had the face of a lion on the right side, the face of an ox on the left side, and also the face of an…
Ezekiel 10:14 Each of the cherubim had four faces: the first face was that of a cherub, the second that of a man, the third that of a lion, and the fourth that of an eagle.
Ezekiel 19:2 and say: ‘What was your mother? A lioness among the lions! She lay down among the young lions; she reared her cubs.
Ezekiel 19:3 She brought up one of her cubs, and he became a young lion. After learning to tear his prey, he devoured men.
Ezekiel 19:5 When she saw that she had waited in vain, that her hope was lost, she took another of her cubs and made him a young lion.
Ezekiel 19:6 He prowled among the lions, and became a young lion. After learning to tear his prey, he devoured men.
Ezekiel 22:25 …he conspiracy of the princes in her midst is like a roaring lion tearing its prey. They devour the people, seize the treasures and precious things, and multiply the…
Ezekiel 32:2 …t for Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him: ‘You are like a lion among the nations; you are like a monster in the seas. You thrash about in your rivers, churning up the…
Ezekiel 41:19 …s toward the palm tree on one side, and the face of a young lion was toward the palm tree on the other side. They were carved all the way around the…
Daniel 6:7 …d or man except you, O king, will be thrown into the den of…
Daniel 6:12 …d or man except you, O king, will be thrown into the den of lions?” The king replied, “According to the law of the Medes and Persians the order stands, and it cannot be…
Daniel 6:16 So the king gave the order, and they brought Daniel and threw him into the den of lions. The king said to Daniel, “May your God, whom you serve continually, deliver you!”
Daniel 6:19 At the first light of dawn, the king got up and hurried to the den of lions.
Daniel 6:20 …om you serve continually, been able to deliver you from the…
Daniel 6:22 My God sent His angel and shut the mouths of the lions. They have not hurt me, for I was found innocent in His sight, and I have done no wrong against you, O king.”
Daniel 6:24 …sely accused Daniel were brought and thrown into the den of lions—they and their children and wives. And before they had reached the bottom of the den, the lions…
Daniel 6:27 He delivers and rescues; He performs signs and wonders in the heavens and on the earth, for He has rescued Daniel from the power of the lions.”
Daniel 7:4 The first beast was like a lion, and it had the wings of an eagle. I watched until its wings were torn off and it was lifted up from the ground and made to stand on two…
Hosea 5:14 For I am like a lion to Ephraim and like a young lion to the house of Judah. I, even I, will tear them to pieces and then go away. I will carry them off where no one can…
Hosea 11:10 They will walk after the LORD; He will roar like a lion. When He roars, His children will come trembling from the west.
Hosea 13:7 So like a lion I will pounce on them; like a leopard I will lurk by the path.
Hosea 13:8 Like a bear robbed of her cubs I will attack them, and I will tear open their chests. There I will devour them like a lion, like a wild beast would tear them apart.
Joel 1:6 For a nation has invaded My land, powerful and without number; its teeth are the teeth of a lion, and its fangs are the fangs of a lioness.
Amos 3:4 Does a lion roar in the forest when he has no prey? Does a young lion growl in his den if he has caught nothing?
Amos 3:8 The lion has roared— who will not fear? The Lord GOD has spoken— who will not prophesy?
Amos 3:12 … LORD says: “As the shepherd snatches from the mouth of the lion two legs or a piece of an ear, so the Israelites dwelling in Samaria will be rescued having just the…
Amos 5:19 It will be like a man who flees from a lion, only to encounter a bear, or who enters his house and rests his hand against the wall, only to be bitten by a snake.
Micah 5:8 … be among the nations, in the midst of many peoples, like a lion among the beasts of the forest, like a young lion among flocks of sheep, which tramples and tears as it…
Nahum 2:11 Where is the lions’ lair or the feeding ground of the young lions, where the lion and lioness prowled with their cubs, with nothing to frighten them away?
Nahum 2:12 The lion mauled enough for its cubs and strangled prey for the lioness. It filled its dens with the kill, and its lairs with mauled prey.
Nahum 2:13 … chariots up in smoke, and the sword will devour your young lions. I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the voices of your messengers will no longer be…
Zephaniah 3:3 Her princes are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves, leaving nothing for the morning.
Zechariah 11:3 Listen to the wailing of the shepherds,for their glory is in ruins.Listen to the roaring of the young lions,for the thickets of the Jordan are destroyed.
2 Timothy 4:17 …les would hear it. So I was delivered from the mouth of the…
Hebrews 11:33 who through faith conquered kingdoms, administered justice, and gained what was promised; who shut the mouths of lions,
1 Peter 5:8 Be sober-minded and alert. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.
Revelation 4:7 The first living creature was like a lion, the second like a calf, the third had a face like a man, and the fourth was like an eagle in flight.
Revelation 5:5 Then one of the elders said to me, “Do not weep! Behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has triumphed to open the scroll and its seven seals.”
Revelation 9:8 They had hair like that of women, and teeth like those of lions.
Revelation 9:17 … and sulfur. The heads of the horses were like the heads of lions, and out of their mouths proceeded fire, smoke, and…
Revelation 10:3 Then he cried out in a loud voice like the roar of a lion. And when he cried out, the seven thunders sounded their voices.
Revelation 13:2 The beast I saw was like a leopard, with the feet of a bear and the mouth of a lion. And the dragon gave the beast his power and his throne and great authority.