Strong’s H3918 · Hebrew
לַיִשׁ
layish · lah'-yish
Origin from לוּשׁ (H3888) in the sense of crushing;
Meaning a lion (from his destructive blows)
In the King James Version (old) lion.
In 3 verses of the King James Version
- Job 4:11The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion’s whelps are scattered abroad.
- Proverbs 30:30A lion which is strongest among beasts, and turneth not away for any;
- Isaiah 30:6The burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the young and old lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people that shall not profit them.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.