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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?

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ASV

Where is the den of the lions, and the feeding-place of the young lions, where the lion and the lioness walked, the lion’s whelp, and none made them afraid?

KJV

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 whelp, and none made them afraid?

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OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
אַיֵּה֙'ai.Yehwhere?H346 →
מְע֣וֹןme.'on[is the] dwelling place ofH4583 →
אֲרָי֔וֹת'a.ra.YotlionsH738 →
וּמִרְעֶ֥הu.mir.'Ehand [is] pastureH4829 →
ה֖וּאhu'itH1931 →
לַכְּפִרִ֑יםla.ke.fi.Rimfor <the> young lionsH3715 →
אֲשֶׁ֣ר'a.SherwhereH834 →
הָלַךְ֩ha.laKhit walkedH1980 →
אַרְיֵ֨ה'ar.YehlionH738 →
לָבִ֥יאla.Vi'lionessH3833 →
שָׁ֛םshamthereH8033 →
גּ֥וּרgurcub ofH1482 →
אַרְיֵ֖ה'ar.YehlionH738 →
וְאֵ֥יןve.'Einand there notH369 →
מַחֲרִֽיד׃ma.cha.Rid[was one who] disturbed [them]H2729 →

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Isaiah 5:29Their roaring is like that of a lion; they roar like young lions. They growl and seize their prey; they carry it away from deliverance.Jeremiah 2:15The 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.Numbers 23:24Behold, 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.”Nahum 3:1Woe to the city of blood, full of lies, full of plunder, never without prey.Jeremiah 50:44Behold, 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 I will appoint for this? For who is like Me, and who can challenge Me? What shepherd can stand against Me?”Jeremiah 4:7A 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 uninhabited.Jeremiah 50:17Israel 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.”Isaiah 31:4For 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 terrified by their shouting or subdued by their clamor—so the LORD of Hosts will come down to do battle on Mount Zion and its heights.Ezekiel 19:2–8and say: ‘What was your mother? A lioness among the lions! She lay down among the young lions; she reared her cubs.Zephaniah 3:3Her princes are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves, leaving nothing for the morning.Genesis 49:9Judah 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?Job 4:10–11The lion may roar, and the fierce lion may growl, yet the teeth of the young lions are broken.Micah 5:6And they will rule the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod with the blade drawn. So He will deliver us when Assyria invades our land and marches into our borders.

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