Hebrew noun (masculine) · H7826
שַׁחַל
shachalshakh'-al
lion
7 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7826is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 5spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H7826
a lion (from his characteristic roar)
The King James renders it: (fierce) lion.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
shachal is rendered "lion". It stands 7 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- Three of the uses stand in Job, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Job 4:10The lion may roar, and the fierce lion may growl, yet the teeth of the young lions are broken.
- The Greek text spells it five different ways.
The first use
The lion may roar, and the fierce lion may growl, yet the teeth of the young lions are broken.
Job 4:10שָׁ֑חַל
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- a lion5
- like the lion2
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 7, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
5 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- שַׁ֣חַל2
- שָׁ֑חַל2
- כַשַּׁ֙חַל֙1
- כַּשַּׁ֣חַל1
- שָֽׁחַל׃1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular5HNcmsa
- preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular2HRd/Ncmsa
Job
three uses
The lion may roar, and the fierce lion may growl, yet the teeth of the young lions are broken.
- שָׁ֑חַלshachalnoun · masculine singulartagged: a lion
Should I hold my head high, You would hunt me like a lion, and again display Your power against me.
- כַּשַּׁ֣חַלkashachalpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: like the lion
Proud beasts have never trodden it; no lion has ever prowled over it.
- שָֽׁחַל׃shachalnoun · masculine singulartagged: a lion
Psalms
one use
You will tread on the lion and cobra; you will trample the young lion and serpent.
- שַׁ֣חַלshachalnoun · masculine singulartagged: a lion
Proverbs
one use
The slacker says, “A lion is in the road! A fierce lion roams the public square!”
- שַׁ֣חַלshachalnoun · masculine singulartagged: a lion
Hosea
two uses
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 rescue them.
- כַשַּׁ֙חַל֙khashachalpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: like the lion
So like a lion I will pounce on them; like a leopard I will lurk by the path.
- שָׁ֑חַלshachalnoun · masculine singulartagged: a lion
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.