# H3715 כְּפִיר

כְּפִיר (kᵉphîyr), Strong’s H3715: a village (as covered in by walls); also a young lion (perhaps as covered with a mane) KJV: (young) lion, village. Compare H3723 (כָּפָר).. Occurs 32 times.

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*kᵉphîyr* — a village (as covered in by walls); also a young lion (perhaps as covered with a mane)

KJV: (young) lion, village. Compare H3723 (כָּפָר).

Derived from [כָּפַר kâphar](https://besorah.bible/word/H3722) (to cover)

Occurs 32 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- כְּפִיר n.m. young lion
- כְּפִירִים
- כְּפִירִים Ne 6:2, prob. = foregoing [כְּפִירָה] (𝔊 al. n. appell. = villages).

## Where it occurs
- [Judges 14:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/14?v=5) — Then Samson went down to Timnah with his father and his mother, and came to the vineyards of Timnah; and behold, a…
- [Isaiah 5:29](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/5?v=29) — Their roaring will be like a lioness. They will roar like young lions. Yes, they shall roar, and seize their prey and…
- [Isaiah 11:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/11?v=6) — The wolf will live with the lamb, and the leopard will lie down with the young goat, the calf, the young lion, and the…
- [Isaiah 31:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/31?v=4) — For the LORD says to me, “As the lion and the young lion growling over his prey, if a multitude of shepherds is called…
- [Jeremiah 2:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/2?v=15) — The young lions have roared at him and raised their voices. They have made his land waste. His cities are burned up…
- [Jeremiah 25:38](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/25?v=38) — He has left his covert, as the lion; for their land has become an astonishment because of the fierceness of the…
- [Jeremiah 51:38](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/51?v=38) — They will roar together like young lions. They will growl as lions’ cubs.
- [Ezekiel 19:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ezekiel/19?v=2) — and say, ‘What was your mother? A lioness. She couched among lions, in the middle of the young lions she nourished her…
- [Ezekiel 19:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ezekiel/19?v=3) — She brought up one of her cubs. He became a young lion. He learned to catch the prey. He devoured men.
- [Ezekiel 19:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ezekiel/19?v=5) — “‘Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her cubs, and made him a young…