STRONGS NUMBER H7826


Word Summary
shachal: a lion
Original Word: שַׁחַל
Transliteration: shachal
Phonetic Spelling: (shakh'-al)
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: a lion
Meaning: a lion
Strong's Concordance
fierce lion

From an unused root probably meaning to roar; a lion (from his characteristic roar) -- (fierce) lion.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H7826. shachal

שַׁ֫חַלnoun masculine lion (poetry); — absolute ׳שׁHosea 5:14 +, שָׁ֑חַלJob 4:10 +; — lion, simile of ׳י‎, toward Israel Hosea 5:14 ("" כְּפִיר‎), 13:7 ("" נָמֵר‎); of guilty men Job 4:10 ("" כְּפִירִים אַרְיֵה,‎); figurative of foes Psalm 91:13 ("" כְּפִיר‎) lion, as hunted 10:16 (in simile); literal Job 28:8; Proverbs 26:13.