noun · masculine
leontos
Strong’sG3023
a lion
stem leont-9 times in the New Testamentin 4 of 27 books4 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
λέων, -οντος, ὁ,
[in LXX chiefly for אֲרִי, אַרְיֵה, also for כְּפִיר, etc.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3023 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidleh-ohn'
a "lion"
Froma primary word;
King Jameslion.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
Epic dialect dative plural λείουσι Refs 8th c.BC+:—lion, ὠμοφάγοι λ. Il.[same place]; αἴθων 18.161; χαροποί Refs 8th c.BC+; compare λίς: metaphorically, of Artemis, σὲ λέοντα γυναιξὶ Ζεὺς θῆκεν Zeus made thee a lion toward women (because she was supposed to cause their sudden death), Refs 8th c.BC+; used of savage persons, Refs 4th c.BC+; but also, of brave men, Refs 5th c.BC+; of a baby, Refs 5th c.BC+
2 “Leo”, the sign in the Zodiac, Refs 4th c.BC+
3 ={λεοντῆ}, lion's skin, Refs 2nd c.AD+
4 as an ornament, Refs 2nd c.AD+
II a kind of crab, Refs 3rd c.BC+
III a kind of serpent, Refs 2nd c.BC+
IV ={λεοντίασις}, Refs 2nd c.AD+
V a kind of dance, Refs 2nd c.AD+
VI title of grade of initiates in the mysteries of Mithras, Refs 3rd c.AD+
VII a sea-monster, Refs 2nd c.AD+
VIII ={ὀροβάγχη}, Refs 1st c.AD+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | leontos3×λέων | leontois |
| object accusative | leonton | leontoin |
| direct address vocative | leontor | leontoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | leontou2×λέοντος | leontoiu3×λεόντων |
| to, for dative | leonto1×λέοντι | leontoi |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
leonto is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
9 occurrences, every one of them listed
leontos“lion”subjectnominative singular3×
1 Peter 5:8… grēgoravar. tos antidikos vu diabolos hōs leontos ōruorōntos peripatatō zētarōntos tinon katapinara;… devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.
Revelation 5:5… mi; Mē klaiasōr; idou nikata tos leontos tos ek tau fulau Ioudou, tas …… me, “Do not weep! Behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the …
Revelation 10:3kai krazata fōna mega hōsper leontos mukotō. kai hote krazata, lalala tais …… voice like the roar of a lion. And when he cried out, the …
leontou“lion”of, belonging togenitive singular2×
2 Timothy 4:17“lion’s”… teim ethneim, kai ruima ek stomeu leontou.… and all the Gentiles would hear it. So I was delivered from the mouth of the …
Revelation 13:2… kai tem stomem auteu hōs stomem leontou. kai dōata aute tos drakontos tan …… bear and the mouth of a lion. And the dragon gave the beast …
leonto“lion”to, fordative singular1×
Revelation 4:7kai tem zōem tem prōtem homoiem leonto, kai tem deuterem zōem homoiem moscho, …… first living creature was like a lion, the second like a calf, the …
leontoiu“lions”of, belonging togenitive plural3×
Hebrews 11:33… ergazela dikaiosunan, epitunchanala epangeliaiu, frassala stomeim leontoiu,… promised; who shut the mouths of lions,
Revelation 9:8… gunaikaiu, kai tois odontois autaiu hōs leontoiu ale,… women, and teeth like those of lions.
Revelation 9:17… tais kefalais toiu hippoiu hōs kefalais leontoiu, kai ek teiu stomeiu autoiu ekporeuotō …… horses were like the heads of lions, and out of their mouths proceeded …