Verse 10
10. The lion In early times the lion was common in Syria. That some places should have taken their name from the lion, as Lebaoth ( lionesses) and Beth Lebaoth, shows how numerous must have been this terrible beast of prey. The exploits of Samson and David will be borne in mind, which were quite paralleled by that of Lysimachus, who, hunting in Syria, single handed killed a large lion, but not until the beast had torn his shoulder to the bone. Q. Curtius, viii, chap. 1. The lion has been honoured in Oriental languages by a great variety of names. If we may credit Golius, there are more than five hundred appropriated to him in the Arabic. ( Lex. under Asamah.) Eliphaz beautifies his address by using no less than five of the seven different names which rabbinical writers have discovered in the Old Testament as belonging to this animal. He mentions first the aryeh, the general name for the lion, “so called from his rending and mangling his prey.” Gesenius.
The fierce lion The shahhal, the roarer, ( Furst,) is perhaps the maneless lion.
The young lions Kephir, and on account of youthful vigour most ferocious, and exceedingly bloodthirsty. Gesenius. “The young lions are mentioned along with the old in order to exemplify the destruction of the haughty sinner with his entire household.” Schlottmann.
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