What does "Leopard" mean in the Bible?

What does the Bible say about Leopard?

LEOP'ARD (Heb. spotted). In the Bible there Is frequent reference to this fierce animal, which still lurks among the forests of Gilead, the jungles of the Jordan, and more rarely among the thickets of Tabor and Carmel. Jer 13:23. The local names Nimrim, "leopard," and Beth-Nimrah, "house of the leopard" (perhaps) are to be remembered. Near the latter place Tristram saw the fresh footprints of these creatures, "clear and unmistakable, on the moist ooze." It is the habit of the leopard to wait patiently hour after hour that it may pounce upon cattle. Jer 5:6; Hos 13:7. Isa 11:6 alludes to its cruelty, and Dan 7:6 to its power. But it is thought there is reference under the same name in Hab 1:8 to the cheetah, a similar but smaller animal still found in Palestine, the rush of which upon its prey exceeds in swiftness the motion of any other carnivorous animal.

What is the Hebrew word for Leopard?

Where does Leopard appear in the Bible?

Leopard is referenced in 4 verses across 3 books. Every passage below is about this one, not just every verse the word turns up in.

• Hosea 13:7
• Isaiah 11:6
• Jeremiah 5:6
• Jeremiah 13:23

What else appears in these passages?

These turn up in the same passages as Leopard.