KJV dictionary & concordance
Present-participial or verbal-noun form of roar, meaning to make such a sound, especially in distress or fierceness.
Definition sources
First occurrence: Job 4:10
Complete exact-word concordance
The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.
The roaring of the Lyon, and the voice of the fierce Lyon, and the teeth of the yong Lyons are broken.
MY God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?
¶ My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken mee? Why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?
They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.
They gaped vpon me with their mouthes, as a rauening and a roaring Lyon.
1611 marginal noteHeb. opened their mouthes against me.
When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
When I kept silence, my bones waxed old; through my roaring all the day long.
The king’s wrath is as the roaring of a lion; but his favour is as dew upon the grass.
The kings wrath is as the roaring of a lyon: but his fauour is as dewe vpon the grasse.
1611 marginal noteChap.16.15. and 20.2. & 28.15.
The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whoso provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul.
The feare of a king, is as the roaring of a Lion: who so prouoketh him to anger, sinneth against his owne soule.
1611 marginal noteChap.19.12. and 16.14.
As a roaring lion, and a ranging bear; so is a wicked ruler over the poor people.
As a roaring lyon and a ranging beare: so is a wicked ruler ouer the poore people.
Their roaring shall be like a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and shall carry it away safe, and none shall deliver it.
Their roaring shalbe like a lyon, they shall roare like yong lions: yea they shal roare and lay hold of the pray, and shall carie it away safe, and none shall deliuer it.
And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof.
And in that day they shall roare against them, like the roaring of the sea: and if one looke vnto the land, behold darkenesse and sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heauens therof.
1611 marginal noteOr, distresse.
1611 marginal noteOr, when it is light it shalbe darke in the destructions thereof.
For thus hath the Lord spoken unto me, Like as the lion and the young lion roaring on his prey, when a multitude of shepherds is called forth against him, he will not be afraid of their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them: so shall the Lord of hosts come down to fight for mount Zion, and for the hill thereof.
For thus hath the LORD spoken vnto me; Like as the lyon and the yong lyon roaring on his pray, when a multitude of shepheards is called foorth against him, he will not be afraid of their voice, nor abase himselfe for the noyse of them: so shall the LORD of hostes come downe to fight for mount Zion, and for the hill thereof.
1611 marginal noteOr, multitude.
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Historical English dictionary sources
Crying like a bull or lion; uttering a deep loud sound.
