Strong's Greek · G2965
κύων
kýōn
dog
Definition
a dog ("hound") (literally or figuratively)
Derivation
a primary word;
Appears 5 times in Scripture
“and longing to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man’s table. Even the dogs came and licked his sores.”
“Do not give dogs what is holy; do not throw your pearls before swine. If you do, they may trample them under their feet, and then turn and tear you to pieces.”
“Of them the proverbs are true: “A dog returns to its vomit,” and, “A sow that is washed goes back to her wallowing in the mud.””
“But outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.”
“Watch out for those dogs, those workers of evil, those mutilators of the flesh!”
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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).