'Lions' in the Bible

and say, What was thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps in the midst of the young lions.

And he went up and down among the lions; he became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey; he devoured men.

Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions thereof, shall say unto thee, Art thou come to seize a spoil? hast thou gathered thine assemblage to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take cattle and goods, to seize a great spoil?