'Lions' in the Bible

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

And he went up and down among the lions; he became a young lion, and he 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 take the spoil? hast thou assembled thy company to take the prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take great spoil?