Leopard in Fausset's Bible Dictionary
Famed for swiftness and agility (Habakkuk 1:8); "you would
fancy it was flying" (Oppian Cyneg., iii. 76); it climbs
trees, and can crawl along the ground. Hence the symbol for
Greece and Alexander's rapid victories (Daniel 7:6; Revelation
13:2). The prevalence of leopards anciently in Israel is
marked by the many places named from them (namer, Hebrew):
Nimrah, Nimrim, Beth Nimrah. "The mountains of the leopard"
(Song of Solomon 4:8), namely, Lebanon and Hermon, where still
they are found; "the mountains of prey" (Psalm 76:4),
symbolizing the rapacious world kingdoms. They spring with
successive rapid bounds. They cunningly lie in wait in
thickets and often near villages for their prey, as
distinguished from the lion's bold, open attack (Jeremiah 5:6;
Hosea 13:7): "as a leopard by the way, I will observe (lie in
wait for) them." Its unalterable spots represent man's
inability to change himself (Jeremiah 13:23); yet the leopard
in the millennium shall "lie down with the kid" (Isaiah 11:6).
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