Synonym for: Animal.

See Definition for \zwon\ 2226 See Definition for \yhrion\ 2342

\zwon\ is a general term, meaning living creature, which may include all living beings, in classical Greek even including man. In the N.T. it means ordinarily animal.

\yhrion\ is beast, usually wild beast. It implies perhaps not necessarily wildness and ferocity, but at least a certain amount of brutality which is wanting in \zwon\. \zwon\ emphasizes the qualities in which animals are akin to man, \yhrion\, those in which they are inferior.