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  • proper noun Christianity Jesus Christ
  • proper noun the emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia

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Examples

  • Dreadlocks on a Rasta's head are symbolic of the Lion of Judah which is sometimes centered on the Ethiopian Flag.

    RVABlogs 2009

  • Humble yourselves before God, for His Son, the Lion of Judah will roar with such greatness that you will fall in His glory. bulldog

    Swing voters will decide Kennedy seat 2010

  • Nor do we think he is the Son of Man, the Lamb of God, the Lion of Judah, or any other deity, religious leader, prophet, revelatory presence, allegorical farm or zoo animal or personification of an abstract principle, um, have I left anything out?

    Yatima » 2008 » October 2008

  • Nor do we think he is the Son of Man, the Lamb of God, the Lion of Judah, or any other deity, religious leader, prophet, revelatory presence, allegorical farm or zoo animal or personification of an abstract principle, um, have I left anything out?

    infrequently asked questions 2008

  • Pride of place belongs, of course, to the Lion of Judah, emblem of the Israelites since the Book of Genesis.

    On West 53rd Street, 2008

  • In Jamaica, 300 years of colonialism followed by the economic doldrums of independence sent scores of young men to the shanties of Trenchtown where, infused with perhaps too much marijuana, the Rastafarians cast Haile Selassi, a minor African despot, as the Lion of Judah.

    Wade Davis: For a Global Declaration of Interdependence 2008

  • His Grace the Lion of Judah, the canonized patriarch of Tuam, blessed their green banner before they set forth.

    Burlesques 2006

  • If we can reconcile the idea that Jesus is both the Lamb of God, and the Lion of Judah at the same time, why not Jesus as the loving, caring and nurturing shepherd, and the Shepherd who breaks the leg for a greater good?

    Break a leg! 2006

  • His Grace the Lion of Judah, the canonized patriarch of Tuam, blessed their green banner before they set forth.

    The History of the Next French Revolution 2006

  • My father, making use of his Ethiopian connections, invited the Lion of Judah to dinner.

    An Autobiography Peter, Ustinov 1977

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