H1482 - גּוּר (gûwr)

H1482 גּוּר (gûwr) goor

Hebrew

Noun (Masculine, Hebrew)

Quick Definition

whelp

Strong's Definition

a cub (as still abiding in the lair), especially of the lion

Derivation: or (shortened) גֻּר; perhaps from H1481 (גּוּר);

KJV Usage: whelp, young one.

TWOT Reference: 331b

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) cub, whelp, young

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

cub, whelp, young

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

גֻּר / גּוּר gûr BDB Definition: 1) cub, whelp, young Part of Speech: noun masculine A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: perhaps from H1481 Same Word by TWOT Number: 331b Total KJV Occurrences: 7

Bible Occurrences (7)

49:9

33:22

4:3

19:2 19:3 19:5

2:11

Genesis 49:9

Judah is a young lion— my son, you return from the prey. Like a lion he crouches [and] lies down; like a lioness, who dares to rouse him?

Deuteronomy 33:22

Concerning Dan he said: Dan [is] a lion’s cub, leaping out of Bashan.

Lamentations 4:3

Even jackals offer their breasts to nurse their young, [but] the daughter of my people has become cruel, like an ostrich in the wilderness.

Ezekiel 19:2

and say: What was your mother? A lioness among the lions! She lay down among the young lions; she reared her cubs.

Ezekiel 19:3

She brought up one of her cubs, and he became a young lion. After learning to tear [his] prey, he devoured men.

Ezekiel 19:5

When she saw that she had waited in vain, that her hope was lost, she took another of her cubs and made him a young lion.

Nahum 2:11

Where is the lions’ lair or the feeding ground... of the young lions, where the lion and lioness... prowled with [their] cubs, with nothing to frighten them away?