גּוּרgûwr
whelp, young
Pronunciation: goor · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1482
Meanings
1. lion's whelps, figurative (Genesis 49:9; Deuteronomy 33:22; Nahum 2:12)
2. young of jackals (Lamentations 4:3)
Same root
- גּוּרgûwr · H1481properly, to turn aside from the road (for a lodging or any other purpose), i.e. sojourn (as a guest); also to shrink, fear (as in a strange place); also to gather forhostility (as afraid)
- גּוּרGûwr · H1483Gur, a place in Palestine
- גּוֹרgôwr · H1484{a cub (as still abiding in the lair), especially of the lion}
Where it appears
Appears 7 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 49:9 Judah, my son, is a young lion that has finished eating its prey. Like a lion he crouches and lies down; like a lioness—who dares to rouse him?
- Deuteronomy 33:22 Moses said this about the tribe of Dan: “Dan is a lion’s cub, leaping out from Bashan.”
- Lamentations 4:3 Even the jackals feed their young, but not my people Israel. They ignore their children’s cries, like ostriches in the desert.
- Ezekiel 19:2 “What is your mother? A lioness among lions! She lay down among the young lions and reared her cubs.
- Ezekiel 19:3 She raised one of her cubs to become a strong young lion. He learned to hunt and devour prey, and he became a man-eater.
- Ezekiel 19:5 “When the lioness saw that her hopes for him were gone, she took another of her cubs and taught him to be a strong young lion.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).