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

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.
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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).