Whelp
גּוּרStrong’s H1482gur
Appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Gur is the Hebrew word usually translated “cub of”, “cubs her” and “young their”. It appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament.
“Judah is a lion’s whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?”
Meaning
- Cub, whelp, young
How it's translated
- a cub of 2
- of cubs her 2
- young their 1
- cubs her 1
- cub of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 3
- Genesis 1
- Deuteronomy 1
- Lamentations 1
- Nahum 1
5 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Deuteronomy 33:22And of Dan he said, Dan is a lion’s whelp: he shall leap from Bashan.
- Lamentations 4:3Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: the daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.
- Ezekiel 19:2And say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.
- Ezekiel 19:3And she brought up one of her whelps: it became a young lion, and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men.
- Ezekiel 19:5Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her whelps, and made him a young lion.
- Nahum 2:11Where is the dwelling of the lions, and the feedingplace of the young lions, where the lion, even the old lion, walked, and the lion’s whelp, and none made them afraid?
Hebrew dictionary
גּוּר gur · whelp
cub, whelp, young
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “whelp” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
WHELP, noun
[Latin]
- The young of the canine species, and of several other beasts of prey; a puppy; a cub; as a bear robbed of her whelps; lions whelps.
- A son; in contempt.
- A young man; in contempt.
All definitions and other forms of “whelp”
WHELP, verb intransitive
To bring forth young, as the female of the canine species and some other beasts of prey.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.