Whelp
גּוֹרStrong’s H1484gor
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Gor is the Hebrew word usually translated “like cubs of” and “cubs its”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“They shall roar together like lions: they shall yell as lions’ whelps.”
Meaning
- Whelp
How it's translated
- like cubs of 1
- cubs its 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 1
- Nahum 1
2 books in all.
Related words
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Hebrew dictionary
גּוֹר gor · whelp
whelp
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.