גּוּר gûwr

Meaning

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

In the King James Version: whelp, young one.

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

Where it is used

• 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?