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# גּוּר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1482

**whelp** — used 7 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

whelp [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1482/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גּוּר⁴: n.m. whelp, young [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1482/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Ez 19:3, 5 whelp, young—cstr. גּוּר(אַרְיֵה) Gn 49:9 + 2 times; sf. גּוּרֶיהָ Ez 19:2, גֻּרֶיהָ Ez 19:3, 5, גּוּרֵיהֶן La 4:3;— lion’s whelps, fig. of Judah Gn 49:9; of Dan Dt 33:22; of Assyrian (prince?) Na 2:12; fig. of Israelites Ez 19:2, 3, 5 (‖ כְּפִיר). young of jackals (תַּנִּין) La 4:3.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (16 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (11 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: cubs (4); \[is\] a cub (2); cub (1).

## In the verses

[Deuteronomy 33:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.33.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.33.22/#tree)

וּלְדָ֣ן אָמַ֔ר דָּ֖ן גּ֣וּר אַרְיֵ֑ה יְזַנֵּ֖ק מִן־הַבָּשָֽׁן׃

*Word for word:* and of Dan he.said Dan \[is\].a.cub of.a.lion he.leaps.forth from (the) Bashan

*JPS 1917:* And of Dan he said: Dan is a lion's whelp, that leapeth forth from Bashan.

[Ezekiel 19:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.19.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.19.2/#tree)

וְאָמַרְתָּ֗ מָ֤ה אִמְּךָ֙ לְבִיָּ֔א בֵּ֥ין אֲרָי֖וֹת רָבָ֑צָה בְּת֥וֹךְ כְּפִרִ֖ים רִבְּתָ֥ה גוּרֶֽיהָ׃

*Word for word:* and you.will.say what? mother \[was\].your a.lioness between lions she.lay.down among young.lions she.reared cubs her

*JPS 1917:* and say: How was thy mother a lioness; among lions she couched, in the midst of the young lions she reared her whelps!

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1482.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1482/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).