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# גּוֹר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1484

**whelp** — used 2 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/1490/1484/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גּוֹר: whelp [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1484/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] whelp (as quarrelsome? or onomatop.? perhaps = Assyrian giru ZehnpfundBAS i. 504) of lion—גּוֹרֵי אֲרָיוֹת Je 51:38 (‖ כְּפִרִים) sim. of Babylonians; cf. גֹּרֹתָיו Na 2:13 (‖ id. v 14) fig. of Assyrians.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 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 (1); its cubs (1).

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 51:38](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.51.38/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.51.38/#tree)

יַחְדָּ֖ו כַּכְּפִרִ֣ים יִשְׁאָ֑גוּ נָעֲר֖וּ כְּגוֹרֵ֥י אֲרָיֽוֹת׃

*Word for word:* together like.(the) young lions they.roar they.growl like cubs of.lions

*JPS 1917:* They shall roar together like young lions; they shall growl as lions' whelps.

[Nahum 2:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/NAM.2.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/NAM.2.13/#tree)

אַרְיֵ֤ה טֹרֵף֙ בְּדֵ֣י גֹֽרוֹתָ֔יו וּמְחַנֵּ֖ק לְלִבְאֹתָ֑יו וַיְמַלֵּא־טֶ֣רֶף חֹרָ֔יו וּמְעֹֽנֹתָ֖יו טְרֵפָֽה׃

*Word for word:* \[the\].lion \[was\].tearing for the.sufficiency its.cubs his and \[it.was\].strangling for lionesses its and it.filled prey holes its and dens its torn.flesh

*JPS 1917:* The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his caves with prey, and his dens with ravin.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1484.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1484/): 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).