gur · lion cub

What it means

gur (גּוּר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “lion cub”.

Lion's cub.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. The young of a lion or other wild beast.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• cubs ×4
• cub ×3

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Deuteronomy×1
• Lamentations×1
• Ezekiel×3
• Nahum×1

• Genesis 49:9

  A lion’s cub is Judah; from the prey, my son, you have gone up. He crouches, he lies down like a lion, and like a lioness; who dares rouse him?

• Deuteronomy 33:22

  And of Dan he said, “Dan is a lion’s cub; he leaps from Bashan.”

• Lamentations 4:3

  Even jackals offer the breast; they nurse their cubs; the daughter of my people has turned cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.

• Ezekiel 19:2

  and say, “What a lioness was your mother among lions! She lay down in the midst of young lions; she reared her cubs.

• Ezekiel 19:3

  And she brought up one of her cubs; he became a young lion, and he learned to tear prey; he devoured human beings.

• Ezekiel 19:5

  And she saw that she had waited, that her hope was lost; and she took another of her cubs; she made him a young lion.

• Nahum 2:11

  Where is the den of the lions and the feeding place of the young lions, where the lion walked, the lioness, there the lion’s cub, and there was no one to make them afraid?