Topic
Whelp
13 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Genesis 49:9ISBE
Judah is a lion’s whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?
- Deuteronomy 33:22ISBE
¶ And of Dan he said, Dan is a lion’s whelp: he shall leap from Bashan.
- Job 4:11ISBE
The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion’s whelps are scattered abroad.
- Job 28:8ISBE
The lion’s whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it.
- Jeremiah 51:38ISBE
They shall roar together like lions: they shall yell as lions’ whelps.
- Lamentations 4:3ISBE
Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: the daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.
- Ezekiel 19:2ISBE
And say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.
- Ezekiel 19:2–9ISBE
And say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions. And she brought up one of her whelps: it became a young lion, and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men. The nations also heard of him; he…
- Ezekiel 19:3ISBE
And she brought up one of her whelps: it became a young lion, and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men.
- Ezekiel 19:5ISBE
Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her whelps, and made him a young lion.
- Nahum 2:11ISBE
Where is the dwelling of the lions, and the feedingplace of the young lions, where the lion, even the old lion, walked, and the lion’s whelp, and none made them afraid?
- Nahum 2:12ISBE
The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his holes with prey, and his dens with ravin.
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- 1 Maccabees 3:4 ISBE
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 18 references
hwelp (gur, or gor; either absol. (Eze 19:2,3,5; Nab 2:12); or constr. with 'aryeh, "lion" (Ge 49:9; De 33:22; Jer 51:38; Na 2:11); also benelabhi', literally, "sons of a lioness," translated "the whelps of the lioness" (Job 4:11). In Job 28:8, the King James Version has "lion's whelps" for bene shachats, which the Revised Version (British and American) renders "proud beasts," margin "sons of pride." In La 4:3 gur is used of the young of tannin the Revised Version (British and American) "jackal," the King James Version "sea-monsters," the King James Version margin "sea-calves"; it may possibly mean "wolves"; skumnos, the technical word for "lion's whelp" (1 Macc 3:4)): These references are all figurative: "Judah is a lion's whelp" (Ge 49:9); "Da is a lion's whelp" (De 33:22); it is said of the Babylonians, "They shall roar together like young lions; they shall growl as lions' whelps" (Jer 51:38); of the Assyrians, "Where is the den of the lions, and the feeding-place of the young lions, where the lion and the lioness walked, the lion's whelp, and none made them afraid? 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" (Na 2:11,12). In Eze 19:2-9, the princes of Israel are compared to lions' whelps.
Alfred Ely Day
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.