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title: גּוֹר — whelp · The Tanakh dictionary
description: גּוֹר (1484), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: whelp. BDB 1906: whelp. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# גּוֹר

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«גּוֹר» in the Tanakh dictionary: **whelp** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 2 times · **Key:** 1484 · **BDB:** גּוֹר

### Glosses

cubs (1); its.cubs (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

whelp [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1484/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

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

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**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.

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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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «גּוֹר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1484/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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

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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.

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

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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.

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