'Cubs' in the Bible

Hushai continued, “You know your father and his men. They are warriors and are desperate like a wild bear robbed of her cubs. Your father is an experienced soldier who won’t spend the night with the people.

The strong lion dies if it catches no prey,and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.

Can you bring out the constellations in their seasonand lead the Bear and her cubs?

Better for a man to meet a bear robbed of her cubsthan a fool in his foolishness.

They will roar together like young lions;they will growl like lion cubs.

Even the jackal bears the beast and nurses their cubs; [but] the daughter of my people has become ruthless, like ostriches in the wilderness.

and say:What was your mother? A lioness!She lay down among the lions;she reared her cubs among the young lions.

She brought up one of her cubs,and he became a young lion.After he learned to tear prey,he devoured people.

When she saw that she waited in vain,that her hope was lost,she took another of her cubsand made him a young lion.

Sheba and Dedan and the merchants of Tarshish (southern Spain), with all its young lions (villages) will say to you, ‘Have you come to take spoil? Have you assembled your hordes [of fighting men] to seize plunder, to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take great spoil?’”’

Just as lion cubs are born predators, so Ephraim will bear his sons for slaughter.

I will attack themlike a bear robbed of her cubsand tear open the rib cage over their hearts.I will devour them there like a lioness,like a wild beast that would rip them open.

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 cubs, and no one made them afraid?

The lion mauled whatever its cubs neededand strangled prey for its lionesses.It filled up its dens with the kill,and its lairs with mauled prey.