Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) One of the young of a dog or a beast of prey; a puppy; a cub; as, a lion's whelps. 2. (n.) A child; a youth; -- jocosely or in contempt. 3. (n.) One of the longitudinal ribs or ridges on the barrel of a capstan or a windless; -- usually in the plural; as, the whelps of a windlass. 4. (n.) One of the teeth of a sprocket wheel. 5. (v. i.) To bring forth young; -- said of the female of the dog and some beasts of prey. 6. (v. t.) To bring forth, as cubs or young; to give birth to. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia WHELP hwelp (gur, or gor; either absol. (Ezekiel 19:2, 3, 5; Nab 2:12); or constr. with 'aryeh, "lion" (Genesis 49:9 Deuteronomy 33:22 Jeremiah 51:38 Nahum 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 Lamentations 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 Maccabees 3:4)): These references are all figurative: "Judah is a lion's whelp" (Genesis 49:9); "Da is a lion's whelp" (Deuteronomy 33:22); it is said of the Babylonians, "They shall roar together like young lions; they shall growl as lions' whelps" (Jeremiah 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" (Nahum 2:11, 12). In Ezekiel 19:2-9, the princes of Israel are compared to lions' whelps. See DRAGON; LION. Alfred Ely Day

Multi-Version Concordance Whelp (4 Occurrences) Genesis 49:9 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? (KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT NAS RSV) Deuteronomy 33:22 And of Dan he said, Dan is a lion's whelp: he shall leap from Bashan. (KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT NAS RSV) Judges 14:5 And Samson goeth down -- also his father and his mother, to Timnath, and they come unto the vineyards of Timnath, and lo, a lion's whelp roareth at meeting him, (YLT) Nahum 2:11 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? (KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT)