'Cubs' in the Bible

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?’”’