'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.

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.

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.

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.