'Cubs' in the Bible

Moreover, Hushai said, “You know your father and his men, that they are mighty men and they are fierce, like a bear robbed of her cubs in the field. And your father is an expert in warfare, and will not spend the night with the people.

Let a man meet a bear robbed of her cubs,Rather than a fool in his folly.

“They will roar together like young lions,They will growl like lions’ cubs.

and say,‘What was your mother?A lioness among lions!She lay down among young lions,She reared her cubs.

‘When she brought up one of her cubs,He became a lion,And he learned to tear his prey;He devoured men.

‘When she saw, as she waited,That her hope was lost,She took another of her cubsAnd made him a young lion.

I will encounter them like a bear robbed of her cubs,And I will tear open their chests;There I will also devour them like a lioness,As a wild beast would tear them.

The lion tore enough for his cubs,Killed enough for his lionesses,And filled his lairs with preyAnd his dens with torn flesh.