'Whelps' in the Bible

and say, What was thy mother? A lioness: she couched among lions, in the midst of the young lions she nourished her whelps.

And she brought up one of her whelps: he became a young lion, and he learned to catch the prey; he devoured men.

Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her whelps, and made him a young lion.