Thank you Westy....I mean kneel LOL
How I knew about the word whelp is years ago I written music for our group that did holiday singing in the nursing homes! A Jewish friend of my asked to set Gen.49 to music.
Gen. 49
8 ¶ Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise: thy hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies; thy father’s children shall bow down before thee.
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?
10 The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
11 Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass’s colt unto the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes:
12 His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk.
...as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?
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A young lioness should do the trick.