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    Ursuline

    UR-suh-leen

    Latin
    Girl
    Meaning-based name
    Meaning
    Little bear; She-bear
    Origin
    Latin
    Is it in the Bible?
    No — the name Ursuline does not appear in the King James Bible. Christian families use it for its meaning, "Little bear; She-bear", and for the biblical themes that meaning touches, not because anyone in Scripture is called Ursuline.
    First appears in
    Does not appear in the King James text
    Peak US usage
    No recorded United States usage in the 1880–2008 records
    Spiritual meaning
    Ursuline protects with fierce love — the mother bear guarding her young, the holy fierceness that defends what God has entrusted to her care.
    Verses on this meaning
    • Hosea 13:8

      "I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, and will rend the caul of their heart."

    • 2 Samuel 17:8

      "Thy father is a man of war, and will not lodge with the people. He is now hid in some pit, or in some other place: and it shall come to pass, when some of them be overthrown at the first, that whosoever heareth it shall say, There is a slaughter among the people that follow Absalom."

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