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    Ursa

    UR-suh

    Meaning

    Bear; She-bear

    Latin origin · Girl

    What it points to

    Ursa protects with bear-like fierceness — robbed of whelps yet undaunted, the mother whose devotion is more dangerous than folly.

    Verses · King James Version

    “Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly.”

    Proverbs 17:12

    “Thy father is a man of war... they be chafed in their minds, as a bear robbed of her whelps in the field.”

    2 Samuel 17:8

    biblesundays.com · King James Version

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