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<p> <strong> BEAR </strong> ( <em> dôb </em> ). The Syrian bear ( <em> Ursus syriacus </em> , Arab. [Note: Arabic.] <em> dûbb </em> ) is still fairly common in Hermon and the Anti-Lebanon, and is occasionally found in the [[Lebanon]] and east of the Jordan; it is practically extinct in Palestine. It is smaller and of a lighter colour than the brown bear ( <em> Ursus arctos </em> ). It is a somewhat solitary animal, eating vegetables, fruit, and honey, but, when hungry, attacking sheep (&nbsp; 1 Samuel 17:34-36 ) and occasionally, but very rarely, to-day at any rate, human beings (&nbsp; 2 Kings 2:24 ). The fierceness of a bear robbed of her whelps (&nbsp; 2 Samuel 17:8 , &nbsp; Proverbs 17:12 , &nbsp; Hosea 13:8 ) is well known. Next to the lion, the bear was considered the most dangerous of animals to encounter (&nbsp; Proverbs 28:15 ), and that it should be subdued was to be one of the wonders of the Messiah’s kingdom (&nbsp; Isaiah 11:7 ). </p> <p> [[E. W. G]]  Masterman. </p>