And of Dan he said, Dan is a lion's whelp: he shall leap from Bashan.
Dan is a lion's whelp, х quwr (H6979) 'aryeeh (H738)] - a cub; differing from х kªpiyr (H3715)] a young lion weaned, mud beginning to catch prey for itself. Dan is here called "a lion's whelp," in the knowledge or prophetic anticipation of his tribal character, when developed in future; and accordingly Burckhardt renders the clause.
He shall leap - i:e., after he shall have grown up and commenced looking out for prey.
From Bashan The territory allotted to Dan in the southwest of Canaan having been found insufficient he From Bashan. The territory allotted to Dan in the southwest of Canaan having been found insufficient, he, by a sudden and successful irruption, established a colony in the northern extremity of the land. This might well be described as a leap from Jebel-el-Heish, a mountain range in Bashan, to Laish, which, lying secure and unsuspicious of danger at the foot of this chain of hills, they attacked and took, giving it the name of Dan.