KJV dictionary & concordance
A small, swift deerlike animal.
Definition sources
First occurrence: 2 Samuel 2:18
Complete exact-word concordance
¶ And there were three sons of Zeruiah there, Joab, and Abishai, and Asahel: and Asahel was as light of foot as a wild roe.
¶ And there were three sonnes of Zeruiah there, Ioab, and Abishai, and Asahel: and Asahel was as light of foot as a wilde Roe.
1611 marginal noteHeb. of his feete.
1611 marginal noteHeb. as one of the Roes that is in the field.
Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.
Let her bee as the louing Hinde and pleasant Roe, let her breasts satisfie thee at all times, and be thou rauisht alwayes with her loue.
1611 marginal noteHeb. water thee.
1611 marginal noteHeb. erre thou alwayes in her loue.
Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.
Deliuer thy selfe as a Roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.
My beloved is like a roe or a young hart: behold, he standeth behind our wall, he looketh forth at the windows, shewing himself through the lattice.
My beloued is like a Roe, or a yong Hart: behold, he standeth behind our wall, he looketh foorth at the windowe, shewing himselfe through the lattesse.
1611 marginal noteVerse 17.
1611 marginal noteHeb. flourishing.
Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be thou like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains of Bether.
Untill the day breake, and the shadowes flee away: turne my beloued and be thou like a Roe, or a yong Hart, vpon the mountaines of Bether.
1611 marginal noteOr, of diuision.
1611 marginal noteChap.4.6
1611 marginal noteChap.8.14.
¶ Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.
¶ Make haste, my beloued, and be thou like to a Roe, or to a yong Hart vpon the mountaines of spices.
1611 marginal noteHeb. flee away.
And it shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep that no man taketh up: they shall every man turn to his own people, and flee every one into his own land.
And it shalbe as the chased Roe, and as a sheepe that no man taketh vp: they shall euery man turne to his owne people, and flee euery one into his owne land.
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Historical English dictionary sources
A species of deer; also, the female of the hart.
