KJV dictionary & concordance
Present-participial or verbal-noun form of shear (to cut or clip something from the surface with an instrument of two blades; to separate any thing from the surface by shears, scissors or a like instrument).
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First occurrence: 1 Samuel 25:2
Complete exact-word concordance
And there was a man in Maon, whose possessions were in Carmel; and the man was very great, and he had three thousand sheep, and a thousand goats: and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.
And there was a man in Maon, whose possessions were in Carmel, and the man was very great, and hee had three thousand sheepe, and a thousand goates: and he was shearing his sheepe in Carmel.
1611 marginal noteOr, busines.
¶ And he arose and departed, and came to Samaria. And as he was at the shearing house in the way,
¶ And hee arose, and departed, and came to Samaria: And as he was at the shearing house in the way,
1611 marginal noteHeb. house of shepherds binding sheepe.
And he said, Take them alive. And they took them alive, and slew them at the pit of the shearing house, even two and forty men; neither left he any of them.
And hee said, Take them aliue. And they tooke them aliue, and slew them at the pit of the shearing house, euen two and fourty men; neither left he any of them.
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