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summer

Meaning of “summer”

Sense 1: The warm season of the year. Sense 2: Fruit ripening or gathered in that season, or a dwelling used in it. Sense 3: As a verb, to pass that season in a place.

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KJV context and cross-referencesWebster 1828
27 occurrences27 verses14 booksKJV PCE

First occurrence: Genesis 8:22

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Genesis 8:22
While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
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The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Genesis 8:22 · retained source text

While the earth remaineth, seed-time and haruest, and cold, and heat, and Summer, and Winter, and day and night, shall not cease.

1611 marginal noteHeb. as yet all the dayes of the earth.

Judges 3:20
And Ehud came unto him; and he was sitting in a summer parlour, which he had for himself alone. And Ehud said, I have a message from God unto thee. And he arose out of his seat.
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1611 witness · Judges 3:20 · retained source text

And Ehud came vnto him, and he was sitting in a Summer parlour, which hee had for himselfe alone: And Ehud said, I haue a message from God vnto thee. And he arose out of his seat.

1611 marginal noteHeb. a parlour of cooling.

Judges 3:24
When he was gone out, his servants came; and when they saw that, behold, the doors of the parlour were locked, they said, Surely he covereth his feet in his summer chamber.
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1611 witness · Judges 3:24 · retained source text

When he was gone out, his seruants came, and when they saw, that behold, the doores of the parlour were locked, they said, Surely he couereth his feet in his Summer chamber.

1611 marginal noteOr, doth his easement.

2 Samuel 16:1
AND when David was a little past the top of the hill, behold, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him, with a couple of asses saddled, and upon them two hundred loaves of bread, and an hundred bunches of raisins, and an hundred of summer fruits, and a bottle of wine.
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¶ And when Dauid was a little past the top of the hill, Beholde, Ziba the seruant of Mephibosheth met him with a couple of asses sadled, and vpon them two hundred loaues of bread, and an hundred bunches of raisins, and an hundred of summer fruits, and a bottell of wine.

2 Samuel 16:2
And the king said unto Ziba, What meanest thou by these? And Ziba said, The asses be for the king’s household to ride on; and the bread and summer fruit for the young men to eat; and the wine, that such as be faint in the wilderness may drink.
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1611 witness · 2 Samuel 16:2 · retained source text

And the King saide vnto Ziba, What meanest thou by these? And Ziba saide, The asses bee for the kings houshold to ride on, and the bread and summer fruit for the yong men to eate, and the wine, that such as be faint in the wildernesse, may drinke.

Psalms 32:4
For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.
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1611 witness · Psalms 32:4 · retained source text

For day and night thy hand was heauy vpon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.

Psalms 74:17
Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter.
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1611 witness · Psalms 74:17 · retained source text

Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: Thou hast made Summer and Winter.

1611 marginal noteHeb. made them.

Proverbs 6:8
Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.
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1611 witness · Proverbs 6:8 · retained source text

Prouideth her meat in the Summer, and gathereth her food in the haruest.

Proverbs 10:5
He that gathereth in summer is a wise son: but he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame.
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1611 witness · Proverbs 10:5 · retained source text

Hee that gathereth in Summer, is a wise sonne: but hee that sleepeth in haruest, is a sonne that causeth shame.

Proverbs 26:1
AS snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honour is not seemly for a fool.
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1611 witness · Proverbs 26:1 · retained source text

¶ As snow in summer, and as raine in haruest: so honour is not seemely for a foole.

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Historical definitions

To pass the summer or warm season in a place.

volume 2, leaf 703, column 1 (main_dictionary)

The warmest season of the year; also the warmer portion of the year when it is divided into summer and winter.

volume 2, leaf 702-703, column 3-1 (main_dictionary)