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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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Isaiah 16:9
¶ Therefore I will bewail with the weeping of Jazer the vine of Sibmah: I will water thee with my tears, O Heshbon, and Elealeh: for the shouting for thy summer fruits and for thy harvest is fallen.
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The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Isaiah 16:9 · retained source text

¶ Therefore I wil bewaile with the weeping of Iazer, the Uine of Sibmah I wil water thee with my teares, O Heshbon, and Elealeh: for the shouting for thy Summer fruits, and for thy haruest, is fallen.

1611 marginal noteOr, the alarme is fallen vpon, &c.

Isaiah 18:6
They shall be left together unto the fowls of the mountains, and to the beasts of the earth: and the fowls shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them.
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1611 witness · Isaiah 18:6 · retained source text

They shalbe left together vnto the foules of the mountaines, and to the beasts of the earth: and the foules shall summer vpon them, and all the beastes of the earth shall winter vpon them.

Isaiah 28:4
And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be a fading flower, and as the hasty fruit before the summer; which when he that looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up.
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1611 witness · Isaiah 28:4 · retained source text

And the glorious beautie which is on the head of the fat valley, shall bee a fading flowre, and as the hastie fruite before the summer: which when he that looketh vpon it, seeth it, while it is yet in his hand, he eateth it vp.

1611 marginal noteHeb. swalloweth.

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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)