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Nahum 2:7

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And Huzzab shall be led away captive, she shall be brought up, and her maids shall lead her as with the voice of doves, tabering upon their breasts.
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  1. Isaiah 38:14Rank 1 from verse 7
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    14Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O Lord, I am oppressed; undertake for me.

  2. Isaiah 59:11Rank 2 from verse 7
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    11We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.

  3. Isaiah 32:12Rank 3 from verse 7
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    12They shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.

  4. Luke 23:27Rank 4 from verse 7
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    27¶ And there followed him a great company of people, and of women, which also bewailed and lamented him.

  5. Luke 23:48Rank 5 from verse 7
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    48And all the people that came together to that sight, beholding the things which were done, smote their breasts, and returned.

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Nahum 2:7

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shall

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An auxiliary verb expressing future action, intention, promise, command, requirement, or determination.

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lead

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Sense 1: A soft, heavy metal. Sense 2: As a verb, to guide, conduct, or go before.

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doves

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Sense 1: Doves or pigeons. Sense 2: Terms of endearment or figures of dove-like qualities.

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tabering

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Beating, tapping, or striking rhythmically upon the breast as upon a tabret, in an outward expression of grief.

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upon

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1. Marks the person, place, thing, or basis to which something is related: on or onto; above or over; toward or against as the target of action, speech, thought, attention, or force; resting on, assigned to, or affecting as a state, gift, burden, duty, guilt, or judgment; supported by or based on; or one placed, added, or repeated on or after another. 2. With a stated time or occasion, or a preceding event, at that time or point, or at or after that event: on, at, when, then, or following it.

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breasts

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Plural form of breast (the front part of the body between the neck and the belly).

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6The gates of the rivers shall be opened, and the palace shall be dissolved.

7And Huzzab shall be led away captive, she shall be brought up, and her maids shall lead her as with the voice of doves, tabering upon their breasts.

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8But Nineveh is of old like a pool of water: yet they shall flee away. Stand, stand, shall they cry; but none shall look back.

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