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Proverbs 5:19

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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.
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  1. Song of Solomon 7:3Rank 1 from verse 19
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    3Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins.

  2. Song of Solomon 2:9Rank 2 from verse 19
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    9My 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.

  3. Song of Solomon 4:5Rank 3 from verse 19
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    5Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins, which feed among the lilies.

  4. Song of Solomon 8:14Rank 4 from verse 19
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    14¶ Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.

  5. Proverbs 5:15Rank 5 from verse 19
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    15¶ Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.

  6. Song of Solomon 2:17Rank 6 from verse 19
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    17Until 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.

  7. 2 Samuel 12:4Rank 7 from verse 19
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    4And there came a traveller unto the rich man, and he spared to take of his own flock and of his own herd, to dress for the wayfaring man that was come unto him; but took the poor man’s lamb, and dressed it for the man that was come to him.

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Proverbs 5:19

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let

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Sense 1: To allow or permit; in older KJV use, also to hinder or restrain. Sense 2: To lower or send down.

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loving

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Present-participial or verbal-noun form of love, meaning to regard with affection or devotion.

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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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satisfy

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To gratify wants, wishes or desires to the full extent; to supply possession or enjoyment till no more is desired.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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thou

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The singular second-person subject pronoun, meaning you when directly addressing one person, being, or individually treated addressee.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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ravished

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Carried away or overcome by love or delight; in contexts of violence, sexually violated by force.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

love

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Sense 1: Affection, attachment, delight, goodwill, commitment, or devotion. Sense 2: To regard with affection or devotion. Sense 3: A beloved person.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references

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5:15¶ Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.

5:16Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.

5:17Let them be only thine own, and not strangers’ with thee.

5:18Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.

5:19Let 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.

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5:20And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?

5:21For the ways of man are before the eyes of the Lord, and he pondereth all his goings.

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