KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Song of Solomon 2:16–17
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Song of Solomon 2:16
16¶ My beloved is mine, and I am his: he feedeth among the lilies.
16¶ *My beloued is mine, and I am his: he feedeth among the lillies.
- Chap.6.3. and 7.10.
Song of Solomon 2:17
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.
17*Untill the day breake, and the shadowes flee away: turne my beloued and be thou *like a Roe, or a yong Hart, vpon the mountaines ‖of Bether.
- Or, of diuision.
- Chap.4.6
- Chap.8.14.
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DEFINED WORDS
Song of Solomon 2:16
Flowering plants noted for their beauty.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Strong 1890
DEFINED WORDS
Song of Solomon 2:17
The period of light between morning and evening; a complete daily cycle; or a specified time, age, or season, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage
To separate, fracture, open, interrupt, violate, subdue, or burst forth, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Strong 1890 · Webster 1828
Shade from light; a dark outline; or a figure of protection, transience, or a coming reality, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 · KJV usage
To run or hasten away, especially from danger or expected evil.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 · KJV usage
To change direction, position, condition, purpose, or allegiance; to cause such a change.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890
Similar or of the same kind; in the same manner; likely; or, as a verb, to please.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828
The swift deerlike creature called a roe in the KJV.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage
Early in life or growth; not mature; also offspring, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Strong 1890 · Webster 1828
A male deer or stag.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage
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From verse 16
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Open the full verse study3I am my beloved’s, and my beloved is mine: he feedeth among the lilies.
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Open the full verse study10¶ I am my beloved’s, and his desire is toward me.
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Open the full verse study33But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
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Open the full verse study14For this God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide even unto death.
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Open the full verse study1O GOD, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;
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Open the full verse study21Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things are yours;
22Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours;
23And ye are Christ’s; and Christ is God’s.
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Open the full verse study20I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
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Open the full verse study2And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
3And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.
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Open the full verse study7Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, where thou makest thy flock to rest at noon: for why should I be as one that turneth aside by the flocks of thy companions?
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Open the full verse study1I AM the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys.
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Open the full verse study13The mandrakes give a smell, and at our gates are all manner of pleasant fruits, new and old, which I have laid up for thee, O my beloved.
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Open the full verse study5Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins, which feed among the lilies.
From verse 17
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Open the full verse study6Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, I will get me to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense.
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Open the full verse study19We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:
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Open the full verse study1FOR the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.
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Open the full verse study5Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount.
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Open the full verse study78Through the tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited us,
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Open the full verse study12The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.
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Open the full verse study8¶ The voice of my beloved! behold, he cometh leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills.
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.
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Open the full verse study14¶ Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.
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