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Song of Solomon 2:17
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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.
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- Chap.4.6
- Chap.8.14.
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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 (PCE + 1611)
To separate, fracture, open, interrupt, violate, subdue, or burst forth, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
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 alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
To run or hasten away, especially from danger or expected evil.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
To change direction, position, condition, purpose, or allegiance; to cause such a change.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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 (PCE + 1611)
Early in life or growth; not mature; also offspring, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
A male deer or stag.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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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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