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Song of Solomon 2

Song of Sol. 2:14 KJV (With Strong’s)

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O my dove
yownah (Hebrew #3123)
a dove (apparently from the warmth of their mating)
KJV usage: dove, pigeon.
Pronounce: yo-naw'
Origin: probably from the same as 3196
, that art in the clefts
chagav (Hebrew #2288)
a rift in rocks
KJV usage: cleft.
Pronounce: khag-awv'
Origin: from an unused root meaning to take refuge
of the rock
cela` (Hebrew #5553)
a craggy rock, literally or figuratively (a fortress)
KJV usage: (ragged) rock, stone(-ny), strong hold.
Pronounce: seh'-lah
Origin: from an unused root meaning to be lofty
, in the secret
cether (Hebrew #5643)
from 5641; a cover (in a good or a bad, a literal or a figurative sense)
KJV usage: backbiting, covering, covert, X disguise(-th), hiding place, privily, protection, secret(-ly, place).
Pronounce: say'-ther
Origin: or (feminine) cithrah (Deut. 32:38), {sith-raw'}
places of the stairs
madregah (Hebrew #4095)
properly, a step; by implication, a steep or inaccessible place
KJV usage: stair, steep place.
Pronounce: mad-ray-gaw'
Origin: from an unused root meaning to step
, let me see
ra'ah (Hebrew #7200)
to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative)
KJV usage: advise self, appear, approve, behold, X certainly, consider, discern, (make to) enjoy, have experience, gaze, take heed, X indeed, X joyfully, lo, look (on, one another, one on another, one upon another, out, up, upon), mark, meet, X be near, perceive, present, provide, regard, (have) respect, (fore-, cause to, let) see(-r, -m, one another), shew (self), X sight of others, (e-)spy, stare, X surely, X think, view, visions.
Pronounce: raw-aw'
Origin: a primitive root
thy countenance
mar'eh (Hebrew #4758)
a view (the act of seeing); also an appearance (the thing seen), whether (real) a shape (especially if handsome, comeliness; often plural the looks), or (mental) a vision
KJV usage: X apparently, appearance(-reth), X as soon as beautiful(-ly), countenance, fair, favoured, form, goodly, to look (up) on (to), look(-eth), pattern, to see, seem, sight, visage, vision.
Pronounce: mar-eh'
Origin: from 7200
, let me hear
shama` (Hebrew #8085)
to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively, to tell, etc.)
KJV usage: X attentively, call (gather) together, X carefully, X certainly, consent, consider, be content, declare, X diligently, discern, give ear, (cause to, let, make to) hear(-ken, tell), X indeed, listen, make (a) noise, (be) obedient, obey, perceive, (make a) proclaim(-ation), publish, regard, report, shew (forth), (make a) sound, X surely, tell, understand, whosoever (heareth), witness.
Pronounce: shaw-mah'
Origin: a primitive root
thy voice
qowl (Hebrew #6963)
from an unused root meaning to call aloud; a voice or sound
KJV usage: + aloud, bleating, crackling, cry (+ out), fame, lightness, lowing, noise, + hold peace, (pro-)claim, proclamation, + sing, sound, + spark, thunder(-ing), voice, + yell.
Pronounce: kole
Origin: or qol {kole}
; for sweet
`areb (Hebrew #6156)
pleasant
KJV usage: sweet.
Pronounce: aw-rabe'
Origin: from 6149
t is thy voice
qowl (Hebrew #6963)
from an unused root meaning to call aloud; a voice or sound
KJV usage: + aloud, bleating, crackling, cry (+ out), fame, lightness, lowing, noise, + hold peace, (pro-)claim, proclamation, + sing, sound, + spark, thunder(-ing), voice, + yell.
Pronounce: kole
Origin: or qol {kole}
, and thy countenance
mar'eh (Hebrew #4758)
a view (the act of seeing); also an appearance (the thing seen), whether (real) a shape (especially if handsome, comeliness; often plural the looks), or (mental) a vision
KJV usage: X apparently, appearance(-reth), X as soon as beautiful(-ly), countenance, fair, favoured, form, goodly, to look (up) on (to), look(-eth), pattern, to see, seem, sight, visage, vision.
Pronounce: mar-eh'
Origin: from 7200
is comely
na'veh (Hebrew #5000)
suitable, or beautiful
KJV usage: becometh, comely, seemly.
Pronounce: naw-veh'
Origin: from 4998 or 5116
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my dove.
Song of Sol. 5:2• 2I was asleep, but my heart waked.{HR}The voice of my beloved that knocketh [saying],{HR}Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, mine undefiled;{HR}For my head is filled with dew,{HR}My locks with the drops of the night. (Song of Sol. 5:2)
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Song of Sol. 6:9• 9My dove, mine undefiled, is one;{HR}She [is] the only one of her mother,{HR}She [is] the choice one of her that bare her.{HR}The daughters saw her and called her blessed;{HR}The queens and the concubines, and they praised her. (Song of Sol. 6:9)
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Psa. 68:13• 13Though ye lie among the cattle-pens ,{HR}[Ye shall be like] wings of a dove covered with silver,{HR}And her feathers with yellow-green gold. (Psa. 68:13)
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Psa. 74:19• 19Give not up the soul of thy turtle-dove to the wild beast :{HR}Forget not the herd of thine afflicted forever. (Psa. 74:19)
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Isa. 60:8• 8Who [are] these [that] fly as a cloud, and as doves to their dovecotes? (Isa. 60:8)
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Ezek. 7:16• 16And they that escape of them shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, every one for his iniquity. (Ezek. 7:16)
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Matt. 3:16• 16And Jesus, having been baptized, went up straightway from the water, and lo, the heavens were opened to him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove, and coming upon him: (Matt. 3:16)
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Matt. 10:16• 16Behold, I send you as sheep in the midst of wolves; be therefore prudent as the serpents, and guileless as the doves. (Matt. 10:16)
that art.
Ex. 3:6• 6And he said, I [am] the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look upon God. (Ex. 3:6)
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Ex. 4:11‑13• 11And Jehovah said to him, Who gave man a mouth? or who maketh dumb, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? have not I, Jehovah?
12And now go, and I will be with thy mouth, and will teach thee what thou shalt say.
13And he said, Ah Lord! send, I pray thee, by the hand of him whom thou wilt send.
(Ex. 4:11‑13)
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Ezra 9:5‑6• 5And at the evening sacrifice I arose up from my heaviness; and having rent my garment and my mantle, I fell upon my knees, and spread out my hands unto Jehovah my God,
6and said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God: for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our trespass is grown up unto the heavens.
(Ezra 9:5‑6)
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Job 9:16• 16Though I had cited him, and he had answered me,{HR}I would not believe that he would listen to me, (Job 9:16)
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Isa. 6:5• 5Then said I, Woe to me! for I am undone; for I [am] a man of unclean lips; and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for mine eyes have seen the King, Jehovah of hosts. (Isa. 6:5)
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Dan. 9:7• 7Thine, O Lord, is the righteousness, but unto us confusion of face, as at this day, to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and unto all Israel, that are near, and that are far off, in all the countries whither thou hast driven them, because of their unfaithfulness in which they have been unfaithful against thee. (Dan. 9:7)
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Luke 8:47‑48• 47And the woman, seeing that she was not hid, came trembling, and, falling down before him, declared [unto him] before all the people for what cause she had touched him, and how she was immediately healed.
48And he said to her, Be of good courage, daughter; thy faith hath healed thee; go in peace.
(Luke 8:47‑48)
clefts.
let me hear.
for sweet.
Psa. 22:3• 3And thou art holy, inhabiting the praises of Israel. (Psa. 22:3)
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Psa. 50:23• 23He that sacrificeth praise glorifieth me,{HR}And to him that ordereth [his] way will I show the salvation of God. (Psa. 50:23)
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Isa. 51:3• 3For Jehovah will comfort Zion; he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of Jehovah: joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving and the voice of melody. (Isa. 51:3)
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Rev. 4:8‑10• 8And the four living creatures, having each of them six wings, round about and within are full of eyes; and they have no rest day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, the Lord God the Almighty that was and that is and that is to come.
9And when the living creatures shall give glory and honour and thanks to him that sitteth on the throne unto the ages of the ages,
10the twenty-four elders shall fall down before him that sitteth on the throne, and shall worship him that liveth unto the ages of the ages, and shall cast their crowns before the throne, saying,
(Rev. 4:8‑10)
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Rev. 5:8• 8And when he took the book, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, having each a harp and golden bowls full of incense, which is the prayers of the saints. (Rev. 5:8)
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Rev. 7:9‑10• 9After these things I saw, and, behold, a great multitude, which no one could number, out of every nation and tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands;
10and they cry with a loud voice, saying, The salvation to our God that sitteth on the throne and to the Lamb.
(Rev. 7:9‑10)
thy countenance.
 The King has told the bride of a land of sunshine and song, when the winter will be past and the rain will be over and gone; but in the meantime, she is yet in the land of winter and storm. But the One who is coming for her is the One who protects her. (Canticle 2: The Awakening of Love by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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My dove, in the clefts of the rock, In the covert of the precipice, Let me see thy countenance, let me hear thy voice; For sweet is thy voice, and thy countenance is comely.

W. Kelly Translation

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My dove, in the clefts of the rock,{HR}In the covert of the precipice,{HR}Let me see thy countenance, let me hear thy voice;{HR}For sweet [is] thy voice, and thy countenance comely.