16 occurrences

'Roe' in the Bible

Only you may put to death animals, such as the gazelle or the roe, for your food in any of your towns, at the desire of your soul, in keeping with the blessing of the Lord your God which he has given you: the unclean and the clean may take of it.

Verse ConceptsKilling Domesticated AnimalsClean And UncleanDeer Etc.Animals Having A SoulDeerEating Meat

It will be your food, like the gazelle and the roe; the unclean and the clean may take of it.

Verse ConceptsClean And UncleanDeer Etc.Deer

The hart, the gazelle, and the roe, the mountain goat and the pygarg and the antelope and the mountain sheep.

Verse ConceptsDeersAnimals, Types OfDeer Etc.Deer

It may be used for food in your houses: the unclean and the clean may take of it, as of the gazelle and the roe.

Verse ConceptsClean And UncleanDeer Etc.Deer

There were three sons of Zeruiah there, Joab and Abishai and Asahel: and Asahel was as quick-footed as a roe of the fields.

Verse ConceptsThree ChildrenFast RunnersDeer Etc.Deer

Like the desire of the roe for the water-streams, so is my soul's desire for you, O God.

Verse ConceptsMusicSaints, Communion With GodDeer Etc.BrooksDeer

Make yourself free, like the roe from the hand of the archer, and the bird from him who puts a net for her.

Verse ConceptsHuntingBirds, Figurative UseSaving OneselfDeer Etc.DebtBeing YourselfDeerSaving Money

The simple man goes after her, like an ox going to its death, like a roe pulled by a cord;

Verse ConceptsBeing Killed Like An AnimalKilled Like An AnimalDeerimpulsiveness

My loved one is like a roe; see, he is on the other side of our wall, he is looking in at the windows, letting himself be seen through the spaces.

Verse ConceptsYoung LoversDeer Etc.Deer

Till the evening comes, and the sky slowly becomes dark, come, my loved one, and be like a roe on the mountains of Bether.

Verse ConceptsThe Cool Of The DayUntil DaybreakDeer Etc.

Come quickly, my loved one, and be like a roe on the mountains of spice.

Verse ConceptsYoung LoversDeer Etc.Deer

And it will be that, like a roe in flight, and like wandering sheep, they will go every man to his people and to his land.

Verse ConceptsHuntingWatchfulness, DivineScattered Like SheepDeer Etc.Deerwandering

Then will the feeble-footed be jumping like a roe, and the voice which was stopped will be loud in song: for in the waste land streams will be bursting out, and waters in the dry places.

Verse ConceptsLeapingCripplesLamenessTonguePeople JumpingRunning Water From GodDumbnessRenewedDumbDeserts Used FigurativelyDeer Etc.Deerjumping

Your sons are overcome, like a roe in a net; they are full of the wrath of the Lord, the punishment of your God.

Verse ConceptsNetsRoadsAnger Of God, ConsequencesFaintingMan TrappingTragedy On The StreetsDeer Etc.distractions

And the roe, giving birth in the field, lets her young one be uncared for, because there is no grass.

Verse ConceptsDeersGrassYoung AnimalAnimals ForsakingDeer Etc.Deer

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