Topic
Roe, The
11 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
These works date from 1897 and are in the public domain. They reflect the Protestant scholarship of their time: their history, archaeology and dates can be out of date, and where they interpret, other traditions read the text differently. The verses are shown in the King James Version, the wording these works were written against.
The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Deuteronomy 12:15Torrey Clean and fit for food
Notwithstanding thou mayest kill and eat flesh in all thy gates, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee: the unclean and the clean may eat thereof, as of the roebuck, and as of the hart.
- Deuteronomy 14:5Torrey Clean and fit for food
The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow deer, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the wild ox, and the chamois.
- 2 Samuel 2:18Torrey DESCRIBED AS — Wild
¶ And there were three sons of Zeruiah there, Joab, and Abishai, and Asahel: and Asahel was as light of foot as a wild roe.
- 1 Kings 4:23Torrey Male of, called the roebuck
Ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and an hundred sheep, beside harts, and roebucks, and fallowdeer, and fatted fowl.
- 1 Chronicles 12:8Torrey DESCRIBED AS — Swift
And of the Gadites there separated themselves unto David into the hold to the wilderness men of might, and men of war fit for the battle, that could handle shield and buckler, whose faces were like the faces of lions, and were as swift as the roes upon the…
- Proverbs 5:19Torrey DESCRIBED AS — Cheerful
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.
- Proverbs 6:5Torrey Often hunted by men
Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.
- Song of Songs 2:9Torrey ILLUSTRATIVE OF — Christ
My 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.
- Song of Songs 2:17Torrey ILLUSTRATIVE OF — Christ
Until 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.
- Song of Songs 4:5Torrey ILLUSTRATIVE OF — The church
Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins, which feed among the lilies.
- Song of Songs 7:3Torrey ILLUSTRATIVE OF — The church
Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins.
In the topical indexes
Torrey's New Topical Textbook (1897) · 14 references, grouped by sub-topic
Texts: Torrey's New Topical Textbook (1897), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.