“roes” in the Douay-Rheims Bible
The word roes appears 6 times in the Douay-Rheims Bible. The first 6 matching verses are shown below.
- 2 Kings 2:18 And there were the three sons of Sarvia there, Joab, and Abisai, and Asael: now Asael was a most swift runner, like one of the roes that abide in the woods.
- 3 Kings 4:23 Ten fat oxen, and twenty out of the pastures, and a hundred rams; besides venison of harts, roes, and buffles, and fatted fowls.
- Canticle of Canticles 2:7 I adjure you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and the harts of the fields, that you stir not up, nor make the beloved to awake, till she please.
- Canticle of Canticles 3:5 I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes and the harts of the fields, that you stir not up, nor awake my beloved, till she please.
- Canticle of Canticles 4:5 Thy two breasts like two young roes that are twins, which feed among the lilies.
- Canticle of Canticles 7:3 Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins.