Fawn
עֹ֫פֶרStrong’s H6082opher (o-pher)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Opher is the Hebrew word usually translated “fawn of” and “fawns”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“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.”
Meaning
- Deer, fawn, stag, young hart
How it's translated
- fawn of 3
- fawns 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Song of Solomon 5
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Song of Solomon 2:17Until 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.
- Song of Solomon 4:5Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins, which feed among the lilies.
- Song of Solomon 7:3Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins.
- Song of Solomon 8:14Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.
Hebrew dictionary
עֹ֫פֶר opher · fawn
deer, fawn, stag, young hart
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “fawn” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
FAWN, noun
A young deer; a buck or doe of the first year.
All definitions and other forms of “fawn”
FAWN, verb intransitive
To bring forth a fawn
FAWN, verb intransitive
[See Fain.]
- To court favor, or show attachment to, by frisking about one; as, a dog fawns on his master.
- To soothe; to flatter meanly; to blandish; to court servilely; to cringe and bow to gain favor; as a fawning favorite or minion.
FAWN, noun
A servile cringe or bow; mean flattery.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.