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Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing; for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof.
Read in context →Then Jesus went with them. And when he was now not far from the house, the centurion sent friends to him, saying unto him, Lord, trouble not thyself: for I am not worthy that thou shouldest enter under my roof:
Read in context →3 occurrences in 2 verses.
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gâg · gawg
a roof; by analogy, the top of an altar
Strong's KJV usage: roof (of the house), (house) top (of the house).
Strong's first: Deuteronomy 22:8Strong's last: Ezekiel 40:13
Open full H1406 profile →stégē · steg'-ay
a roof
Strong's KJV usage: :--roof.
Strong's first: Matthew 8:8Strong's last: Luke 7:6
Open full G4721 profile →qôwrâh · ko-raw'
a rafter (forming trenches as it were); by implication, a roof
Strong's KJV usage: beam, roof.
Strong's first: Genesis 19:8Strong's last: Genesis 19:8
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When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thine house, if any man fall from thence.
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ROOF, noun
1. The cover or upper part of a house or other building, consisting of rafters covered with boards, shingles or tiles, with a side or sides sloping from the ridge, for the purpose of carrying off the water that falls in rain or snow. In Asia, the roofs of houses are flat or horizontal. The same name, roof is given to the sloping covers of huts, cabins and ricks; to the arches of ovens, furnaces, etc.
2. A vault; an arch; or the interior of a vault; as the roof of heaven.
3. The vault of the mouth; the upper part of the mouth; the palate.
If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth. Psalms 137:6.
ROOF, verb transitive
1. To cover with a roof
I have not seen the remains of any Roman buildings, that have not been roofed with vaults or arches.
2. To inclose in a house; to shelter.
Here had we now our country's honor roof'd.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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