Job 24:8
They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
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Shelter
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Psalms 61:3
For thou hast been a shelter for me, and a strong tower from the enemy.
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מַחֲסֶה
machăçeh · makh-as-eh'
2 times translated as this KJV form20 total Strong's occurrences
a shelter (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: hope, (place of) refuge, shelter, trust.
Strong's first: Job 24:8Strong's last: Psalms 61:3
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They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
H4268
For thou hast been a shelter for me, and a strong tower from the enemy.
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shelter
SHEL'TER, noun [Latin celo.]
1. That which covers or defends from injury or annoyance. A house is a shelter from rain and other inclemencies of the weather; the foliage of a tree is a shelter from the rays of the sun.
The healing plant shall aid,
From storms a shelter, and from heat a shade. Pope.
2. The state of being covered and protected; protection; security.
Who into shelter takes their tender bloom. Young.
3. He that defends or guards from danger.
SHEL'TER, verb transitive
1. To cover from violence, injury, annoyance or attack; as a valley sheltered from the north wind by a mountain.
Those ruins shelter'd once his sacred head. Dryden.
We besought the deep shelter to us. Milton.
2. To defend; to protect from danger; to secure or render safe; to harbor.
What endless shall you gain,
to save and shelter Troy's unhappy train? Dryden.
3. To betake to cover or a safe place.
They sheltered themselves under a rock. Abbot.
4. To cover from notice; to disguise for protection.
In vain I strove to check my growing flame,
Or shelter passion under friendship's name. Prior.
SHEL'TER, verb intransitive To take shelter
There the Indian herdsman shunning heat,
Shelters in cool. Milton.
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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