Genesis 33:14
Let my lord, I pray thee, pass over before his servant: and I will lead on softly, according as the cattle that goeth before me and the children be able to endure, until I come unto my lord unto Seir.
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Softly
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Acts 27:13
And when the south wind blew softly, supposing that they had obtained their purpose, loosing thence, they sailed close by Crete.
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אַט
ʼaṭ · at
3 times translated as this KJV form6 total Strong's occurrences
(as a noun) a necromancer (from their soft incantations), (as an adverb) gently
Strong's KJV usage: charmer, gently, secret, softly.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 33:14Strong's last: Isaiah 8:6
Open full H328 profile →ὑποπνέω
hypopnéō · hoop-op-neh'-o
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
to breathe gently, i.e. breeze
Strong's KJV usage: :--blow softly.
Strong's first: Acts 27:13Strong's last: Acts 27:13
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dâdâh · daw-daw'
1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
to walk gently
Strong's KJV usage: go (softly, with).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Isaiah 38:15Strong's last: Isaiah 38:15
Open full H1718 profile →לָאט
lâʼṭ · lawt
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
properly, muffled, i.e. silently
Strong's KJV usage: softly.
Strong's first: Judges 4:21Strong's last: Judges 4:21
Open full H3814 profile →לָט
lâṭ · lawt
1 times translated as this KJV form6 total Strong's occurrences
properly, covered, i.e. secret; by implication, incantation; also secrecy or (adverb) covertly
Strong's KJV usage: enchantment, privily, secretly, softly.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Ruth 3:7Strong's last: Ruth 3:7
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H328
Let my lord, I pray thee, pass over before his servant: and I will lead on softly, according as the cattle that goeth before me and the children be able to endure, until I come unto my lord unto Seir.
H3814
Then Jael Heber's wife took a nail of the tent, and took an hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and smote the nail into his temples, and fastened it into the ground: for he was fast asleep and weary. So he died.
H3909
And when Boaz had eaten and drunk, and his heart was merry, he went to lie down at the end of the heap of corn: and she came softly, and uncovered his feet, and laid her down.
H328
And it came to pass, when Ahab heard those words, that he rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly.
H328
Forasmuch as this people refuseth the waters of Shiloah that go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah's son;
H1718
What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done it: I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.
G5285
And when the south wind blew softly, supposing that they had obtained their purpose, loosing thence, they sailed close by Crete.
English meaning and historical usage.
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softly
SOFT'LY, adverb
1. Without hardness.
2. Not with force or violence; gently; as, be softly pressed my hand.
3. Not loudly; without noise; as, speak softly; walk softly In this dark silence softly leave the town.
4. Gently; placidly. She softly lays him on a flowery bed.
5. Mildly; tenderly. The king must die; though pity softly pleads within my soul.
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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