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Lexicon :: Strong's G1393 - dorkas

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Δορκάς
Transliteration
dorkas (Key)
Pronunciation
dor-kas'
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Part of Speech
proper feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
Strong’s Definitions

Δορκάς Dorkás, dor-kas'; gazelle; Dorcas, a Christian woman:—Dorcas.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 2x

The KJV translates Strong's G1393 in the following manner: Dorcas (2x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 2x
The KJV translates Strong's G1393 in the following manner: Dorcas (2x).
  1. Dorcas = "gazelle"

    1. the name of a woman Peter raised from the dead

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
Δορκάς Dorkás, dor-kas'; gazelle; Dorcas, a Christian woman:—Dorcas.
STRONGS G1393:
Δορκάς, -άδος, , (properly, a wild she-goat, a gazelle, "παρὰ τὸ δέρκω, τὸ βλέπω· ὀξυδερκὲς γὰρ τὸ ζῷον κ. εὐόμματον" Etym. Magn. [284, 6]), Dorcas, a certain Christian woman: Acts 9:36, 39; see Ταβιθά.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Acts
9:36; 9:39

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G1393 matches the Greek Δορκάς (dorkas),
which occurs 12 times in 12 verses in the LXX Greek.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:15 -

“However, you may sacrifice and eat meat within any of your gates, [fn]whatever you desire, according to the blessing of Yahweh your God which He has given you; the unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle and the deer.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:22 - “Just as a gazelle or a deer is eaten, so you will eat it; the unclean and the clean alike may eat of it.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:5 - [fn]the deer, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope, and the mountain sheep.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:22 - “You shall eat it within your gates; the unclean and the clean alike may eat it, as a gazelle or a deer.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:18 -

Now the three sons of Zeruiah were there, Joab and Abishai and Asahel; and Asahel was as [fn]swift-footed as one of the gazelles which is in the field.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:23 - ten fat oxen, twenty [fn]pasture-fed oxen, one hundred sheep besides deer, gazelles, roebucks, and fattened fowl.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:8 -

From the Gadites, mighty men of valor separated themselves to David in the stronghold in the wilderness, men of war who had gone out for military duty, who could [fn]handle large shield and spear, and whose faces were like the faces of lions, and they were as swift as the gazelles on the mountains.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:5 -

Deliver yourself like a gazelle from the hunter’s hand

And like a bird from the hand of the fowler.

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 2:9 -

“My beloved is like a gazelle or a young [fn]stag.

Behold, he is standing behind our wall;

He gazes through the windows;

He is peering through the lattice.

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:5 -

“Your two breasts are like two fawns,

Twins of a gazelle

Which [fn]feed among the lilies.

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 7:3 -

“Your two breasts are like two fawns,

Twins of a gazelle.

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 8:14 -

[fn],[fn]Hurry, my beloved,

And be like a gazelle or a young [fn]stag

On the mountains of spices.”

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