Caravaggio, Saint Jerome Writing (c. 1605), Galleria Borghese. Public domain.
5 verses in the King James Version. Word study for “being” →
And David gat him a name when he returned from smiting of the Syrians in the valley of salt, being eighteen thousand men .
And he said unto him, Why art thou, being the king’s son, lean from day to day? wilt thou not tell me? And Amnon said unto him, I love Tamar, my brother Absalom’s sister.
Howbeit he would not hearken unto her voice: but, being stronger than she, forced her, and lay with her.
And the people gat them by stealth that day into the city, as people being ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.
And Ishbi-benob, which was of the sons of the giant, the weight of whose spear weighed three hundred shekels of brass in weight, he being girded with a new sword , thought to have slain David.
