Pair
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( n.) Two of a sort; a span; a yoke; a couple; a brace; as, a pair of horses; a pair of oxen.
(2): ( n.) Two things of a kind, similar in form, suited to each other, and intended to be used together; as, a pair of gloves or stockings; a pair of shoes.
(3): ( v. i.) To be joined in paris; to couple; to mate, as for breeding.
(4): ( n.) A married couple; a man and wife.
(5): ( n.) Two members of opposite parties or opinion, as in a parliamentary body, who mutually agree not to vote on a given question, or on issues of a party nature during a specified time; as, there were two pairs on the final vote.
(6): ( n.) In a mechanism, two elements, or bodies, which are so applied to each other as to mutually constrain relative motion.
(7): ( v. t.) To unite in couples; to form a pair of; to bring together, as things which belong together, or which complement, or are adapted to one another.
(8): ( v. t.) To engage (one's self) with another of opposite opinions not to vote on a particular question or class of questions.
(9): ( v. t.) To impair.
(10): ( n.) A number of things resembling one another, or belonging together; a set; as, a pair or flight of stairs. "A pair of beads." Chaucer. Beau. & Fl. "Four pair of stairs." Macaulay. [Now mostly or quite disused, except as to stairs.]
(11): ( n.) A single thing, composed of two pieces fitted to each other and used together; as, a pair of scissors; a pair of tongs; a pair of bellows.
(12): ( v. i.) To suit; to fit, as a counterpart.
(13): ( v. i.) Same as To pair off. See phrase below.
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [2]
"a yoke" (akin to zeugnumi, "to yoke"), is used (a) of beasts, Luke 14:19; (b) of a pair of anything; in Luke 2:24 , of turtledoves. See Yoke.
Revelation 6:5BalanceYoke.
King James Dictionary [3]
PAIR, n. L. par Heb. to join, couple or associate.
1. Two things of a kind, similar in form, applied to the same purpose,and suited to each other or used together as a pair of gloves or stockings a pair of shoes a pair of oxen or horses. 2. Two of a sort a couple a brace as a pair of nerves a pair of doves. Luke 2 .
PAIR, To be joined in pairs to couple, as, birds pair in summer.
1. To suit to fit as a counterpart.
Ethelinda,
My heart was made to fit and pair with thine.
PAIR, To unite in couples as minds paired in heaven.
1. To unite as correspondent, or rather to contrast.
Glossy jet is paired with shining white.
PAIR, To impair. See Impair.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [4]
pâr : The margin of Song of Solomon 4:2 (but not of the parallel Song of Solomon 6:6 ) reads, "which are all of them in pairs," while the text has, "whereof every one hath twins." The Hebrew מתאימות , math'ı̄mōth , is from the root, tā'am , "to be double," and is perhaps susceptible of either meaning. But the description is of sheep, and the margin gives no comprehensible figure, while the text points to the exceedingly sleek and healthy appearance. "Pairs" seems to result from confusing the figure with the thing figured - the teeth, where each upper is paired with the corresponding lower.
