Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
mandrakes—Hebrew, dudaim, from a root meaning "to love"; love apples, supposed to exhilarate the spirits and excite love. Only here and Genesis 30:14-16. Atropa mandragora of LINNÆUS; its leaves like lettuce, but dark green, flowers purple, root forked, fruit of the size of an apple, ruddy and sweet-smelling, gathered in wheat harvest, that is, in May (Mariti, ii. 195).
gates—the entrance to the kiosk or summer house. Love "lays up" the best of everything for the person beloved (I Corinthians 10:31; Philippians 3:8; I Peter 4:11), thereby really, though unconsciously, laying up for itself (I Timothy 6:18-19).
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Song of Solomon 7:13:
Isaiah 48:6
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