Song of Solomon 7:5

Song of Solomon 7:5

3 ^aYour two breasts are like two fawns,
Twins of a gazelle.

4 ^aYour neck is like an ivory tower,
Your eyes like the pools in Heshbon
By the gate of Bath Rabbim.
Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon
Which looks toward Damascus.

5 Your head crowns you like Mount Carmel,
And the hair of your head is like purple;
A king is held captive by your tresses.

6 How fair and how pleasant you are,
O love, with your delights!

7 This stature of yours is like a palm tree,
And your breasts like its clusters.

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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upon thee—the headdress "upon" her.

Carmel—signifying a well-cultivated field (Isaiah 35:2). In Song of Solomon 5:15 He is compared to majestic Lebanon; she here, to fruitful Carmel. Her headdress, or crown (II Timothy 4:8; I Peter 5:4). Also the souls won by her (I Thessalonians 2:19-20), a token of her fruitfulness.

purple—royalty (Revelation 1:6). As applied to hair, it expresses the glossy splendor of black hair (literally, "pendulous hair") so much admired in the East (Song of Solomon 4:1). While the King compares her hair to the flowering hair of goats (the token of her subjection), the daughters of Jerusalem compare it to royal purple.

galleries—(so Song of Solomon 1:17, Margin; Revelation 21:3). But MAURER translates here, "flowing ringlets"; with these, as with "thongs" (so LEE, from the Arabic translates it) "the King is held" bound (Song of Solomon 6:5; Proverbs 6:25). Her purple crowns of martyrdom especially captivated the King, appearing from His galleries (Acts 7:55-56). As Samson's strength was in his locks (Judges 16:17). Here first the daughters see the King themselves.

**Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Song of Solomon 7:5:**

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