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1:5 The Beloved to the Maidens: I <0589> am dark <07838> but lovely <05000>, O maidens <01323> of Jerusalem <03389>, dark like the tents <0168> of Qedar <06938>, lovely like the tent curtains <03407> of Salmah <08010>. 1:6 Do not <0408> stare <07200> at me because I <0589> am dark <07840>, for the sun <08121> has burned <07805> my skin. My brothers <0517> <01121> were angry <02787> with me; they made <07760> me the keeper <05201> of the vineyards <03754>. Alas, my own vineyard <03754> I could not <03808> keep <05201>! 1:7 The Beloved to Her Lover: Tell <05046> me, O you whom my heart <05315> loves <0157>, where <0349> do you pasture <07462> your sheep? Where <0349> do you rest <07257> your sheep during the midday <06672> heat? Tell me lest I wander around <05844> beside <05921> the flocks <05739> of your companions <02270>! 1:8 The Lover to His Beloved: If <0518> you do not <03808> know <03045>, O most beautiful <03303> of women <0802>, simply follow <03318> the tracks <06119> of my flock <06629>, and pasture <07462> your little lambs <01429> beside <05921> the tents <04908> of the shepherds <07462>. 1:9 The Lover to His Beloved: O my beloved <07474>, you are like <01819> a mare <05484> among Pharaoh’s <06547> stallions <07393>. 1:10 Your cheeks <03895> are beautiful <04998> with ornaments <08447>; your neck <06677> is lovely with strings of jewels <02737>. 1:11 We will make <06213> for you gold <02091> ornaments <08447> studded <05351> with <05973> silver <03701>. 1:12 The Beloved about Her Lover: While <05704> the king <04428> was at his banqueting table <04524>, my nard <05373> gave <05414> forth its fragrance <07381>. 1:13 My beloved <01730> is like a fragrant pouch <06872> of myrrh <04753> spending the night <03885> between <0996> my breasts <07699>. 1:14 My beloved <01730> is like a cluster <0811> of henna <03724> blossoms in the vineyards <03754> of En-Gedi <05872>. 1:15 The Lover to His Beloved: Oh <02005>, how beautiful <03303> you are, my beloved <07474>! Oh <02005>, how beautiful <03303> you are! Your eyes <05869> are like doves <03123>! 1:16 The Beloved to Her Lover: Oh, how <02005> handsome <03303> you are, my lover <01730>! Oh, how delightful <05273> you are! The lush foliage <07488> is our canopied bed <06210>; 1:17 the cedars <0730> are the beams <06982> of our bedroom chamber <01004>; the pines <01266> are the rafters <07351> of our bedroom.

• Sos 1:5-6 -- The Country Maiden and the Daughters of Jerusalem
• Sos 1:7-8 -- The Shepherd and the Shepherdess
• Sos 1:9-14 -- The Beautiful Mare and the Fragrant Myrrh
• Sos 1:15-17 -- Mutual Praise and Admiration

• Fellowship

  [nave] FELLOWSHIP. Eccl. 4:9-12; Amos 3:3 See: Fraternity; Fellowship. With God Gen. 5:22, 24; Gen. 6:9; Ex. 29:45; Ex. 33:14-17; Lev. 26:12; Isa. 57:15; Zech. 2:10; Mark 9:37; John 14:23; John 17:21, 23; 2 Cor. 6:16; 2 Cor. 13:...
  

• Personification

  [nave] PERSONIFICATION Of wisdom, Prov. 1; 2:1-9; 8; 9. possibly of the Church or Israel, Song 1-8.
  

• Song

  [nave] SONG Sung at the passover, Matt. 26:30; Mark 14:26. Didactic, Deut. 32. See: Psalms, Didactic. Impersonation of the church, Song 1-8. Of Moses and the Lamb, Rev. 15:3, 4. New, Psa. 33:3; 40:3. Prophetic, See: Psalms, P...
  

• PALESTINE, 3

  [isbe] PALESTINE, 3 - IV. Palestine in the Poetic Books of the Old Testament. 1. Book of Job: In Job the scene is distinctively Edomite. Uz (Job 1:1; compare Gen 22:21 the English Revised Version; Jer 25:20; Lam 4:21) and Buz (Job ...
  

• PAPYRUS

  [isbe] PAPYRUS - pa-pi'-rus (Cyperus papyrus; bublos, biblos, whence biblion, a roll, ta biblia, "the Books" = the Bible): 1. Papyrus Paper 2. Egyptian Papyri 3. Aramaic Papyri 4. Greek Papyri 5. Their Discovery. 6. Classical Papyr...
  

• TENT

  [isbe] TENT - tent ('ohel; skene; 'ohel is a derivative of 'ahal, "to be clear," "to shine"; hence, 'ohel, "to be conspicuous from a distance"): In the great stretches of uncultivated lands in the interior of Syria or Arabia, which...
  [smith] Among the leading characteristics of the nomad races, those two have always been numbered whose origin has been ascribed to Jabal the son of Lameth, (Genesis 4:20) viz., to be tent-dwellers and keepers of cattle. The same may...
  

• Lovers

  [nave] LOVERS. Instances of Isaac for Rebekah, Gen. 24:67. Jacob for Rachel, Gen. 29:20, 30. Shechem for Dinah, Gen. 34:3, 12. Boaz for Ruth, Ruth 2-4. of romance, mistresses, paramours Song 1:13, 14, 16; 2:3, 8, 9, 10, 16, 1...
  

• COLOR; COLORS

  [isbe] COLOR; COLORS - kul'-er, kul'-erz: The word translated "color" in the King James Version is `ayin, which literally means "eye" or "appearance," and has been so translated in the Revised Version (British and American). In the...
  

• Spikenard

  [isbe] SPIKENARD - spik'-nard (nerd; nardos (Song 1:12; 4:14); neradhim; nardoi (Song 4:13), "spikenard plants"; nardos pistike (Mk 14:3; Jn 12:3), "pure nard," margin "liquid nard"; the English word is for "spiked nard," which com...
  [smith] (Heb. nerd) is mentioned twice in the Old Testament viz. in (Solomon 1:12; 4:13,14) The ointment with which our Lord was anointed as he sat at meat in Simon?s house at Bethany consisted of this precious substance, the costlin...
  [nave] SPIKENARD An aromatic plant, Song 4:13, 14. Perfume prepared from, Song 1:12. A fragrant oil from, used in anointing, Mark 14:3; John 12:3.
  

• GOAT

  [isbe] GOAT - got: 1. Names: The common generic word for "goat" is `ez (compare Arabic `anz, "she-goat"; aix), used often for "she-goat" (Gen 15:9; Nu 15:27), also with gedhi, "kid," as gedhi `izzim, "kid of the goats" (Gen 38:17),...
  

• HAIR

  [isbe] HAIR - har (se`ar, sa`ar, Aramaic se`ar, and their derivatives; thrix, gen. case trichos, kome): 1. Hair Fashions: Hair was worn in different fashions by the Orientals of Biblical times, and not always in the same way among ...
  [smith] The Hebrews were fully alive to the importance of the hair as an element of personal beauty. Long hair was admired in the case of young men. (2 Samuel 14:26) In times of affliction the hair was altogether cut off. (Isaiah ...
  

• Shepherd

  [smith] In a nomadic state of society every man, from the sheikh down to the slave, is more or less a shepherd. The progenitors of the Jews in the patriarchal age were nomads, and their history is rich in scenes of pastoral life. The...
  [nave] SHEPHERD One who cares for flocks, Gen. 31:38-40; Psa. 78:52, 53; Jer. 31:10; Amos 3:12; Luke 2:8. David the, defends his flock against a lion and a bear, 1 Sam. 17:34, 35. Causes the flock to rest, Psa. 23:2; Song 1:7; Je...
  

• House

  [isbe] HOUSE - hous (bayith; oikos, in classical Greek generally "an estate," oikia, oikema (literally, "habitation"), in Acts 12:1, "prison"): I. CAVE DWELLINGS II. STONE-BUILT AND MUD/BRICK-BUILT HOUSES 1. Details of Plan and Con...
  [nave] HOUSE Built of stone, Lev. 14:40-45; Isa. 9:10; Amos 5:11; brick, Gen. 11:3; Ex. 1:11-14; Isa. 9:10; wood, Song 1:17; Isa. 9:10. Built into city walls, Josh. 2:15. Used for worship, Acts 1:13, 14; 12:12; Rom. 16:5; 1 Cor. ...
  

• En-gedi

  [isbe] EN-GEDI - en'-ge-di, en-ge'-di (`en gedhi, "fountain of the kid"): Identical with the present Ain Jidi. According to 2 Ch 20:2 it is the same as Hazazon-tamar, mentioned in Gen 14:7 as occupied by the Amorites and as having ...
  [nave] EN-GEDI, called Hazezon-tamar. A city allotted to Judah, Josh. 15:62. Built by the Amorites, Gen. 14:7; 2 Chr. 20:2. Famous for its vineyards, Song 1:14. Wilderness of, in the vicinity of the Dead Sea. David uses as a stro...
  

• BELOVED

  [isbe] BELOVED - be-luv'-ed, be-luv'-d' (agapetos): A term of affectionate endearment common to both Testaments; in the Old Testament found, 26 out of 42 times, in Solomon's Song of Love. Limited chiefly to two Heb words and their ...
  

• BED; BEDCHAMBER; BEDSTEAD

  [isbe] BED; BEDCHAMBER; BEDSTEAD - For the very poor of the East, in ancient times as now, the "bed" was and is, as a rule, the bare ground; and the bedclothes, the gown, simlah, or "outer garment," worn during the day ("For that i...
  

• DOVE

  [isbe] DOVE - duv (tor, yonah; peristera; Latin Zenaedura carolinensis): A bird of the family Columbidae. Doves and pigeons are so closely related as to be spoken and written of as synonymous, yet there is a distinction recognized ...
  [smith] The first menton of this bird occurs in Gen. 8. The dove?s rapidity of flight is alluded to in (Psalms 55:6) the beauty of its plumage in (Psalms 68:13) its dwelling int he rocks and valleys in (Jeremiah 48:28) and Ezek 7:16 ...
  

• VINE

  [smith] the well-known valuable plant (vitis vinifera) very frequently referred to in the Old and New Testaments, and cultivated from the earliest times. The first mention of this plant occurs in (Genesis 9:20,21) That it was abundan...
  

• Breast

  [nave] BREAST parts of a sacrifice: Ex. 29:26, 27; Lev. 7:30, 30, 31, 34; 8:29; 9:20, 21; 10:14, 15; Num. 6:20; 18:18 area of the lap, chest: Jer. 31:19; Ezek. 21:12; Luke 18:13; 23:48; John 13:25; 21:20; Rev. 1:13; 15:6 of women: ...
  

• SPICE, SPICES

  [smith] Heb. basam, besem or bosem . In (Solomon 5:1) "I have gathered my myrrh with my spice," the word points apparently to some definite substance. In the other places, with the exception perhaps of (Solomon 1:13; 6:2) the words ...
  

• Song of Songs

  

• [Sos 1:14] As The Bridegroom To His Chosen

  As the bridegroom to his chosen, As the king unto his realm, As keep unto the castle, As the pilot to the helm, So, Lord, art Thou to me. As the fountain in the garden, As the candle in the dark, As the treasure in the coffer, As the manna in the ark, So, Lord, art Thou to me. As the ruby in the setting, As the honey in the comb, As the light within the lantern, As the father in the home, So, Lord, art Thou to me. As the sunshine in the heavens, As the image in the glass, As the fruits upon the fig tree, As the dew upon the grass, So, Lord, art Thou to me.

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• What Is "Loving God" and What Does It Avail?
  Love to God is commanded (Deu. 11:1) and is, indeed, the one great commandment (Matt. 22:38). It should be with all the heart, and is better than sacrifice (Deu. 6:5; Mark 12:33). It's produced by the Holy Ghost and engendere...

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