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6:13 The Lover to His Beloved: Turn <07725>, turn <07725>, O Perfect One <07759>! Turn <07725>, turn <07725>, that I may stare at <02372> you! The Beloved to Her Lover: Why <04100> do you gaze <02372> upon the Perfect One <07759> like the dance <04246> of the Mahanaim <04264>? 7:1 The Lover to His Beloved: How <04100> beautiful <03303> are your sandaled <05275> feet <06471>, O nobleman’s <05081> daughter <01323>! The curves <02542> of your thighs <03409> are like <03644> jewels <02481>, the work <04639> of the hands <03027> of a master craftsman <0542>. 7:2 Your navel <08326> is a round <05469> mixing bowl <0101>– may it never <0408> lack <02637> mixed wine <04197>! Your belly <0990> is a mound <06194> of wheat <02406>, encircled <05473> by lilies <07799>. 7:3 Your two <08147> breasts <07699> are like two <08147> fawns <06082>, twins <08380> of a gazelle <06646>. 7:4 Your neck <06677> is like a tower <04026> made of ivory <08127>. Your eyes <05869> are the pools <01295> in <05921> Heshbon <02809> by the gate <08179> of Bath-Rabbim <01337>. Your nose <0639> is like the tower <04026> of Lebanon <03844> overlooking <06822> Damascus <01834>. 7:5 Your head <07218> crowns you like Mount Carmel <03760>. The locks <01803> of your hair <07218> are like royal tapestries <0713>– the king <04428> is held captive <0631> in its tresses <07298>! 7:6 How <04100> beautiful <03302> you are! How <04100> lovely <05276>, O love <0160>, with your delights <08588>!

• Sos 6:13--7:6 -- The Love Song and Dance

• 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...
  

• Personification

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

• 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 ...
  

• NAVEL

  [isbe] NAVEL - na'-v'l (shor. The Septuagint in Prov 3:8 suggests a different reading, namely, instead of shorrekha, sherekha = she'erkha, "thy flesh")): The King James Version translates the Hebrew sharir in the description of Beh...
  

• Lebanon

  [isbe] LEBANON - leb'-a-non (lebanon; Septuagint Libanos; Vulgate (Jerome's Latin Bible, 390-405 A.D.) Libanus): 1. Name: Derived from the root labhen, "to be white," probably from the snow which covers its summits the greater part...
  [nave] LEBANON A mountain range. Northern boundary of the land of Canaan, Deut. 1:7; 3:25; 11:24; Josh. 1:4; 9:1. Early inhabitants of, Judg. 3:3. Snow of, Jer. 18:14. Streams of, Song 4:15. Cedars of, Judg. 9:15; 2 Kin. 19:23;...
  

• LILY

  [isbe] LILY - lil'-i (shushan (1 Ki 7:19), shoshannah (2 Ch 4:5; Song 2:1 f; Hos 14:5); plural (Song 2:16; 4:5; 5:13; 6:2 f; 7:2; Ecclesiasticus 39:14; 50:8); krinon (Mt 6:28; Lk 12:27)): The Hebrew is probably a loan word from the...
  

• JEWEL

  [isbe] JEWEL - ju'-el, joo'-el: An ornament of gold, silver or of precious stones in the form of armlet, bracelet, anklet, nose-ring, etc. Oriental dress yields itself freely to such adornment, to which there are many allusions in ...
  

• IVORY, TOWER OF

  [isbe] IVORY, TOWER OF - (mighdal hashen): In Song 7:4 the neck of the Shulammite is compared in whiteness and stateliness to a (or the) tower of ivory. The definite article may suggest that the comparison is with some actual tower...
  

• 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 ...
  

• GOBLET

  [isbe] GOBLET - gob'-let ('aggan): A bowl or basin (Song 7:2), the only place where the word is used. `Aggan is used in the plural in Ex 24:6 and Isa 22:24, and is translated "basins" and "cups." These "basins" were used to hold th...
  

• GAZELLE

  [isbe] GAZELLE - ga-zel' (tsebhi, and feminine tsebhiyah; compare Tabeitha (Acts 9:36), and Arabic zabi; also Arabic ghazal; Dorkas (Acts 9:36); modern Greek zarkadi): The word "gazelle" does not occur in the King James Version, wh...
  

• GAMES

  [isbe] GAMES - gamz: I. ISRAELITISH GAMES 1. Children's Games Mimicry 2. Sports 3. Games of Chance and Skill 4. Story-Telling 5. Dancing 6. Proverbs 7. Riddles II. THE GAMES OF GREECE AND ROME 1. Historical Introduction 2. General ...
  

• GALLERY

  [isbe] GALLERY - gal'-er-i: (1) ('attuq, Kethibh; 'attik, used only in Ezek 41:16; 42:3,1; etymology and meaning uncertain; among the more probable suggestions are "pillar," "column," "walk with pillars," "colonnades," "passageway,...
  

• 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:...
  

• FISHPOOLS

  [isbe] FISHPOOLS - fish'-pools: This is a mistranslation. The Hebrew berekhoth (Song 7:4) simply means "pools" (Revised Version); "fish" is quite unwarrantably introduced in the King James Version. In Isa 19:10, again, instead of "...
  

• CUNNING

  [isbe] CUNNING - kun'-ing (chakham, chashabh): In Bible-English "cunning" means always "wise" or "skilful"; the word does not occur in the bad sense, and it is found in the Old Testament only. The chief Hebrew words are chakham, "w...
  

• COMPANY

  [isbe] COMPANY - kum'-pa-ni: The fertility of the original languages in synonyms and varied shades of meaning is seen by the fact that 20 Hebrew and 12 Greek words are represented by this single term. An analysis of these words sho...
  

• 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...
  

• BATHRABBIM

  [smith] (daughter of many), The gate of, One of the gates of the ancient city of heshbon. (Solomon 7:4,5)
  

• BATH-RABBIM, THE GATE OF

  [isbe] BATH-RABBIM, THE GATE OF - bath-rab'-im, (sha`ar bath-rabbim; Septuagint en pulais thugatros pollon, literally "in the gates of the daughter of the many." The gate of Heshbon near which were the pools compared to the Shulamm...
  

• Song of Songs

  

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