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8:1 The Beloved to Her Lover: Oh, how <05414> <04310> I wish you were my little brother <0251>, nursing <03243> at my mother’s <0517> breasts <07699>; if I saw <04672> you outside <02351>, I could kiss <05401> you– surely <01571> no <03808> one would despise <0936> me! 8:2 I would lead <05090> you and bring <0935> you to <0413> my mother’s <0517> house <01004>, the one who taught <03925> me. I would give <08248> you spiced <07544> wine <03196> to drink <08248>, the nectar <06071> of my pomegranates <07416>. 8:3 The Beloved about Her Lover: His left hand <08040> caresses <08478> my head <07218>, and his right hand <03225> stimulates <02263> me. 8:4 The Beloved to the Maidens: I admonish <07650> you, O maidens <01323> of Jerusalem <03389>: “Do not arouse <05782> or awaken <05782> love <0160> until <05704> it pleases <02654>!” 8:5 The Maidens about His Beloved: Who <04310> is this <02063> coming up <05927> from <04480> the desert <04057>, leaning <07514> on <05921> her beloved? The Beloved <01730> to Her Lover: Under <08478> the apple tree <08598> I aroused <05782> you; there <08033> your mother <0517> conceived <02254> you, there <08033> she who bore you was in labor <02254> of childbirth <03205>. 8:6 The Beloved to Her Lover: Set <07760> me like a cylinder seal <02368> over <05921> your heart <03820>, like a signet <02368> on <05921> your arm <02220>. For <03588> love <0160> is as strong <05794> as death <04194>, passion <07068> is as unrelenting <07186> as Sheol <07585>. Its flames burst forth <07565>, it is a blazing <0784> flame <07957>. 8:7 Surging <07227> waters <04325> cannot <03201> <03808> quench <03518> love <0160>; floodwaters <05104> cannot <03808> overflow <07857> it. If <0518> someone <0376> were to offer <05414> all <03605> his possessions <01004> <01952> to buy love <0160>, the offer would be utterly <0936> despised <0936>.

• Sos 8:1-2 -- The Beloved's Wish Song
• Sos 8:3-4 -- Double Refrain: Embracing and Adjuration
• Sos 8:5 -- The Awakening of Love
• Sos 8:6-7 -- The Nature of True Love

• WINE; WINE PRESS

  [isbe] WINE; WINE PRESS - win, win'-pres: I. Terms. 1. Wine: (1) (~yayin), apparently from a non-Tsere root allied to Greek oinos, Latin vinum, etc. This is the usual word for "wine" and is found 141 times in Massoretic Text. (2) c...
  

• VEHEMENT, VEHEMENTLY

  [isbe] VEHEMENT, VEHEMENTLY - ve'-he-ment, ve'-he-ment-li (charishi; epipothesis): "Vehement" (from Latin vehere, "to carry," or ve, "out of," and mens, "mind"), carried away by the mind or force of passion, occurs twice in the Old...
  

• SPICE; SPICES

  [isbe] SPICE; SPICES - spis, spi'-sis, -sez: (1) (besem (Ex 30:23), bosem, plural besamim, all from root "to attract by desire," especially by smell): The list of spices in Ex 30:23 includes myrrh, cinnamon, "sweet calamus cassia."...
  

• SONG OF SONGS

  [isbe] SONG OF SONGS - (shir hashirim; Septuagint Asma; Codices Sinaiticus, Alexandrinus, Ephraemi, Asma asmaton; Vulgate (Jerome's Latin Bible, 390-405 A.D.) Canticum Canticorum): I. CANONICITY II. TEXT III. AUTHORSHIP AND DATE IV...
  

• SEAL

  [isbe] SEAL - sel (substantive chotham, "seal," "signet," Tabba`ath, "signet-ring"; Aramaic `izqa'; sphragis; verb chatham, (Aramaic chatham); (sphragizo), (katasphragizomai, "to seal"): I. Literal Sense. A seal is an instrument of...
  

• QUENCH

  [isbe] QUENCH - kwench, kwensh: Where the word is used of fire or of thirst it has the usual meaning: "to allay," "to extinguish," "to suppress," "to cool." In the Old Testament it is frequently applied to the affections and passio...
  

• Personification

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

• PURITY

  [isbe] PURITY - pu'-ri-ti: The Bible bears witness to the long struggle over and in man to secure physical, mental, and moral cleanliness. The various forms of purity have relation to each other. We have a common proverb that "clea...
  

• 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 ...
  

• KISS

  [isbe] KISS - (nashaq; phileo, kataphilo, philema): The kiss is common in eastern lands in salutation, etc., on the cheek, the forehead, the beard, the hands, the feet, but not (in Pal) the lips (Cheyne, E B, under the word "Saluta...
  [smith] Kissing the lips by way of affectionate salutation was customary among near relatives of both sexes, in both patriarchal and later times. (Genesis 29:11; Solomon 8:1) Between individuals of the same sex, and in a limited degr...
  

• JUICE

  [isbe] JUICE - joos, jus: The word occurs once in Song 8:2 (translation of `acic, the Revised Version margin "sweet wine"), and once in the Revised Version margin of Job 6:6, where for "the white of an egg" margin reads, "the juice...
  

• HAGGAI

  [isbe] HAGGAI - hag'-a-i, hag'-a-i (chaggay, an adjective formed from chagh, "feast"): 1. Name: The word "Haggai" may mean "festal," the prophet having been born perhaps on a festival day; compare the Roman name "Festus." Hebrew pr...
  

• 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:...
  

• FLAME

  [isbe] FLAME - flam (lahabh, and other forms from same root; phlox): In Jdg 13:20 bis; Job 41:21; Isa 29:6; Joel 2:5, the word is lahabh. Various other words are translated "flame"; mas'eth, "a lifting or rising up" (Jdg 20:38,40 t...
  

• EMBRACE

  [isbe] EMBRACE - em-bras': The word has two distinct meanings in the Old Testament: (1) to clasp and hold fondly in the arms, pointing to a common custom (Gen 29:13; 33:4; 48:10; 2 Ki 4:16; Song 2:6; 8:3; compare Acts 20:10), and (...
  

• DRINK, STRONG

  [isbe] DRINK, STRONG - (shekhar; sikera; from shakhar, "to be or become drunk"; probably from the same root as sugar, saccharine): With the exception of Nu 28:7, "strong drink" is always coupled with "wine." The two terms are commo...
  

• COAL

  [isbe] COAL - kol (pecham, "charcoal"; compare Arabic fachm, "charcoal"; gacheleth, "burning coal" or "hot ember"; compare Arabic jacham, "to kindle"; shechor, "a black coal" (Lam 4:8); compare Arabic shachchar, "soot" or "dark-col...
  

• APPLE; APPLE-TREE

  [isbe] APPLE; APPLE-TREE - ap'-l ap'-l tre, (tappuach): A fruit tree and fruit mentioned chiefly in Cant, concerning the true nature of which there has been much dispute. Song 2:3 says: "As the apple-tree among the trees of the woo...
  

• APPLE TREE, APPLE

  [smith] (Heb. tappuach). Mention of the apple tree occurs in the Authorized Version in (Solomon 2:3; 8:5) and Joel 1:12 The fruit of this tree is alluded to in (Proverbs 25:11) and Song 2:5; 7:8 It is a difficult matter to say what i...
  

• AMULET

  [isbe] AMULET - am'-u-let (qemia, lechashim, mezuzah, tephillin, tsitsith; phulakterion): Modern scholars are of opinion that our English word amulet comes from the Latin amuletum, used by Pliny (Naturalis Historia, xxviii, 28; xxx...
  

• Song of Songs

  

• [Sos 8:5] Who Is This Fair One In Distress?

  Who is this fair one in distress, That travels from the wilderness? And pressed with sorrows and with sins, On her belovèd Lord she leans. This is the spouse of Christ our God, Bought with the treasure of His blood; And her request and her complaint Is but the voice of every saint. “O let my name engraven stand Both on Thy heart and on Thy hand; Seal me upon Thine arm, and wear That pledge of love for ever there. “Stronger than death Thy love is known, Which floods of wrath could never drown; And hell and earth in vain combine To quench a fire so much divine. “But I am jealous of my heart, Lest it should once from Thee depart; Then let Thy Name be well impressed, As a fair signet on my breast. “Till Thou hast brought me to Thy home, Where fears and doubts can never come, Thy countenance let me often see, And often Thou shalt hear from me. “Come, my Belovèd, haste away, Cut short the hours of Thy delay; Fly like a youthful hart or roe Over the hills where spices grow.”

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• Does the Bible speak more about Hell than Heaven?
  I've heard and read the same statement a number of times, but have never troubled myself to look up each passage. I'm not surprised that looking up "heaven" and "hell" in a concordance would give you contradictory results. T...
• 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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