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The Song of Songs 7:9

NETBible	May your mouth¹ be like the best wine, flowing smoothly for my beloved, gliding gently over our lips as we sleep together.²
NIV © biblegateway Sos 7:9	and your mouth like the best wine. May the wine go straight to my lover, flowing gently over lips and teeth.
NASB © biblegateway Sos 7:9	And your mouth like the best wine!" "It goes down smoothly for my beloved, Flowing gently through the lips of those who fall asleep.
NLT © biblegateway Sos 7:9	May your kisses be as exciting as the best wine, smooth and sweet, flowing gently over lips and teeth."
MSG © biblegateway Sos 7:9	your tongue and lips like the best wine. Yes, and yours are, too--my love's kisses flow from his lips to mine.
BBE © SABDAweb Sos 7:9	And the roof of your mouth like good wine flowing down smoothly for my loved one, moving gently over my lips and my teeth.
NRSV © bibleoremus Sos 7:9	and your kisses like the best wine that goes down smoothly, gliding over lips and teeth.
NKJV © biblegateway Sos 7:9	And the roof of your mouth like the best wine. THE SHULAMITE The wine goes down smoothly for my beloved, Moving gently the lips of sleepers.
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KJV	And the roof of thy mouth <02441> like the best <02896> wine <03196> for my beloved <01730>_, that goeth <01980> (8802) [down] sweetly <04339>_, causing the lips <08193> of those that are asleep <03463> to speak <01680> (8802)_. {sweetly: Heb. straightly} {of those...: or, of the ancient}
NASB © biblegateway Sos 7:9	And your mouth <02441> like the best <02896> wine <03196> !" "It goes <01980> down smoothly <04339> for my beloved <01730> , Flowing <01680> gently <01680> through the lips <08193> of those who <03463> fall <03463> asleep <03463> .
LXXM	(7:10) kai <2532> CONJ larugx <2995> N-NSM sou <4771> P-GS wv <3739> CONJ oinov <3631> N-NSM o <3588> T-NSM agayov <18> A-NSM poreuomenov <4198> V-PMPNS tw <3588> T-DSM adelfidw {N-DSM} mou <1473> P-GS eiv <1519> PREP euyuyhta <2118> N-ASF ikanoumenov <2427> V-PMPNS ceilesin <5491> N-DPN mou <1473> P-GS kai <2532> CONJ odousin <3599> N-DPM
NET [draft] ITL	May your mouth <02441> be like the best <02896> wine <03196> , flowing <01980> smoothly <04339> for my beloved <01730> , gliding gently <01680> over our lips <08193> as we sleep <03462> together.
HEBREW	Mynsy <03462> ytpv <08193> bbwd <01680> Myrsyml <04339> ydwdl <01730> Klwh <01980> bwjh <02896> Nyyk <03196> Kkxw <02441> (7:9) <7:10>

NETBible

May your mouth¹ be like the best wine, flowing smoothly for my beloved, gliding gently over our lips as we sleep together.²

NET Notes

¹tn The term חֵךְ (khek, “palate, mouth”) is often used as a metonymy for what the mouth produces, e.g., the mouth is the organ of taste (Ps 119:103; Job 12:11; 20:13; 34:3; Prov 24:13; Song 2:3), speech (Job 6:30; 31:30; 33:2; Prov 5:3; 8:7), sound (Hos 8:1), and kisses (Song 5:16; 7:10) (HALOT 313 s.v. חֵךְ; BDB 335 s.v. חֵךְ). The metonymical association of her palate/mouth and her kisses is made explicit by RSV which translated the term as “kisses.”

²tc The MT reads שִׁפְתֵי יְשֵׁנִים (shifte yÿshenim, “lips of those who sleep”). However, an alternate Hebrew reading of שְׂפָתַי וְשִׁנָּי (sÿfata vÿsinna, “my lips and my teeth”) is suggested by the Greek tradition (LXX, Aquila, Symmachus): χείλεσίν μου καὶ ὀδοῦσιν (ceilesin mou kai odousin, “my lips and teeth”). This alternate reading, with minor variations, is followed by NAB, NIV, NRSV, TEV, NLT.

²tn Or “his lips as he falls asleep.” Heb “the lips of sleepers.” Alternately, “over lips and teeth” (so NIV, NRSV, NLT).