Song of Solomon 6:11

nuts Heb. "ěghôz, a word found here only in the O.T., Arab. gawz, Syr. gauzo, Pers. djaus, dialectically aghuz. Probably it is borrowed from the Persian, like pardçs. It is properly the walnut, which is a native of Persia; Tristram, Nat. Hist. p. 413. It is largely cultivated in N. Palestine.

the fruits of the valley Rather, the green plants of the valley, as in R.V. The A.V. has followed the LXX and the Targum, probably, in translating the word for green plants by fruits. But cp. Job 8:12, where the word is used of the rush, "while it is yet in its greenness."

to see whether … the pomegranates buaded R.V. were in flower.