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Song of Solomon 7:2
Wine and wheat were among the most important and valuable agricultural products in Israel.
Wine and wheat were among the most important and valuable agricultural products in Israel.
Verse Song of Solomon 7:2. _THY NAVEL_ IS LIKE _A ROUND GOBLET_] This may also refer to some ornamental dress about the _loins_. These suppositions are rendered very probable from hundreds of the best...
Or, Thy lap is like a moon-shaped bowl where mixed wine faileth not.” The wine in the bowl rising to the brim adds to the beauty of the vessel, and gives a more pleasing image to the eye. Some interpr...
CHAPTER 7 The rapturous outburst in praise of the bride, the saved and glorified remnant of Israel, with which this chapter begins, must not be put into the lips of the bridegroom, the Messiah-King. I...
SONG OF SOLOMON 6:13 TO SONG OF SOLOMON 8:4. THE DANCING BRIDE AND THE RAPTURE OF LOVE. This section also is probably composed of different lyrics, though it is difficult to separate them; we have fir...
LIQUOR. spiced wine. BELLY. body....
Song of Solomon 7:1-6. The Praises of the Ladies of the Hareem This song or section contains the praises of the Shulammite by the ladies of the hareem; but the circumstances under which the words are...
_Thy navel_ Better, THY BODY. which _wanteth not_ This should be _let not liquor be wanting_. _liquor_ Heb. _mezegh_is wine mixed with snow or water. _thy belly_is like _a heap of wheat_ The point o...
AN HEAP OF WHEAT— It was usual with the Jews, when their wheat had been threshed out and fanned, to lay it in heaps, Ruth 3:7. Haggai 2:16 and as their threshing-floors were in the open air, they stuc...
TEXT 7:1-10 _Solomon; Song of Solomon 7:1-9_ (Song of Solomon 7:1-5 may be remarks of women attendants) _Shulammite_ (interrupting the King); Song of Solomon 7:9 b -...
Thy navel is like a round goblet, which wanteth not liquor: thy belly is like an heap of wheat set about with lilies. NAVEL - rather, girdle-clasp, called from the part of the person underneath. Th...
1-6. The _wasf_ begins with a eulogy of her dancing: her steps in sandals (RV) are lovely, and the circling movements of her body are graceful as ornamental chains. In Eastern dancing the twisting and...
The Talmud states that the proportions for mixed wine (RV) were two-thirds water, one-third wine. In Syria the colour of wheat is considered to be the most beautiful for a human body....
HEAP OF WHEAT SET ABOUT WITH LILIES. — Wetstein (quoted by Delitzsch in his Appendix) remarks that in Syria the colour of wheat is regarded as the most beautiful colour the human body can have; and af...
_[Song of Solomon 7:3]_ שָׁרְרֵךְ֙ אַגַּ֣ן הַ סַּ֔הַר אַל
MYSTICAL INTERPRETATIONS THUS far we have been considering the bare, literal sense of the text. It cannot be denied that, if only to lead up to the metaphorical significance of the words employed, tho...
2. Solomon (Song of Solomon 6:4; Song of Solomon 7:1). His Musing. (a) Description of the Shulamite (Song of Solomon 6:4 a). (b) Effect on the Virgins of the Vision of Her ...
How beautiful are thy feet with shoes, O prince's daughter! the joints of thy thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a cunning workman. (2) Thy navel is like a round goblet, which wanteth no...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 6 AND 7. And this experience makes her understand through grace another aspect of her relationship, proving a real progress in the intelligence of grace and c...
THY NAVEL [IS LIKE] A ROUND GOBLET,.... According to some, not the navel itself is meant; but a covering of it, a jewel or plate of gold in the shape of it; and because the word for "round", in the Ch...
Thy navel [is like] a round goblet, [which] wanteth not liquor: thy belly [is like] an heap of wheat set about with lilies. Ver. 2. _Thy navel is like a round goblet, &c._] There are those who expoun...
Song 7:2. "Thy navel is like a round goblet, which wanteth not liquor." The navel, according to the ancient notions they had of things, was the seat of health. Proverbs 3:8, "It shall be health to thy...
Thy navel is like a round goblet, a mixing-bowl, WHICH WANTETH NOT LIQUOR, or, "Let not mixed wine," such as was mixed with wine or spices, "be wanting"; THY BELLY IS LIKE AN HEAP OF WHEAT, a rounded...
THE VICTORIOUS PROGRESS OF THE CHURCH. The Beauty of the Church's Progress...
LIQUOR: _ Heb._ mixture...
1-9 The similitudes here are different from what they were before, and in the original refer to glorious and splendid clothing. Such honour have all his saints; and having put on Christ, they are dis...
Thy navel is like a round goblet, to which it is not unfitly compared, because it is of a round form, and hollow, and hath windings and circlings in it, WHICH WANTETH NOT LIQUOR; thy navel is not only...
Song of Solomon 7:2 navel H8326 rounded H5469 goblet H101 lacks H2637 (H8799) beverage H4197 waist H990 heap...
SECTION 6. The Restored Couple Rejoice In Each Other (Song of Solomon 7:1 to Song of Solomon 8:4). The restoration of the royal couple is now complete. Their harmony is fully restored, and they can o...
CONTENTS: Further description of the beauties of the Bride. CHARACTERS: Solomon, Bride (Christ, Church). CONCLUSION: The Bride of Christ bears the image of the King of Kings and in the beauty of hol...
Song of Solomon 7:1. _How beautiful are thy feet with shoes, oh prince's daughter!_ We find the term “king's daughter,” in Psalms 45:13. The church has assurance that the Lord her Maker is her husband...
SONG OF SOLOMON—NOTE ON SONG OF SOLOMON 7:1 This description of the woman’s beauty echoes that of Song of Solomon 4:1 (see her description of the man in...
NOTES Song of Solomon 7:13. _The mandrakes give a smell_. ‘Mandrakes.’ הַדּוּדָיִם _ha-dudhaim;_ plural of דוּדַי a love-apple, from דּוּד to love. So GESENIUS and others. ‘A mandragora (_Atropa mand...
NOTES Song of Solomon 7:5: _The King is held in the galleries_. ‘In the galleries.’ בָּרְהָטִים (_ba-rehatim_), plural of רַהַט, a gutter, rafter, gallery, a hair or ringlet; from רָהַט, an unused roo...
EXPOSITION SONG OF SOLOMON 7:1 HOW BEAUTIFUL ARE THY FEET IN SANDALS, O PRINCE'S DAUGHTER! THE JOINTS OF THY THIGHS ARE LIKE JEWELS, THE WORK OF THE HANDS OF A CUNNING WORKMAN. To the ladies who are...
Now the daughters of Jerusalem address themselves to the Shulamite and they say, How beautiful are thy feet with shoes (Song of Solomon 7:1), Or within thy sandals. O prince's daughter! the joints o...
Isaiah 46:3; Jeremiah 1:5; Proverbs 3:8; Psalms 45:16; Romans 7:4;...