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Complete Jewish Bible

Song of Solomon 7:3

Your navel is like a round goblet that never lacks spiced wine. Your belly is a heap of wheat encircled by lilies.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Torrey's Topical Textbook - Roe, the;  

Dictionaries:

- Easton Bible Dictionary - Roe;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Canticles;   ;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Sex, Biblical Teaching on;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Roe, Roebuck;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Deer;   Gazelle;   Roe;   Song of Songs;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Color;   Cup;   Drinking-Vessels;   Roe;   Synagogue, the Great;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Your breasts are like two fawns,twins of a gazelle.
Hebrew Names Version
Your two breasts are like two fawns, That are twins of a roe.
King James Version
Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins.
English Standard Version
Your two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle.
New American Standard Bible
"Your two breasts are like two fawns, Twins of a gazelle.
New Century Version
Your breasts are like two fawns, like twins of a gazelle.
Amplified Bible
"Your two breasts are like two fawns, The twins of a gazelle.
World English Bible
Your two breasts are like two fawns, That are twins of a roe.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Thy two breastes are as two young roes that are twinnes.
Legacy Standard Bible
Your two breasts are like two fawns,Twins of a gazelle.
Berean Standard Bible
Your breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle.
Contemporary English Version
Your breasts are like twins of a deer.
Darby Translation
Thy two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle;
Easy-to-Read Version
Your breasts are like twin fawns of a young gazelle.
George Lamsa Translation
Your two breasts are like two young roes, twins of gazelles, that feed among lilies.
Good News Translation
Your breasts are like twin deer, like two gazelles.
Lexham English Bible
Your two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle.
Literal Translation
Your two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thy two brestes are like two twyns of yonge roes:
American Standard Version
Thy two breasts are like two fawns That are twins of a roe.
Bible in Basic English
Your two breasts are like two young roes of the same birth.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Thy navel is like a round goblet, wherein no mingled wine is wanting; thy belly is like a heap of wheat set about with lilies.
King James Version (1611)
Thy two breasts are like two yong Roes that are twinnes.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Thy two breastes are lyke two twinnes of young roes.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Thy two breasts are as two twin fawns.
English Revised Version
Thy two breasts are like two fawns that are twins of a roe.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Thi twei teetis ben as twei kidis, twynnes of a capret.
Update Bible Version
Your two breasts are like two fawns That are twins of a roe.
Webster's Bible Translation
Thy two breasts [are] like two young roes [that are] twins.
New English Translation
Your two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle.
New King James Version
Your two breasts are like two fawns, Twins of a gazelle.
New Living Translation
Your breasts are like two fawns, twin fawns of a gazelle.
New Life Bible
Your two breasts are like two young deer, the two young ones of a gazelle.
New Revised Standard
Your two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Thy two breasts, are like two young roes, the twins of a gazelle:
Douay-Rheims Bible
Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins.
Revised Standard Version
Your two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle.
Young's Literal Translation
Thy two breasts as two young ones, twins of a roe,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Your two breasts are like two fawns, Twins of a gazelle.

Contextual Overview

1

[Chorus]

Come back, come back, girl from Shulam! Come back, come back to where we can see you! Why are you looking at the girl from Shulam as if she were dancing for two army camps? 2

[He]

How beautiful are your feet in sandals, you daughter of princes! The curves of your thighs are like a necklace made by a skilled craftsman. 3 Your navel is like a round goblet that never lacks spiced wine. Your belly is a heap of wheat encircled by lilies. 4 Your two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle. 5 Your neck is like a tower of ivory, your eyes like the pools in Heshbon by the gate of Bat-Rabbim, your nose like a tower in the L'vanon overlooking Dammesek. 6 You hold your head like the Karmel, and the hair on your head is like purple cloth — the king is held captive in its tresses. 7 How beautiful you are, my love, how charming, how delightful! 8 Your appearance is stately as a palm tree, with its fruit clusters your breasts. 9 I said, "I will climb up into the palm tree, I will take hold of its branches." May your breasts be like clusters of grapes, your breath as fragrant as apples,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Song of Solomon 4:5, Song of Solomon 6:6

Reciprocal: Proverbs 5:19 - as the Song of Solomon 7:7 - thy breasts Song of Solomon 8:8 - she hath Song of Solomon 8:10 - my

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thy two breasts [are] like two young roes [that are] twins.

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Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Song of Solomon 7:3. Thy two breasts — Where the hair and breasts are fine, they are the highest ornaments of the person of a female.


 
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