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Christian Standard Bible ®

Song of Solomon 6:7

Behind your veil,your brow is like a slice of pomegranate.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Torrey's Topical Textbook - Pomegranate-Tree, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Pomegranate;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Canticles;   ;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Lock;   Song of Solomon;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Pomegranate;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Pomegranates, Rimmon;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Pomegranate;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Veil;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Hair;   Locks;   Person;   Pomegranate;   Song of Songs;   Temples;   Veil (1);   Wisdom of Solomon, the;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Anatomy;   Pomegranate;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
Your temples are like a piece of a pomegranate behind your veil.
King James Version
As a piece of a pomegranate are thy temples within thy locks.
English Standard Version
Your cheeks are like halves of a pomegranate behind your veil.
New American Standard Bible
"Your temples are like a slice of a pomegranate Behind your veil.
New Century Version
Your cheeks behind your veil are like slices of a pomegranate.
Amplified Bible
"Your temples are like a slice of the pomegranate Behind your veil.
World English Bible
Your temples are like a piece of a pomegranate behind your veil.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Thy temples are within thy lockes as a piece of a pomegranate.
Legacy Standard Bible
Your temples are like a slice of a pomegranateBehind your veil.
Berean Standard Bible
Your brow behind your veil is like a slice of pomegranate.
Contemporary English Version
Behind your veil are hidden beautiful rosy cheeks.
Complete Jewish Bible
Your cheeks are like a pomegranate split open behind your veil.
Darby Translation
As a piece of a pomegranate are thy temples Behind thy veil.
Easy-to-Read Version
Your cheeks under your veil are like slices of pomegranate.
George Lamsa Translation
Your cheeks, behind your veil, are like two pieces of pomegranate.
Good News Translation
Your cheeks glow behind your veil.
Lexham English Bible
Your cheeks behind your veil are like halves of a pomegranate.
Literal Translation
Your temples behind your veil are like a piece of pomegranate.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thy chekes are like a pece of a pomgranate, besydes yt which lyeth hid within.
American Standard Version
Thy temples are like a piece of a pomegranate Behind thy veil.
Bible in Basic English
Like pomegranate fruit are the sides of your head under your veil.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Thy temples are like a pomegranate split open behind thy veil.
King James Version (1611)
As a piece of a pomegranat are thy temples within thy lockes.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Thy cheekes are like a peece of a pomegranate within thy lockes of heere.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
There are sixty queens, and eighty concubines, and maidens without number.
English Revised Version
Thy temples are like a piece of a pomegranate behind thy veil.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
As the rynde of a pumgranate, so ben thi chekis, without thi priuytees.
Update Bible Version
Your temples are like a piece of a pomegranate Behind your veil.
Webster's Bible Translation
As a piece of pomegranate [are] thy temples within thy locks.
New English Translation
Like a slice of pomegranate is your forehead behind your veil.
New King James Version
Like a piece of pomegranate Are your temples behind your veil.
New Living Translation
Your cheeks are like rosy pomegranates behind your veil.
New Life Bible
The sides of your forehead are like a piece of a pomegranate behind your face-covering.
New Revised Standard
Your cheeks are like halves of a pomegranate behind your veil.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Like a slice of pomegranate, are thy temples, from behind thy veil:
Douay-Rheims Bible
(6-6) Thy cheeks are as the bark of a pomegranate, beside what is hidden within thee.
Revised Standard Version
Your cheeks are like halves of a pomegranate behind your veil.
Young's Literal Translation
As the work of the pomegranate [is] thy temple behind thy veil.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Your temples are like a slice of a pomegranate Behind your veil.

Contextual Overview

4You are as beautiful as Tirzah, my darling,lovely as Jerusalem,awe-inspiring as an army with banners. 5Turn your eyes away from me,for they captivate me.Your hair is like a flock of goatsstreaming down from Gilead. 6Your teeth are like a flock of ewescoming up from washing,each one having a twin,and not one missing. 7Behind your veil,your brow is like a slice of pomegranate.8There are sixty queensand eighty concubinesand young women without number. 9But my dove, my virtuous one, is unique;she is the favorite of her mother,perfect to the one who gave her birth.Women see her and declare her fortunate;queens and concubines also, and they sing her praises: 10Who is this who shines like the dawn,as beautiful as the moon,bright as the sun,awe-inspiring as an army with banners?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Song of Solomon 4:3

Reciprocal: Exodus 28:34 - General Exodus 39:26 - pomegranate Song of Solomon 4:1 - thy hair

Cross-References

Genesis 6:1
When mankind began to multiply on the earth and daughters were born to them,
Genesis 6:2
the sons of God saw that the daughters of mankind were beautiful, and they took any they chose as wives for themselves.
Genesis 6:3
And the Lord said, “My Spirit will not remain with mankind forever, because they are corrupt. Their days will be 120 years.”
Genesis 6:4
The Nephilim were on the earth both in those days and afterward, when the sons of God came to the daughters of mankind, who bore children to them. They were the powerful men of old, the famous men.
Genesis 6:20
Two of everything—from the birds according to their kinds, from the livestock according to their kinds, and from the animals that crawl on the ground according to their kinds—will come to you so that you can keep them alive.
Genesis 6:22
And Noah did this. He did everything that God had commanded him.
Psalms 37:20
But the wicked will perish;the Lord’s enemies, like the glory of the pastures,will fade away—they will fade away like smoke.
Proverbs 10:27
The fear of the Lord prolongs life,but the years of the wicked are cut short.
Proverbs 16:4
The Lord has prepared everything for his purpose—even the wicked for the day of disaster.
Hosea 4:3
For this reason the land mourns,and everyone who lives in it languishes,along with the wild animals and the birds of the sky;even the fish of the sea disappear.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

As a piece of a pomegranate [are] thy temples within thy locks. The same descriptions are given in Song of Solomon 4:3;

Song of Solomon 4:3- :; and these are repeated, to show the reality of the church's beauty, and for the sake of confirmation; and that it still continued the same, notwithstanding her failings and infirmities; and that Christ had the same esteem of her, and love to her, he ever had. That part of the description, respecting the church's lips and speech, in Song of Solomon 4:3; is here omitted, though added at the end of Song of Solomon 6:6; by the Septuagint; but is not in the Hebrew copies, nor taken notice of in the Targum; yea, the Masorah, on Song of Solomon 4:2, remarks some words as only used in that place, and therefore could not be repeated here in the copies then in use.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The section might be entitled, “Renewed declaration of love after brief estrangement.”

Song of Solomon 6:4

Tirzah ... Jerusalem - Named together as the then two fairest cities of the land. For Jerusalem compare Psalms 48:2. “Tirzah” (i. e., “Grace” or “Beauty “)was an old Canaanite royal city Joshua 12:24. It became again a royal residence during the reigns of Baasha and his three successors in the kingdom of the ten tribes, and may well therefore have been famed for its beauty in the time of Solomon.

Terrible as ... - Awe-inspiring as the bannered (hosts). The warlike image, like others in the Song, serves to enhance the charm of its assured peace.

Song of Solomon 6:5

Even for the king the gentle eyes of the bride have an awe-striking majesty. Such is the condescension of love. Now follows Song of Solomon 6:5-7 the longest of the repetitions which abound in the Song, marking the continuance of the king’s affection as when first solemnly proclaimed Song of Solomon 4:1-6. The two descriptions belong, according to some (Christian) expositors, to the Church of different periods, e. g. to the primitive Church in the splendor of her first vocation, and to the Church under Constantine; other (Jewish) expositors apply them to “the congregation of Israel” under the first and second temples respectively.

Song of Solomon 6:9

The king contrasts the bride with the other claimants for her royal estate or favor Song of Solomon 6:8. She not only outshines them all for him, but herself has received from them disinterested blessing and praise.

This passage is invaluable as a divine witness to the principle of monogamy under the Old Testament and in the luxurious age of Solomon.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Song of Solomon 6:7. As a piece of a pomegranate — See on Song of Solomon 4:3.


 
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