Song of Solomon 6:7

New Life Version

The sides of your forehead are like a piece of a pomegranate behind your face-covering.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Behind your veil,your brow is like a slice of pomegranate.

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 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

⁴ I am my love's, and my love is mine, he who feeds his flock among the lilies." "You are as beautiful as Tirzah, my love, as beautiful as Jerusalem. You are to be feared as an army with flags. ⁵ Turn your eyes away from me, for they trouble me. Your hair is like a flock of goats that has come down from Gilead. ⁶ Your teeth are like a flock of sheep which has come up from the washing. All of them give birth to two lambs at a time, and not one of them has lost her young. ⁷ The sides of your forehead are like a piece of a pomegranate behind your face-covering. ⁸ There are sixty queens, and eighty women kept who act like wives, and there are too many young women to number who have never had a man. ⁹ But my dove, my perfect one, is special. She is her mother's only daughter. She is the pure child of the one who gave birth to her. The young women saw her and knew she was honored. The queens and the women who act as wives praised her, saying, ¹⁰ ‘Who is this that looks out like the first light of day? She is as beautiful as the full moon, as pure as the sun. She is to be feared as an army with flags.'"

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 men became many in number on the earth, and daughters were born to them,

Genesis 6:2
the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful. And they took wives for themselves, whomever they chose.

Genesis 6:3
Then the Lord said, "My Spirit will not stay in man forever, for he is flesh. But yet he will live for 120 years."

Genesis 6:4
Very large men were on the earth in those days, and later also, when the sons of God lived with the daughters of men, who gave birth to their children. These were the powerful men of long ago, men of much strength.

Genesis 6:20
Two of all the kinds of birds, and animals, and every thing that moves on the ground are to be with you to keep them alive.

Genesis 6:22
Noah did just what God told him to do.

Psalms 37:20
But the sinful will be lost forever. Those who hate the Lord will be like the beauty of the fields. They will be gone. Like smoke they will be gone.

Proverbs 10:27
The fear of the Lord makes life longer, but the years of the sinful will be cut off.

Proverbs 16:4
The Lord has made all things for His own plans, even the sinful for the day of trouble.

Hosea 4:3
The land is filled with sorrow. Everyone who lives on it wastes away, together with the animals of the field and the birds of the sky. Even the fish of the sea are taken away.

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.