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Geneva Bible

Song of Solomon 6:7

Thy temples are within thy lockes as a piece of a 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

English Standard Version
Your cheeks are like halves of a pomegranate behind your veil.
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.
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.
Amplified Bible
"Your temples are like a slice of the pomegranate Behind your veil.
American Standard Version
Thy temples are like a piece of a pomegranate Behind thy veil.
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.
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.
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.
Berean Standard Bible
Your brow behind your veil is like a slice of pomegranate.
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.
New Century Version
Your cheeks behind your veil are like slices of a pomegranate.
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.
George Lamsa Translation
Your cheeks, behind your veil, are like two pieces of pomegranate.
Good News Translation
Your cheeks glow behind your veil.
New American Standard Bible
"Your temples are like a slice of a pomegranate Behind your veil.
King James Version
As a piece of a pomegranate are thy temples within thy locks.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Thy cheekes are like a peece of a pomegranate within thy lockes of heere.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
As the rynde of a pumgranate, so ben thi chekis, without thi priuytees.
Young's Literal Translation
As the work of the pomegranate [is] thy temple behind thy veil.
World English Bible
Your temples are like a piece of a pomegranate behind your veil.
Revised Standard Version
Your cheeks are like halves of a pomegranate behind your veil.
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.
Bible in Basic English
Like pomegranate fruit are the sides of your head under your veil.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thy chekes are like a pece of a pomgranate, besydes yt which lyeth hid within.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Your temples are like a slice of a pomegranate Behind your veil.
Legacy Standard Bible
Your temples are like a slice of a pomegranateBehind your veil.

Contextual Overview

4 Thou art beautifull, my loue, as Tirzah, comely as Ierusale, terrible as an army with baners. 5 Turne away thine eyes from me: for they ouercome mee: thine heare is like a flocke of goates, which looke downe from Gilead. 6 Thy teeth are like a flocke of sheepe, which goe vp from the washing, which euery one bring out twinnes, and none is barren among them. 7 Thy temples are within thy lockes as a piece of a pomegranate. 8 There are threescore Queenes and fourescore concubines & of the damsels without nober. 9 But my doue is alone, and my vndefiled, she is the onely daughter of her mother, and shee is deare to her that bare her: the daughters haue seene her & counted her blessed: euen the Queenes and the concubines, and they haue praised her. 10 Who is shee that looketh foorth as the morning, fayre as the moone, pure as the sunne, terrible as an armie 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
So when men beganne to be multiplied vpon the earth, and there were daughters borne vnto them,
Genesis 6:2
Then the sonnes of God sawe the daughters of men that they were faire, & they tooke them wiues of all that they liked.
Genesis 6:3
Therefore the Lord saide, My Spirit shall not alway striue with man, because he is but flesh, and his dayes shalbe an hundreth & twentie yeeres.
Genesis 6:4
There were gyants in the earth in those dayes: yea, and after that the sonnes of God came vnto the daughters of men, and they had borne them children, these were mightie men, which in olde time were men of renoume.
Genesis 6:20
Of the foules, after their kinde, and of the cattell after their kind, of euery creeping thing of the earth after his kinde, two of euery sort shall come vnto thee, that thou mayest keepe them aliue.
Genesis 6:22
Noah therefore did according vnto all, that God commanded him: euen so did he.
Psalms 37:20
But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the Lord shall be consumed as the fatte of lambes: euen with the smoke shall they consume away.
Proverbs 10:27
The feare of the Lord increaseth the dayes: but the yeeres of the wicked shalbe diminished.
Proverbs 16:4
The Lord hath made all things for his owne sake: yea, euen the wicked for the day of euill.
Hosea 4:3
Therefore shall the land mourne, and euery one that dwelleth therein, shall be cut off, with the beasts of the fielde, and with the foules of the heauen, and also the fishes of the sea shall be 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.


 
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