Song of Solomon 2:6

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible

His left hand under my head, then, his right hand, embraceth me!

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
His left arm is under my head, and his right arm embraces me.

Update Bible Version
His left hand [is] under my head, And his right hand embraces me.

New Century Version
My lover's left hand is under my head, and his right arm holds me tight.

New English Translation
His left hand caresses my head, and his right hand stimulates me.

Webster's Bible Translation
His left hand [is] under my head, and his right hand doth embrace me.

World English Bible
His left hand is under my head. His right hand embraces me.

Amplified Bible
"Let his left hand be under my head And his right hand embrace me."

English Standard Version
His left hand is under my head, and his right hand embraces me!

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
His left hond is vndur myn heed; and his riyt hond schal biclippe me.

English Revised Version
His left hand [is] under my head, and his right hand doth embrace me.

Berean Standard Bible
His left hand is under my head, and his right arm embraces me.

Contemporary English Version
Put your left hand under my head and embrace me with your right arm.

American Standard Version
His left hand is under my head, And his right hand doth embrace me.

Bible in Basic English
His left hand is under my head, and his right hand is round about me.

Complete Jewish Bible
[I wish] his left arm [were] under my head, and his right arm around me.

Darby Translation
His left hand is under my head, And his right hand doth embrace me.

Easy-to-Read Version
My lover's left arm is under my head, and his right arm holds me.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Let his left hand be under my head, and his right hand embrace me.

King James Version (1611)
His left hand is vnder my head, and his right hand doeth imbrace me.

New Life Bible
Let his left hand be under my head and his right hand hold me close."

New Revised Standard
O that his left hand were under my head, and that his right hand embraced me!

Geneva Bible (1587)
His left hande is vnder mine head, and his right hand doeth imbrace me.

George Lamsa Translation
His left hand is under my head, and his right hand embraces me.

Good News Translation
His left hand is under my head, and his right hand caresses me.

Douay-Rheims Bible
His left hand is under my head, and his right hand shall embrace me.

Revised Standard Version
O that his left hand were under my head, and that his right hand embraced me!

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Set about me cuppes of wine, comfort me with apples, for I am sicke of loue.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
His left hand shall be under my head, and his right hand shall embrace me.

Christian Standard Bible®
May his left hand be under my head,and his right arm embrace me.

Hebrew Names Version
His left hand is under my head. His right hand embraces me.

King James Version
His left hand is under my head, and his right hand doth embrace me.

Lexham English Bible
His left hand is under my head, and his right hand embraces me.

Literal Translation
His left hand is under my head, and His right hand embraces me.

Young's Literal Translation
His left hand [is] under my head, And his right doth embrace me.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
His left hade lyeth vnder my heade, & his right hande enbraceth me.

New American Standard Bible
"His left hand is under my head, And his right hand embraces me."

New King James Version
His left hand is under my head, And his right hand embraces me.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Let his left hand be under my head And his right hand embrace me."

Legacy Standard Bible
Let his left hand be under my headAnd his right hand embrace me."

Contextual Overview

³ SHEAs an apple-tree among the trees of the forest, So, is my beloved, among the sons: In his shade, I greatly delighted and sat down, And, his fruit, was sweet to my taste. ⁴ He hath brought me into the house of wine, and, his banner over me, is love. ⁵ Sustain me with raisin-cakes, refresh me with apples, - for sick with love, I am. ⁶ His left hand under my head, then, his right hand, embraceth me! ⁷ HEI adjure you, ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles or by the hinds of the field, - That ye wake not, nor arouse, the dear love until she please! ****

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Song of Solomon 8:3-5, Isaiah 54:5-10, Isaiah 62:4, Isaiah 62:5, Jeremiah 32:41, Zephaniah 3:17, John 3:29, Ephesians 5:25-29

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 33:27 - underneath Psalms 63:8 - thy Ecclesiastes 3:5 - a time to embrace Luke 5:34 - the children

Gill's Notes on the Bible

His left hand [is] under my head, and his right hand doth embrace me. The church, having desired to be stayed, supported, strengthened, and comforted, presently found her beloved with her, who with both hands sustained her; which shows his tender love to her, care of her, and regard for her; and is expressive of the near and intimate communion she had with him, as the effect of union to him, often enjoyed in his house and ordinances; likewise of blessings of every kind she received from him; temporal, mercies, or left hand blessings, which are necessary to support and carry through this wilderness; and spiritual, or right hand blessings, as justification, pardon, adoption, c. and, moreover, may denote the safety and security of the church, being encircled in the arms of her beloved, sustained by Christ's left hand, and embraced by his right hand, out of whose hands none can pluck. Some read the words prayer wise, "let his left hand be", c. b still desiring further tokens of his love to her, and more and nearer communion with him: others read it in the future, "his left hand will be", c. c "his right hand shall embrace", c. expressing the strength of her faith that she should for the future enjoy his gracious presence and that he would support her, that she should not sink and faint.

b Tigurine version, some in Mercer. Marckius so Ainsworth. c V. L. Pagninus Montanus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The bride’s answer: “As the ‘tappuach’ with its fragrant fruit excels the barren trees of the wild wood, so my beloved his associates and friends etc.” תפוח tappûach may in early Hebrew have been a generic name for apple, quince, citron, orange etc.

Song of Solomon 2:4

His banner - As the standard is the rallying-point and guide of the individual soldier, so the bride, transplanted from a lowly station to new scenes of unaccustomed splendor, finds support and safety in the known attachment of her beloved. His “love” is her “banner.” The thought is similar to that expressed in the name “Jehovah-nissi” (see the Exodus 17:15 note).

Song of Solomon 2:5

Flagons - More probably cakes of raisins or dried grapes (2 Samuel 6:19 note; 1 Chronicles 16:3; Hosea 3:1). For an instance of the reviving power of dried fruit, see 1 Samuel 30:12.

Song of Solomon 2:6

Render as a wish or prayer: “O that his left hand were under my head, and that his right hand did embrace me!” Let him draw me to him with entire affection. Compare Deuteronomy 33:27; Proverbs 4:8.

Song of Solomon 2:7

Render: “I adjure you ... by the gazelles, or by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up nor awaken love until it please.” The King James Version, “my love,” is misleading. The affection or passion in itself, not its object, is here meant. This adjuration, three times significantly introduced as a concluding formula (marginal references), expresses one of the main thoughts of the poem; namely, that genuine love is a shy and gentle affection which dreads intrusion and scrutiny; hence the allusion to the gazelles and hinds, shy and timid creatures.

The complementary thought is that of Song of Solomon 8:6-7, where love is again described, and by the bride, as a fiery principle.