Song of Solomon 7

Song of Solomon · Chapter 7

Song of Solomon 7:9

1How beautiful are thy feet with shoes, O prince’s daughter! the joints of thy thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a cunning workman.2Thy navel is like a round goblet, which wanteth not liquor: thy belly is like an heap of wheat set about with lilies.3Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins.4Thy neck is as a tower of ivory; thine eyes like the fishpools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bathrabbim: thy nose is as the tower of Lebanon which looketh toward Damascus.5Thine head upon thee is like Carmel, and the hair of thine head like purple; the king is held in the galleries.6How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!7This thy stature is like to a palm tree, and thy breasts to clusters of grapes.8I said, I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of the boughs thereof: now also thy breasts shall be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of thy nose like apples;9And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine for my beloved, that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak.10I am my beloved’s, and his desire is toward me.11Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages.12Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my loves.13The mandrakes give a smell, and at our gates are all manner of pleasant fruits, new and old, which I have laid up for thee, O my beloved.

King James Version (1769)

Other translations

VerseKJVBSBASV
9And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine for my beloved, that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak.and your mouth like the finest wine. May it flow smoothly to my beloved, gliding gently over lips and teeth.And thy mouth like the best wine, That goeth down smoothly for my beloved, Gliding through the lips of those that are asleep.

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Original Hebrew words

EnglishHebrewSay itStrong'sMeaning
and mouth yourוְחִכֵּ֕ךְve-chi-KEKHH2441
palate

חֵךְ (chekh) mouth, palate, taste, gums

like [the] wine ofכְּיֵ֥יןke-YEINH3196
wine

יַ֫יִן (ya.yin) wine

the goodהַטּ֛וֹבha-TOVH2896A
fine

טָב (tav) good Aramaic of tov (טוֹב "pleasant" H2896A)

[which] goesהוֹלֵ֥ךְho-LEKHH1980G
to go: went

הָלַךְ (ha.lakh) : went/go[away] 1) to go, walk, come 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to go, walk, come, depart, proceed, move, go away 1a2) to die, live, manner of life (fig.) 1b) (Piel) 1b1) to walk 1b2) to walk (fig.) 1c) (Hithpael) 1c1) to traverse 1c2) to walk about 1d) (Niphal) to lead, bring, lead away, carry, cause to walk

for lover myלְדוֹדִ֖יle-do-DIH1730G
beloved

דּוֹד (dod) : beloved 1) beloved, love, uncle 1a) loved one, beloved 1b) uncle 1c) love (pl. abstract)

to smoothnessesלְמֵישָׁרִ֑יםle-mei-sha-RIMH4339
uprightness

מֵישָׁר (me.shar) 1) evenness, uprightness, straightness, equity 1a) evenness, level, smoothness 1b) uprightness, equity 1c) rightly (as adv)

[which] flows gentlyדּוֹבֵ֖בdo-VEVH1680
to glide

דָּבַב (da.vav) 1) to move gently, glide, glide over 1a) (Qal) glide over (participle)

[the] lips ofשִׂפְתֵ֥יsif-TEIH8193G
lips

שָׂפָה (sa.phah) : lips/mouth 1) lip, language, speech, shore, bank, brink, brim, side, edge, border, binding 1a) lip (as body part) 1b) language 1c) edge, shore, bank (of cup, sea, river, etc)

sleepersיְשֵׁנִֽים׃ye-she-NIMH3463
sleeping

יָשֵׁן (ya.shen) sleeping

Words and meanings from STEPBible data (Tyndale House, Cambridge, CC BY 4.0). The capitalized syllable is the stressed one.