The Song of Solomon Chapter 6

Mutual Delight in Each Other

6:1 Where has your beloved gone, O you fairest among women? Where has your beloved turned aside? So that we may seek him with you.
6:2 My beloved has gone down into his garden, to the beds of spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies.
6:3 I am my beloved’s, and my beloved is mine: he feeds among the lilies.
6:4 You are beautiful, O my love, like Tirzahכְּתִרְצָה‎
Transliteration: kᵊṯirṣâ – Tirzah = “favorable” – 1. one of the 5 daughters of Zelophehad the son of Hepher of the tribe of Manasseh 2. one of the kingdoms on the west of the Jordan conquered by Joshua and the Israelites 3. a Canaanite city, later capital of the northern kingdom of Israel – For more info click here, beautiful like Jerusalemכִּירוּשָׁלִָם‎
Transliteration: kîrûšālām – proper locative noun meaning “teaching of peace” or possession of peace – also called the city of David and Zion – the chief city of Palestine and capital of the united kingdom and the nation of Judah after the split For more info click here, frightening as an army with banners.
6:5 Turn away your eyes from me, because they have overcome me: your hair is like a flock of goats that appear from Gileadהַגִּלְעָד
Transliteration: hagilʿāḏ – Galead = “witness heap” or “rocky region” is the ancient, historic, biblical name of the mountainous northern part of the region of Transjordan, the people of the region, son of Machir and grandson of Manasseh, father of Jephthah – for more info click here .
6:6 Your teeth are like a flock of sheep that go up from the washing, of which every one bears twins, and there is not one barren among them.
6:7 Like a piece of a pomegranate are your temples within your locks.
6:8 There are sixty queens, and eighty concubinesˈkäNGkyəˌbīn noun– chiefly historical (in polygamous societies) a woman who lives with a man but has lower status than his wife or wives., and virgins without number.
6:9 My dove, my undefiled is but one; she is the only one of her mother, she is the choice one of her that bare her. The daughters saw her, and blessed her; yes, the queens and the concubinesˈkäNGkyəˌbīn noun– chiefly historical (in polygamous societies) a woman who lives with a man but has lower status than his wife or wives., and they praised her.
6:10 Who is she that looked out like the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and frightening as an army with banners?
6:11 I went down into the garden of nuts to see the fruits of the valley, and to see where the vine flourished and the pomegranates budded.
6:12 Or ever I was aware, My soulנַפְשִׁי
Transliteration: nap̄šî Hebrew Noun: Common Both Singular Construct – Meaning: my soul, myself, my life, my creature, my person, my appetite, my mind, my living being, my desire, my emotion, my passion For more info click here made me [like] the chariots of Amminadib.
6:13 Return, return, O Shulamiteשׁוּלַמִּית‎
Transliteration: šûlammîṯ – “the perfect” or “the peaceful” (with the article always prefixed, making it a pet name); the Shulammith, an epithet of Solomon’s queen For more info click here; return, return, that we may look upon you. What will ya’ll see in Shulamiteבַּשּׁוּלַמִּית‎
Transliteration: baššûlammîṯ – “the perfect” or “the peaceful” (with the article always prefixed, making it a pet name); the Shulammith, an epithet of Solomon’s queen For more info click here? As it were the company of two armies.