The Song of Solomon Chapter 3

The Bride’s Troubled Dream

3:1 By night on my bed I sought him whom 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 loves: I sought him, but I didn’t find him.
3:2 I will rise now, and go around the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom 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 loves: I sought him, but I found him not.
3:3 The watchmen that go around the city found me: to whom I said, Did ya’ll see him whom 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 loves?
3:4 It was but a little that I passed from them, but I found him whom 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 loves: I held him, and wouldn’t let him go, until I had brought him into my mother’s house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me.
3:5 I charge you, O ya’ll daughters of Jerusalemיְרוּשָׁלַם‎
Transliteration: yᵊrûšālam – Pronunciation: yer-oo-shaw-lah’-im – 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, by the gazelles, and by the does of the field, that ya’ll don’t stir up, or awake my love, till he please.

Solomon’s Wedding Day

3:6 Who is this that comes out of the wildernessהַמִּדְבָּר
Transliteration: hammiḏbār in the sense of driving; a pasture (i.e. open field, where cattle are driven); by implication, a desert; also speech (including its organs): —desert, south, speech, wilderness. For more info click here like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the merchant?
3:7 See his bed, that is Solomon’sשְׁלֹמֹה‎
His two names mean “peaceful” and “friend of God”, both considered “predictive of the character of his reign Reign 970–931 BCE (hypothesized) For more info click here; sixty valiant men are around it, of the valiant of Israelיִשְׂרָאֵל
Transliteration: yiśrā’ēl The name Israel (Septuagint Ancient Greek: Ἰσραήλ, Israēl, “El (God) persists/rules” or “God prevails”) refers to the patriarch Jacob who, according to the Hebrew Bible, was given the name after he successfully wrestled with the Angel of the Lord. The earliest known archaeological artifact to mention the word Israel as a collective is the Merneptah Stele of ancient Egypt (dated to the late-13th century BCE) for more info click here.
3:8 They all hold swords, being expert in war: every man has his sword upon his thigh because of fear in the night.
3:9 King Solomonשְׁלֹמֹה‎
His two names mean “peaceful” and “friend of God”, both considered “predictive of the character of his reign Reign 970–931 BCE (hypothesized) For more info click here made himself a chariot of the wood of Lebanonהַלְּבָנוֹן
Transliteration: hallᵊḇānôn Lebanon = “whiteness” a wooded mountain range on the northern border of Israel – For more info click here.
3:10 He made the pillars of it of silver, the bottom of it of gold, the covering of it of purple, the middle of it being paved with love, for the daughters of Jerusalemיְרוּשָׁלַם‎
Transliteration: yᵊrûšālam – Pronunciation: yer-oo-shaw-lah’-im – 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.
3:11 Go forth, O ya’ll daughters of Zionצִיּוֹן
LXX: Σιών, also variously transliterated Sion,Tzion, Tsion, Tsiyyon Zion = “parched place” often used as a synonym for Jerusalem as well as for the Land of Israel as a whole For more info click here, and see king Solomonשְׁלֹמֹה‎
His two names mean “peaceful” and “friend of God”, both considered “predictive of the character of his reign Reign 970–931 BCE (hypothesized) For more info click here with the crown by which his mother crowned him in the day of his wedding, and in the day of the gladness of his heart.