Song of Solomon 5
Study sheet, King James Version, with the original-language words this chapter turns on.
The text
1I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved.
2I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.
3I have put off my coat; how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them?
4My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my bowels were moved for him.
5I rose up to open to my beloved; and my hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers with sweet smelling myrrh, upon the handles of the lock.
6I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone: my soul failed when he spake: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer.
7The watchmen that went about the city found me, they smote me, they wounded me; the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me.
8I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I am sick of love.
9What is thy beloved more than another beloved, O thou fairest among women? what is thy beloved more than another beloved, that thou dost so charge us?
10My beloved is white and ruddy, the chiefest among ten thousand.
11His head is as the most fine gold, his locks are bushy, and black as a raven.
12His eyes are as the eyes of doves by the rivers of waters, washed with milk, and fitly set.
13His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as sweet flowers: his lips like lilies, dropping sweet smelling myrrh.
14His hands are as gold rings set with the beryl: his belly is as bright ivory overlaid with sapphires.
15His legs are as pillars of marble, set upon sockets of fine gold: his countenance is as Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.
16His mouth is most sweet: yea, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.
Words in this chapter
Definitions are Strong's own wording from his Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Counts are how often each word appears in this chapter, from the tagged text.
- דּוֹדdôwdH173013× in this chapter
(figuratively) to love; by implication, a love-token, lover, friend; specifically an uncle
- עַלʻalH59216× in this chapter
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
- אֵתʼêthH8535× in this chapter
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
- מֹרmôrH47534× in this chapter
myrrh (as distilling in drops, and also as bitter)
- אֲנִיʼănîyH5894× in this chapter
I
- יָדyâdH30273× in this chapter
a hand (the open one (indicating power, means, direction, etc.),
- מָהmâhH41003× in this chapter
properly, interrogative what? (including how? why? when?); but also exclamation, what! (including how!), or indefinitely what (including whatever, and even relatively, that which); often used with prefixes in various adverbial or conjunctive senses
- מָצָאmâtsâʼH46723× in this chapter
properly, to come forth to, i.e. appear or exist; transitively, to attain, i.e. find or acquire; figuratively, to occur, meet or be present
- עָבַרʻâbarH56743× in this chapter
to cross over; used very widely of any transition (literal or figurative; transitive, intransitive, intensive, causative); specifically, to cover (in copulation)
- עִםʻimH59733× in this chapter
adverb or preposition, with (i.e. in conjunction with), in varied applications; specifically, equally with; often with prepositional prefix (and then usually unrepresented in English)
- פָּתַחpâthachH66053× in this chapter
to open wide (literally or figuratively); specifically, to loosen, begin, plough, carve
- בַּתbathH13232× in this chapter
a daughter (used in the same wide sense as other terms of relationship, literally and figuratively)
- זֶהzehH20882× in this chapter
the masculine demonstrative pronoun, this or that
- חָלָבchâlâbH24612× in this chapter
milk (as the richness of kine)
- אָחוֹתʼâchôwthH2692× in this chapter
a sister (used very widely (like brother), literally and figuratively)
- יוֹנָהyôwnâhH31232× in this chapter
a dove (apparently from the warmth of their mating)
- יְרוּשָׁלַ͏ִםYᵉrûwshâlaimH33892× in this chapter
Jerushalaim or Jerushalem, the capital city of Palestine
- אֵיךְʼêykH3492× in this chapter
how? or how!; also where
- לֹאlôʼH38082× in this chapter
not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles
- אָכַלʼâkalH3982× in this chapter
to eat (literally or figuratively)
- מָלֵאmâlêʼH43902× in this chapter
to fill or (intransitively) be full of, in a wide application (literally and figuratively)
- מֵעֶהmêʻehH45782× in this chapter
used only in plural the intestines, or (collectively) the abdomen, figuratively, sympathy; by implication, a vest; by extension the stomach, the uterus (or of men, the seat of generation), the heart (figuratively)
- נָטַףnâṭaphH51972× in this chapter
to ooze, i.e. distil gradually; by implication, to fall in drops; figuratively, to speak by inspiration
- פָּזpâzH63372× in this chapter
pure (gold); hence, gold itself (as refined)
- קְוֻצָּהqᵉvutstsâhH69772× in this chapter
a forelock (as shorn)
- רֹאשׁrôʼshH72182× in this chapter
the head (as most easily shaken), whether literal or figurative (in many applications, of place, time, rank, itc.)
- רָחַץrâchatsH73642× in this chapter
to lave (the whole or a part of a thing)
- רֵעַrêaʻH74532× in this chapter
an associate (more or less close)
- שָׁבַעshâbaʻH76502× in this chapter
to seven oneself, i.e. swear (as if by repeating a declaration seven times)
- שָׁמַרshâmarH81042× in this chapter
properly, to hedge about (as with thorns), i.e. guard; generally, to protect, attend to, etc.
- שָׁתָהshâthâhH83542× in this chapter
to imbibe (literally or figuratively)
- אָדֹםʼâdômH1221× in this chapter
rosy
- בָּקַשׁbâqashH12451× in this chapter
to search out (by any method, specifically in worship or prayer); by implication, to strive after
- בָּשָׂםbâsâmH13131× in this chapter
the balsam plant
- בֶּשֶׂםbesemH13141× in this chapter
fragrance; by implication, spicery; also the balsam plant
- אֶדֶןʼedenH1341× in this chapter
a basis (of a building, a column, etc.)
- גָּלִילgâlîylH15501× in this chapter
a valve of a folding door (as turning); also a ring (as round)
- גַּןganH15881× in this chapter
a garden (as fenced)
- אַהֲבָהʼahăbâhH1601× in this chapter
{affection (in a good or a bad sense)}
- דָבַרdâbarH16961× in this chapter
perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue