Song of Solomon 8
Study sheet, King James Version, with the original-language words this chapter turns on.
The text
1O that thou wert as my brother, that sucked the breasts of my mother! when I should find thee without, I would kiss thee; yea, I should not be despised.
2I would lead thee, and bring thee into my mother's house, who would instruct me: I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine of the juice of my pomegranate.
3His left hand should be under my head, and his right hand should embrace me.
4I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, until he please.
5Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? I raised thee up under the apple tree: there thy mother brought thee forth: there she brought thee forth that bare thee.
6Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.
7Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.
8We have a little sister, and she hath no breasts: what shall we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for?
9If she be a wall, we will build upon her a palace of silver: and if she be a door, we will inclose her with boards of cedar.
10I am a wall, and my breasts like towers: then was I in his eyes as one that found favour.
11Solomon had a vineyard at Baalhamon; he let out the vineyard unto keepers; every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand pieces of silver.
12My vineyard, which is mine, is before me: thou, O Solomon, must have a thousand, and those that keep the fruit thereof two hundred.
13Thou that dwellest in the gardens, the companions hearken to thy voice: cause me to hear it.
14Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.
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.
- 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
- אֵתʼêthH8536× in this chapter
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
- אַהֲבָהʼahăbâhH1604× in this chapter
{affection (in a good or a bad sense)}
- כֶּרֶםkeremH37543× in this chapter
a garden or vineyard
- לֹאlôʼH38083× in this chapter
not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles
- 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
- אֵםʼêmH5173× in this chapter
a mother (as the bond of the family); in a wide sense (both literally and figuratively (like father))
- אִםʼimH5183× in this chapter
used very widely as demonstrative, lo!; interrogative, whether?; or conditional, if, although; also Oh that!, when; hence, as a negative, not
- נָתַןnâthanH54143× in this chapter
to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)
- עוּרʻûwrH57823× in this chapter
to wake (literally or figuratively)
- שַׁדshadH76993× in this chapter
the breast of a woman or animal (as bulging)
- בּוּזbûwzH9363× in this chapter
to disrespect
- בַּיִתbayithH10042× in this chapter
a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
- בַּעַל הָמוֹןBaʻal HâmôwnH11742× in this chapter
Baal-Hamon, a place in Palestine
- דּוֹדdôwdH17302× in this chapter
(figuratively) to love; by implication, a love-token, lover, friend; specifically an uncle
- הוּאhûwʼH19312× in this chapter
he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demonstrative) this or that; occasionally (instead of copula) as or are
- הָיָהhâyâhH19612× in this chapter
to exist, i.e. be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
- חָבַלchâbalH22542× in this chapter
to wind tightly (as a rope), i.e. to bind; specifically, by a pledge; figuratively, to pervert, destroy; also to writhe in pain (especially of parturition)
- חוֹמָהchôwmâhH23462× in this chapter
a wall of protection
- חוֹתָםchôwthâmH23682× in this chapter
a signature-ring
- אָחוֹתʼâchôwthH2692× in this chapter
a sister (used very widely (like brother), literally and figuratively)
- כֶּסֶףkeçephH37012× in this chapter
silver (from its pale color); by implication, money
- אִישׁʼîyshH3762× in this chapter
a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
- מִיmîyH43102× in this chapter
who? (occasionally, by a peculiar idiom, of things); also (indefinitely) whoever; often used in oblique construction with prefix or suffix
- מָצָאmâtsâʼH46722× 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
- אֶלֶףʼelephH5052× in this chapter
hence (the ox's head being the first letter of the alphabet, and this eventually used as a numeral) a thousand
- נָטַרnâṭarH52012× in this chapter
to guard; figuratively, to cherish (anger)
- פְּרִיpᵉrîyH65292× in this chapter
fruit (literally or figuratively)
- רֶשֶׁףreshephH75652× in this chapter
a live coal; by analogy lightning; figuratively, an arrow, (as flashing through the air); specifically, fever
- שְׁלֹמֹהShᵉlômôhH80102× in this chapter
Shelomah, David's successor
- שָׁםshâmH80332× in this chapter
there (transferring to time) then; often thither, or thence
- תַּחַתtachathH84782× in this chapter
the bottom (as depressed); only adverbially, below (often with prepositional prefix underneath), in lieu of, etc.
- בּוֹאbôwʼH9352× in this chapter
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
- בָּנָהbânâhH11291× in this chapter
to build (literally and figuratively)
- בָּרַחbârachH12721× in this chapter
to bolt, i.e. figuratively, to flee suddenly
- בֶּשֶׂםbesemH13141× in this chapter
fragrance; by implication, spicery; also the balsam plant
- בַּתbathH13231× in this chapter
a daughter (used in the same wide sense as other terms of relationship, literally and figuratively)
- גַּםgamH15711× in this chapter
properly, assemblage; used only adverbially also, even, yea, though; often repeated as correl. both...and
- גַּןganH15881× in this chapter
a garden (as fenced)
- דָבַרdâbarH16961× in this chapter
perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue