Proverbs 5:19 BSB — MannaFest

Proverbs 5:19

A loving doe, a graceful fawn—may her breasts satisfy you always; may you be captivated by her love forever.

BSB

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ASV

As a loving hind and a pleasant doe, Let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; And be thou ravished always with her love.

KJV

Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.

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Commentary

4 voices

Hippolytus of Rome

Hippolytus Exegetical Fragments (235)

He shows also, by the mention of the creature (the hind), the purity of that pleasure; and by the roe he intimates the quick responsive affection of the wife. And whereas he knows many things to excite, he secures them against these, and puts upon them the indissoluble bond of affection, setting constancy before them. And as for the rest, wisdom, figuratively speaking, like a stag, can repel and crush the snaky doctrines of the heterodox. Let her therefore, says he, be with thee, like a roe, to keep all virtue fresh.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe,.... That is, the wife of youth; let her always appear to thee as amiable and lovely as these creatures are; or let her be loved by thee as these are by princes and great men (w), who used to keep them tame, keep them clean, wash, comb them, and adorn them, and play with them; or rather, as these creatures are loving to their mates, let thy love be single, chaste, pure, and fervent, as theirs; see Son 2:

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Better, “A loving hind (is she) and pleasant roe.” As in the whole circle of Arab and Persian poetry the antelope and the gazelle are the chosen images of beauty, so they served with equal fitness for the masculine and feminine types of it. (Compare the names Tabitha and Dorcas Act 9:36.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

By figures, in which well, cistern, and fountain [Pr 5:15, 18] represent the wife, and rivers of waters [Pr 5:16] the children, men are exhorted to constancy and satisfaction in lawful conjugal enjoyments. In Pr 5:16, fountains (in the plural) rather denote the produce or waters of a spring, literally, "what is from a spring," and corresponds with "rivers of waters."

Voices on this verse

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Original language & word study

11 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
אַיֶּ֥לֶת	'ai.Ye.let	a doe of	H355 →
אֲהָבִ֗ים	'a.ha.Vim	loves	H158 →
וְֽיַעֲלַ֫ת־	ve.ya.'a.Lat-	and a goat of	H3280 →
חֵ֥ן	chen	grace	H2580 →
דַּ֭דֶּיהָ	Da.dei.ha	breasts her	H1717 →
יְרַוֻּ֣ךָ	ye.ra.Vu.kha	may they satisfy you	H7301 →
בְכָל־	ve.khol-	at every	H3605 →
עֵ֑ת	'Et	time	H6256 →
בְּ֝אַהֲבָתָ֗הּ	be.'a.ha.va.Tah	by love her	H160 →
תִּשְׁגֶּ֥ה	tish.Geh	may you be intoxicated	H7686 →
תָמִֽיד׃	ta.Mid	continually	H8548 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Proverbs 5:15
Drink water from your own cistern, and running water from your own well.
leads to
- 1 Corinthians 7:2–5
  But because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband.
- Hebrews 13:4
  Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
- Proverbs 5:18–19
  May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth:
Through
Song of Solomon 2:9
My beloved is like a gazelle or a young stag. Look, he stands behind our wall, gazing through the windows, peering through the lattice.
leads to
- Song of Solomon 2:17
  Before the day breaks and shadows flee, turn, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of Bether.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Song of Solomon 8:14
  Come away, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of spices.
Through
Song of Solomon 7:3
Your breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle.
leads to
- Song of Solomon 4:5
  Your breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle grazing among the lilies.
Through
Song of Solomon 4:5
Your breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle grazing among the lilies.
leads to
- Song of Solomon 2:16
  My beloved is mine and I am his; he pastures his flock among the lilies.
- Song of Solomon 6:3
  I belong to my beloved and he belongs to me; he pastures his flock among the lilies.

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02Original language & word study

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Where the connections lead

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06About Proverbs

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

About Proverbs