Song of Solomon 6:7
in Song of Solomon 6Your brow behind your veil is like a slice of pomegranate.
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ASV
Thy temples are like a piece of a pomegranate Behind thy veil.
KJV
As a piece of a pomegranate are thy temples within thy locks.
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This verse in Song of Solomon 6
Commentary
7 notes on this verseA commentator
Ambrose of MilanCONSOLATION ON THE DEATH OF EMPEROR VALENTINIAN 6 · Written before 397.
What are the cheeks of the church of which the Scripture elsewhere says, "Your cheeks are as the bark of pomegranates"? They are the cheeks on which modesty is accustomed to shine, beauty to sparkle, on which there is either the flower of youth or the distinguished mark of perfect age.
This site's exposition
Turn away thine eyes from me
on Song of Solomon 6:5-7
Turn away thine eyes from me, for they have overcome me answers the beauty just named, the bridegroom asking relief from a gaze he cannot bear, an admission the poem's praise songs elsewhere do not make so directly. What follows repeats three images already given at 4:1-3 almost word for word, the flock of goats from Gilead, the shorn ewes each with her twin and none missing, the pomegranate temples, the poem returning to its own earlier praise rather than inventing new figures. Henry reads the repetition as deliberate, love returning to what it has already said because the words are still true, not because nothing new remains to say.
The record, by era
The Medieval Church2 voices
A commentator
Robert of TombelaineCommentary on the Song of Songs, Chapter 6 · Written in the 11th century.
proposed
All these things said above about the Church, we have explained as best we could; therefore we now avoid repeating the same things about the Synagogue. There is one thing, however, that is not repeated in the same way: because there it says "like the …
As the rind of a pomegranate, etc. It was said above that in the cheeks of the Church the insignia of her modesty is figured, in the pomegranate the ministry of the blood of the Lord is depicted. And the bride of Christ has cheeks …
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
As a piece of a pomegranate are thy temples within thy locks. The same descriptions are given in Son 4:3; See Gill on Son 4:3; and these are repeated, to show the reality of the church's beauty, and for the sake of confirmation; and that it still continued the same, notwithstanding her failings and infirmities; and that Christ had the same esteem of her, and love to her, he ever had.
Lest she should think that, though he would not quite cast her off, yet he would think the worse of her while he knew her, he says the same of her now that he had done; for those to whom much is forgiven will love the more, and, consequently, will be the more loved, for Christ has said, I love those that love me.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
As a piece of a pomegranate - See on Son 4:3 (note).
The words behind it
5 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| כְּפֶ֤לַח | kefelach | [is] like [the] slice of | H6400 → | |
| הָרִמּוֹן֙ | harimon | <the> pomegranate | H7416 → | 32 times |
| רַקָּתֵ֔ךְ | rakatekh | temple your | H7541 → | |
| מִבַּ֖עַד | mibaad | from behind | H1157 → | 105 times |
| לְצַמָּתֵֽךְ׃ | letzamatekh | to veil your | H6777 → | 4 times |
כְּפֶ֤לַח[is] like [the] slice of
kefelachH6400 →
הָרִמּוֹן֙<the> pomegranate
harimonH7416 →32 times
רַקָּתֵ֔ךְtemple your
rakatekhH7541 →
מִבַּ֖עַדfrom behind
mibaadH1157 →105 times
לְצַמָּתֵֽךְ׃to veil your
letzamatekhH6777 →4 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
5 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Song of Solomon 4:3Your lips are like a scarlet ribbon, and your mouth is lovely. Your brow behind your veil is like a slice of pomegranate.
it leads to
- Song of Solomon 5:16
His mouth is most sweet; he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.
- Joshua 2:18
unless, when we enter the land, you have tied this scarlet cord in the window through which you let us down, and unless you have brought your father and mother and brothers and all…
- Ephesians 4:29
Let no unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building up the one in need and bringing grace to those who listen.
- Ezra 9:6
and said: “O my God, I am ashamed and embarrassed to lift up my face to You, my God, because our iniquities are higher than our heads, and our guilt has reached the heavens.
- 2 Corinthians 5:18–21
All this is from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation:
- Song of Solomon 5:16
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About Song of Solomon
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Ambrose of Milan, CONSOLATION ON THE DEATH OF EMPEROR VALENTINIAN 6; Bede, Commentary on the Song of Songs; Franz Delitzsch, Commentary on the Song of Songs and Ecclesiastes; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Robert of Tombelaine, Commentary on the Song of Songs, Chapter 6.