Song of Solomon 5:14 BSB

Song of Solomon 5:14

His arms are rods of gold set with beryl. His body is an ivory panel bedecked with sapphires.

BSB

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ASV

His hands are as rings of gold set with beryl: His body is as ivory work overlaid with sapphires.

KJV

His hands are as gold rings set with the beryl: his belly is as bright ivory overlaid with sapphires.

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Commentary

4 voices

Bede

Commentary on the Song of Songs (735)

His hands are like cylinders of gold, etc. After the lips, the Church praises the hands of her Redeemer, that is, His deeds after His words, because He showed by His actions that what He taught with words was to be believed. For instance, while …

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

Beryl - Beautiful, and precious, and richly adorned, as it were with gold rings set with precious stones. Belly - Which seems to be here used, for the whole body, reaching from the neck to the bottom of the belly. Saphires - Of a pure and bright white colour, intermixt with blue veins; for some saphires are of a bright blue colour.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

His hands - gold rings set with the beryl - This really seems to refer to gold rings set with precious stones on the fingers, and perhaps to circlets or bracelets about the wrists. Some suppose it to refer to the roundness and exquisite symmetry of the hand and fingers. תרשיש tarshish, which we translate beryl, a gem of a sea-green tint, had better be translated chrysolite, which is of a gold color.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

"To the pure all things are pure." As in statuary to the artist the partly undraped figure is suggestive only of beauty, free from indelicacy, so to the saint the personal excellencies of Jesus Christ, typified under the ideal of the noblest human form.

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Original language & word study

10 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
יָדָיו֙	ya.Dav	hands his	H3027 →
גְּלִילֵ֣י	ge.li.Lei	[are] rods of	H1550 →
זָהָ֔ב	za.Hav	gold	H2091 →
מְמֻלָּאִ֖ים	me.mu.la.'Im	filled	H4390 →
בַּתַּרְשִׁ֑ישׁ	ba.tar.Shish	with <the> chrysolite	H8658 →
מֵעָיו֙	me.'Av	lower parts his	H4578 →
עֶ֣שֶׁת	'E.shet	[are] a plate of	H6247 →
שֵׁ֔ן	Shen	ivory	H8127 →
מְעֻלֶּ֖פֶת	me.'u.Le.fet	covered	H5968 →
סַפִּירִֽים׃	sa.pi.Rim	sapphires	H5601 →

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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
Isaiah 54:11
“O afflicted city, lashed by storms, without solace, surely I will set your stones in antimony and lay your foundations with sapphires.
leads to
- 1 Peter 2:4–6
  As you come to Him, the living stone, rejected by men but chosen and precious in God’s sight,
- Acts 14:22
  strengthening the souls of the disciples and encouraging them to continue in the faith. “We must endure many hardships to enter the kingdom of God,” they said.
- Jeremiah 30:17
  But I will restore your health and heal your wounds, declares the LORD, because they call you an outcast, Zion, for whom no one cares.”
- Isaiah 54:6
  For the LORD has called you back, like a wife deserted and wounded in spirit, like the rejected wife of one’s youth,” says your God.
Through
Exodus 24:10
and they saw the God of Israel. Under His feet was a work like a pavement made of sapphire, as clear as the sky itself.
leads to
- John 1:18
  No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is Himself God and is at the Father’s side, has made Him known.
- Ezekiel 10:1
  And I looked and saw above the expanse, above the heads of the cherubim, the likeness of a throne of sapphire.
Through
Exodus 15:6
Your right hand, O LORD, is majestic in power; Your right hand, O LORD, has shattered the enemy.
leads to
- Psalms 118:15–16
  Shouts of joy and salvation resound in the tents of the righteous: “The right hand of the LORD performs with valor!
- Isaiah 51:9
  Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD. Wake up as in days past, as in generations of old. Was it not You who cut Rahab to pieces, who pierced through the…

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01Commentary

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

06About Song of Solomon

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

About Song of Solomon