Song of Solomon 7:2 BSB

Song of Solomon 7:2

Your navel is a rounded goblet; it never lacks blended wine. Your waist is a mound of wheat encircled by the lilies.

BSB

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ASV

Thy body is like a round goblet, Wherein no mingled wine is wanting: Thy waist is like a heap of wheat Set about with lilies.

KJV

Thy navel is like a round goblet, which wanteth not liquor: thy belly is like an heap of wheat set about with lilies.

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Commentary

3 voices

Ambrose of Milan

Commentary on the Song of Songs (397)

His navel is described as a round bowl that never lacks mixed wine, because in all knowledge it is rounded, not lacking in spiritual drink. And his belly is not only nourished by a heap of wheat, that is, by more powerful nourishment of the celestial mystery, but also filled with the sweetness of certain lilies of moral virtue. Hence, she herself is crowned with the blood of Christ as a well-deserving queen, as it is written: And the ornament of her head is as purple.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

Thy navel is like a round goblet,.... According to some, not the navel itself is meant; but a covering of it, a jewel or plate of gold in the shape of it; and because the word for "round", in the Chaldee language, signifies the "moon", and so Ben Melech interprets it, some have thought of the "round tire like the moon", Isa 3:18; though that was rather an ornament about the neck.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Thy navel is like a round goblet - This may also refer to some ornamental dress about the loins. These suppositions are rendered very probable from hundreds of the best finished and highly decorated drawings of Asiatic ladies in my own collection, where every thing appears in the drawings, as in nature. A heap of wheat set about with lilies - This is another instance of the same kind. The richly embroidered dresses in the above drawings may amply illustrate this also.

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Original language & word study

11 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
שָׁרְרֵךְ֙	sha.re.reKh	navel your	H8326 →
אַגַּ֣ן	'a.Gan	[is] [the] bowl of	H101 →
הַסַּ֔הַר	ha.Sa.har	<the> roundness	H5469 →
אַל־	'al-	may not	H408 →
יֶחְסַ֖ר	yech.Sar	it lack	H2637 →
הַמָּ֑זֶג	ha.Ma.zeg	<the> mixed wine	H4197 →
בִּטְנֵךְ֙	bit.neKh	belly your	H990 →
עֲרֵמַ֣ת	'a.re.Mat	[is] a heap of	H6194 →
חִטִּ֔ים	chi.Tim	wheat<s>	H2406 →
סוּגָ֖ה	su.Gah	fenced around	H5473 →
בַּשּׁוֹשַׁנִּֽים׃	ba.sho.sha.Nim	with <the> lilies	H7799 →

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

H7799bashoshanimwith <the> lilies13×

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
Romans 7:4
Therefore, my brothers, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear…
leads to
- 1 Peter 2:24
  He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. “By His stripes you are healed.”
- Galatians 5:22–23
  But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
- Isaiah 54:5
  For your husband is your Maker—the LORD of Hosts is His name—the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer; He is called the God of all the earth.
- Romans 8:2
  For in Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set you free from the law of sin and death.
- Ephesians 5:23–27
  For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, His body, of which He is the Savior.
Through
Proverbs 3:8
This will bring healing to your body and refreshment to your bones.
leads to
- Proverbs 4:22
  For they are life to those who find them, and health to the whole body.
- Psalms 147:3
  He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.
- Proverbs 16:24
  Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones.

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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