Song of Solomon 7:3
in Song of Solomon 7Your breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Thy two breasts are like two fawns That are twins of a roe.
KJV
Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins.
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This verse in Song of Solomon 7
Commentary
8 notes on this verseTwo breasts, etc. We have spoken abundantly about this verse above; but now it should be briefly recalled that rightly after the belly of the bride, her breasts are commended, because indeed the holy Church offers milk to her little ones, whom she generates in …
This site's exposition
How beautiful are your sandaled feet
on Song of Solomon 7:1-3
"How beautiful are your sandaled feet, O daughter of the prince" opens the poem's fourth song of praise, built by impression as at 4:1-7. "Your breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle" repeats the twin figure used of her teeth at 4:2 and 6:6.
This site's exposition
twins of a gazelle
This line repeats 4:5 almost exactly, with the lilies of that verse left off. Jamieson, Fausset and Brown heard the daughters of Jerusalem speaking here, so their praise matches the bridegroom's own words. Bede read the breasts as the church feeding her young.
The record, by era
The Medieval Church1 voice
A commentator
Robert of TombelaineCommentary on the Song of Songs, Chapter 7 · Written in the 11th century.
proposed
The two breasts are two peoples: because while they always live in fraternal love, they nourish one another with the milk of piety in charity. They are fittingly called two fawns, twins of a gazelle: because while begotten in faith through the preaching of the …
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
His design to visit the church, with the blessed effect thereof, ver. 8-9. She professes her faith, and desire, ver. 10. She invites him to communion with her, ver. 11.
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Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins. See Gill on Son 4:5.
The Nineteenth Century2 voices
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
The daughters of Jerusalem describe her in the same terms as Jesus Christ in So 4:5. The testimonies of heaven and earth coincide. twins--faith and love.
Thy two breasts - Where the hair and breasts are fine, they are the highest ornaments of the person of a female.
The words behind it
6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| שְׁנֵ֥י | shenei | [the] two | H8147 → | 768 times |
| שָׁדַ֛יִךְ | shadayikh | breasts your | H7699 → | 24 times |
| כִּשְׁנֵ֥י | kishnei | [are] like two | H8147 → | 768 times |
| עֳפָרִ֖ים | ʾofarim | fawns | H6082 → | 5 times |
| תָּאֳמֵ֥י | toomei | twins of | H8380 → | |
| צְבִיָּֽה׃ | tzeviyah | a gazelle | H6646 → |
שְׁנֵ֥י[the] two
sheneiH8147 →768 times
שָׁדַ֛יִךְbreasts your
shadayikhH7699 →24 times
כִּשְׁנֵ֥י[are] like two
kishneiH8147 →768 times
עֳפָרִ֖יםfawns
ʾofarimH6082 →5 times
תָּאֳמֵ֥יtwins of
toomeiH8380 →
צְבִיָּֽה׃a gazelle
tzeviyahH6646 →
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 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 6:6Your teeth are like a flock of sheep coming up from the washing; each has its twin, and not one of them is lost.
it leads to
- Song of Solomon 4:2
Your teeth are like a flock of newly shorn sheep coming up from the washing; each has its twin, and not one of them is lost.
- Matthew 25:30
And throw that worthless servant into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’
- Matthew 21:19
Seeing a fig tree by the road, He went up to it but found nothing on it except leaves. “May you never bear fruit again!” He said. And immediately the tree withered.
- Song of Solomon 4:2
Through
Song of Solomon 4:5Your breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle grazing among the lilies.
it 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.
- 1 Peter 2:2
Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation,
- Proverbs 5:19
A loving doe, a graceful fawn—may her breasts satisfy you always; may you be captivated by her love forever.
- Song of Solomon 8:10
I am a wall, and my breasts are like towers. So I have become in his eyes like one who brings peace.
- Song of Solomon 2:16
About Song of Solomon
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Bede, Commentary on the Song of Songs; Franz Delitzsch, Commentary on the Song of Songs and Ecclesiastes; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Robert of Tombelaine, Commentary on the Song of Songs, Chapter 7.