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Song of Solomon 1:16

1:15 Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves' eyes. my love: or, my companion
Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant: also our bed is green.

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Behold, you are beautiful, my beloved, yes, pleasant; and our couch is verdant.

Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant: also our bed is green.

Behold, you are fair, my beloved, yes, pleasant: also our bed is green.

1:17 The beams of our house are cedar, and our rafters of fir. rafters: or, galleries

What does Song of Solomon 1:16 mean?

Song of Solomon 1:16 is a verse in the book of Song of Solomon, in the Old Testament. In the original Hebrew, key words include יָפֶה (yâpheh), דּוֹד (dôwd), נָעִים (nâʻîym). It connects to 3 cross-referenced passages elsewhere in Scripture.

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Behold,
thou
art
fair,יָפֶהyâpheh/yaw-feh'/H3303beautiful (literally or figuratively)
my
beloved,דּוֹדdôwd/dode/H1730(figuratively) to love; by implication, a love-token, lover, friend; specifically an uncle
yea,
pleasant:נָעִיםnâʻîym/naw-eem'/H5273delightful (objective or subjective, literal or figurative)
also
our
bedעֶרֶשׂʻeres/eh'res/H6210a couch (properly, with a canopy)
is
green.רַעֲנָןraʻănân/rah-an-awn'/H7488verdant; by analogy, new; figuratively, prosperous

Commentary on Song of Solomon 1:16

HENRY_FULL · Song of Solomon 1:16
o do it. Thou art good, and doest good; Lord, teach me thy statutes, that I may be good and do good, may have a good heart and live a good life." It is an encouragement to poor sinners to hope that God will teach them his way because he is good and upright, Ps. xxv. 8 . 69 The proud have forged a lie against me: but I will keep thy precepts with my whole heart. 70 Their heart is as fat as grease; but I delight in thy law. David here tells us how he was affected as to the proud and wicked people that were about him. 1. He did not fear their malice, nor was he by it deterred from his duty: They have forged a lie against me. Thus they aimed to take away his good name. Nay, all we have in the world, even life itself, may be brought into danger by those who make no conscience of forging a lie. Those that were proud envied David's reputation, because it eclipsed them, and therefore did all they could to blemish him. They took a pride in trampling upon him. They therefore persuaded themselves it was no sin to tell a deliberate lie if it might but expose him to contempt. Their wicked wit forged lies, invented stories which there was not the least colour for, t

Cross-references

Related passages from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

Isaiah 6:10

Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.

Acts 28:27

For the heart of this people is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes have they closed; lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.

Romans 7:22

For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:

Verses like this

Other verses that share key original-language words with Song of Solomon 1:16.

Esther 2:7

And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle's daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maid was fair and beautiful; whom Mordecai, when her father and mother were dead, took for his own daughter. brought: Heb. nourished fair: Heb. fair of form, and good of countenance

Jeremiah 11:16

The LORD called thy name, A green olive tree, fair, and of goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he hath kindled fire upon it, and the branches of it are broken.

Song of Solomon 2:10

My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.

Song of Solomon 5:9

What is thy beloved more than another beloved, O thou fairest among women? what is thy beloved more than another beloved, that thou dost so charge us?

Song of Solomon 6:1

Whither is thy beloved gone, O thou fairest among women? whither is thy beloved turned aside? that we may seek him with thee.

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What does Song of Solomon 1:16 say?

Song of Solomon 1:16 (King James Version) reads: "Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant: also our bed is green."

Is Song of Solomon 1:16 in the Old or New Testament?

Song of Solomon 1:16 is in the Old Testament of the Bible, in the book of Song of Solomon.

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