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Song of Solomon 6:5

6:4 Thou art beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah, comely as Jerusalem, terrible as an army with banners.
Turn away thine eyes from me, for they have overcome me: thy hair is as a flock of goats that appear from Gilead. overcome: or, puffed me up

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Turn away your eyes from me, for they have overcome me. Your hair is like a flock of goats, that lie along the side of Gilead.

Turn away thine eyes from me, for they have overcome me: thy hair is as a flock of goats that appear from Gilead.

Turn away your eyes from me, for they have overcome me: your hair is as a flock of goats that appear from Gilead.

6:6 Thy teeth are as a flock of sheep which go up from the washing, whereof every one beareth twins, and there is not one barren among them.

What does Song of Solomon 6:5 mean?

Song of Solomon 6:5 is a verse in the book of Song of Solomon, in the Old Testament. In the original Hebrew, key words include סָבַב (çâbab), עַיִן (ʻayin), הֵם (hêm). It connects to 9 cross-referenced passages elsewhere in Scripture.

Hebrew interlinear

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Turn
awayסָבַבçâbab/saw-bab'/H5437to revolve, surround, or border; used in various applications, literally and figuratively
thine
eyesעַיִןʻayin/ah'-yin/H5869an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)
from
me,
for
theyהֵםhêm/haym/H1992they (only used when emphatic)
have
overcomeרָהַבrâhab/raw-hab'/H7292to urge severely, i.e. (figuratively) importune, embolden, capture, act insolently
me:
thy
hairשֵׂעָרsêʻâr/say-awr'/H8181hair (as if tossed or bristling)
is
as
a
flockעֵדֶרʻêder/ay'-der/H5739an arrangement, i.e. muster (of animals)
of
goatsעֵזʻêz/aze/H5795a she-goat (as strong), but masculine in plural (which also is used elliptically for goat's hair)
that
appearגָּלַשׁgâlash/gaw-lash'/H1570probably to caper (as a goat)
from
Gilead.גִּלְעָדGilʻâd/ghil-awd'/H1568Gilad, a region East of the Jordan; also the name of three Israelites
overcome:
or,
puffed
me
up

Commentary on Song of Solomon 6:5

HENRY_FULL · Song of Solomon 6:5
ceived such an indignation at their wickedness as preyed upon his spirits, even ate them up (as Christ's zeal, John ii. 17 ), swallowed up all inferior considerations, and made him forget himself. My zeal has pressed or constrained me (so Dr. Hammond reads it), Acts xviii. 5 . Zeal against sin should constrain us to do what we can against it in our places, at least to do so much the more in religion ourselves. The worse others are the better we should be. 140 Thy word is very pure: therefore thy servant loveth it. Here is, 1. David's great affection for the word of God: Thy servant loves it. Every good man, being a servant of God, loves the word of God, because it lets him know his Master's will and directs him in his Master's work. Wherever there is grace there is a warm attachment to the word of God. 2. The ground and reason of that affection; he saw it to be very pure, and therefore he loved it. Our love to the word of God is then an evidence of our love to God when we love it for the sake of its purity, because it bears the image of God's holiness and is designed to make us partakers of his holiness. It commands purity, and, as it is itself refined from all corrupt mixture, so if we receive it in the light and love of it it will refine us from the dross of worldliness and fleshly-mindedness.

Cross-references

Related passages from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

Proverbs 3:1

My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:

Proverbs 15:16

Better is little with the fear of the LORD than great treasure and trouble therewith.

Proverbs 16:8

Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right.

Proverbs 19:1

Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool.

Isaiah 53:3

He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. we hid: or, he hid as it were his face from us: Heb. as an hiding of faces from him, or, from us

Luke 6:20

And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said, Blessed be ye poor: for yours is the kingdom of God.

Luke 9:58

And Jesus said unto him, Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.

2 Corinthians 8:9

For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.

James 2:5

Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him? of the: or, of that

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Song of Solomon 4:1

Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves' eyes within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead. that: or, that eat of, etc

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What does Song of Solomon 6:5 say?

Song of Solomon 6:5 (King James Version) reads: "Turn away thine eyes from me, for they have overcome me: thy hair is as a flock of goats that appear from Gilead. overcome: or, puffed me up"

Is Song of Solomon 6:5 in the Old or New Testament?

Song of Solomon 6:5 is in the Old Testament of the Bible, in the book of Song of Solomon.

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