English Standard Version
Song of Songs 7:7
7Your stature is like a palm tree, and your breasts are like its clusters.
Song of Songs 7:7 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)This thy stature is like to a palm tree, and thy breasts to clusters of grapes.
- New International Version (NIV)Your stature is like that of the palm, and your breasts like clusters of fruit.
- New King James Version (NKJV)This stature of yours is like a palm tree, And your breasts like its clusters.
- New Living Translation (NLT)You are slender like a palm tree, and your breasts are like its clusters of fruit.
Context of Song of Songs 7:7
5Your head crowns you like Carmel, and your flowing locks are like purple; a king is held captive in the tresses. 6How beautiful and pleasant you are, O loved one, with all your delights! Your stature is like a palm tree, and your breasts are like its clusters. 8I say I will climb the palm tree and lay hold of its fruit. Oh may your breasts be like clusters of the vine, and the scent of your breath like apples, 9and your mouth like the best wine. It goes down smoothly for my beloved, gliding over lips and teeth.
Read all of Song of Songs 7Song of Songs 7:7 word by word
זֹ֤את קֽוֹמָתֵךְ֙ דָּֽמְתָ֣ה לְתָמָ֔ר וְשָׁדַ֖יִךְ לְאַשְׁכֹּלֽוֹת׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Commentaries on Song of Songs 7:7
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 7Like to a palm tree - Which is remarkably straight, taper, and elegant. And thy breasts to clusters of grapes - Dates are the fruit of the palm tree; they grow in clusters; and it is these, not grapes, which are intended.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 7-8The husband talks about their intimate moments. He moves up her body and gently touches her breasts.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 77. palm tree--(Psa 92:12). The sure sign of water near (Ex 15:27; Joh 7:38). clusters--not of dates, as Moody Stuart thinks. The parallelism (So 7:8), "clusters of the vine," shows it is here clusters of grapes. Vines were often trained (termed "wedded") on other trees.Read the comment
- Rashi on Tanakh · v. 7How fair and how pleasant you are After having praised each limb in detail, he includes everything in a general statement: How fair you are in your entirety, and how pleasant you are, to cleave to you with a love that is proper to delight in.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Song of Songs 7
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
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