Song of Songs 8:14

Song of Songs 8:14 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.
• New International Version (NIV)Come away, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or like a young stag on the spice-laden mountains.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Make haste, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of spices.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Make haste, my beloved, And be like a gazelle Or a young stag On the mountains of spices.

Context of Song of Songs 8:14

12My vineyard, which belongs to me, is at my disposal alone. The thousand shekels belong to you, O Solomon, and two hundred shekels belong to those who maintain it for its fruit. 13O you who stay in the gardens, my companions are listening attentively for your voice; let me be the one to hear it! Make haste, my beloved! Be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of spices.

Song of Songs 8:14 word by word

בְּרַ֣ח׀ דּוֹדִ֗י וּֽדְמֵה־לְךָ֤ לִצְבִי֙ א֚וֹ לְעֹ֣פֶר הָֽאַיָּלִ֔ים עַ֖ל הָרֵ֥י בְשָׂמִֽים׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Make hasteבָּרַחbârach · to fleeH1272
• my belovedדּוֹדdôd dôd · belovedH1730
• and be thou likeדָּמָהdâmâh · to resembleH1819
• to a roeצְבִיtsebîy · gazelleH6643
• or to a youngעֹ֫פֶר‛ôpher · fawnH6082
• hartאַיָּל'ayâl · deerH354
• upon the mountainsהַרhar · mountain: mountH2022
• of spicesבֶּ֫שֶׂםbeώem bôώem · spiceH1314

Commentaries on Song of Songs 8:14

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 14Make haste, my beloved - These appear to be the words of the bride giving permission, but entreating him to speed his return. What these mountains of spices were, we cannot particularly tell; but they must have been thus named from their producing the trees on which the spices grew. They might have been the same as the mountains of Bether, Song of Solomon 2:17; (note), or the mountains of myrrh, Song of Solomon 4:6; (note); where see the notes. Here ends…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 14Come away, my beloved: She asks him to follow her, and he chases her as fast as a gazelle (see Song of Solomon 2:8–10). mountains of spices: Compare Song of Solomon 4:6.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1414. (See on So 2:17). As she began with longing for His first coming (So 1:2), so she ends with praying for His second coming (Psa 130:6; Php 3:20, 21; Re 22:20). Moody Stuart makes the roe upon spices to be the musk deer. As there are four gardens, so four mountains, which form not mere images, as Gilead, Carmel, &c., but part of the structure of the Song: (1) Bether, or division (So 2:17), God's justice dividing us from God. (2) Those "of leopards" (So…Read the comment
• Rashi on Tanakh · v. 14Flee, my beloved from this exile and redeem us from among them.Read the comment

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Commentaries on Song of Songs 8

• 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
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary