Song of Solomon 5:11
9 How is your beloved better than others, O most beautiful among women? How is your beloved better than another, that you charge us so?
10 My beloved is dazzling and ruddy, outstanding among ten thousand.
His head is purest gold; his hair is wavy and black as a raven.
12 His eyes are like doves beside the streams of water, bathed in milk and mounted like jewels.
13 His cheeks are like beds of spice, towers of perfume. His lips are like lilies, dripping with flowing myrrh.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- His head is purest gold; his hair is wavy and black as a raven.
- KJV
- His head is as the most fine gold, his locks are bushy, and black as a raven.
- WEB
- His head is like the purest gold. His hair is bushy, black as a raven.
- ASV
- His head is [as] the most fine gold; His locks are bushy, [and] black as a raven.
- DARBY
- His head is [as] the finest gold; His locks are flowing, black as the raven;
- BLB
- His head [is] gold, pure gold; his locks [are] wavy, black like the raven.
- ÅB
- Hans hode er som det fineste gull; hans lokker er kruset, sorte som ravnen.
- OTB
- Hans hode er som foredlet gull; Hans hår er som dadelklaser Og så mørkt som en ravn.
- B1930
- Hans hode er som det fineste gull; hans lokker er kruset, sorte som ravnen.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Song of Solomon 7:5
Your head crowns you like Mount Carmel, the hair of your head like purple threads; the king is captured in your tresses.
Read in contextRevelation 1:14
The hair of His head was white like wool, as white as snow, and His eyes were like a blazing fire.
Read in contextSong of Solomon 5:2
I sleep, but my heart is awake. A sound! My beloved is knocking: “Open to me, my sister, my darling, my dove, my flawless one. My head is drenched with dew, my hair with the dampness of the night.”
Read in contextDaniel 7:9
As I continued to watch, thrones were set in place, and the Ancient of Days took His seat. His clothing was white as snow, and the hair of His head was like pure wool. His throne was flaming with fire, and its wheels were all ablaze.
Read in contextEphesians 1:21–22
far above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in the present age but also in the one to come.
Read in contextDaniel 2:37–38
You, O king, are the king of kings, to whom the God of heaven has given sovereignty, power, strength, and glory.
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