Song of Solomon 5:15
13 His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as sweet flowers: his lips like lilies, dropping sweet smelling myrrh.
14 His hands are as gold rings set with the beryl: his belly is as bright ivory overlaid with sapphires.
His legs are as pillars of marble, set upon sockets of fine gold: his countenance is as Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.
16 His mouth is most sweet: yea, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- His legs are pillars of marble set on bases of pure gold. His appearance is like Lebanon, as majestic as the cedars.
- KJV
- His legs are as pillars of marble, set upon sockets of fine gold: his countenance is as Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.
- WEB
- His legs are like pillars of marble set on sockets of fine gold. His appearance is like Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.
- ASV
- His legs are [as] pillars of marble, set upon sockets of fine gold: His aspect is like Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.
- DARBY
- His legs, pillars of marble, set upon bases of fine gold: His bearing as Lebanon, excellent as the cedars;
- BLB
- his legs [are] pillars of marble, set on bases of pure gold; his appearance [is] like the Lebanon, being excellent like the cedars.
- ÅB
- Hans ben er marmorstøtter, som står på fotstykker av fineste gull; hans skikkelse er som Libanon, herlig som sedrene.
- OTB
- Hans ben er søyler av alabast Satt på sokler av rent gull; Hans utseende er majestetisk som Libanon, Utvalgt som sedrene.
- B1930
- Hans ben er marmorstøtter, som står på fotstykker av fineste gull; hans skikkelse er som Libanon, herlig som sedrene.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
1 Kings 4:33
And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
Read in contextRevelation 1:15–16
And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters.
Read in contextActs 2:28
Thou hast made known to me the ways of life; thou shalt make me full of joy with thy countenance.
Read in contextHosea 14:7
They that dwell under his shadow shall return; they shall revive as the corn, and grow as the vine: the scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon.
Read in contextPsalms 92:12
The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
Read in contextExodus 26:19
And thou shalt make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for his two tenons, and two sockets under another board for his two tenons.
Read in contextMatthew 17:2
And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light.
Read in contextSong of Solomon 2:14
O my dove, that art in the clefts of the rock, in the secret places of the stairs, let me see thy countenance, let me hear thy voice; for sweet is thy voice, and thy countenance is comely.
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