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Selected Verse: Song of solomon 1:15 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| So 1:15 |
Strong Concordance |
Behold, thou art fair [03303], my love [07474]; behold, thou art fair [03303]; thou hast doves [03123]' eyes [05869]. |
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King James |
Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves' eyes. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
fair--He discerns beauty in her, who had said, "I am black" (Sol 1:5), because of the everlasting covenant (Psa 45:11; Isa 62:5; Eph 1:4-5).
doves' eyes--large and beautiful in the doves of Syria. The prominent features of her beauty (Mat 10:16), gentleness, innocence, and constant love, emblem of the Holy Ghost, who changes us to His own likeness (Gen 8:10-11; Mat 3:16). The opposite kind of eyes (Psa 101:5; Mat 20:15; Pe2 2:14). |
| Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
In this ardour of loving devotion, she must appear to the king so much the more beautiful.
15 Lo, thou art fair, my love.
Lo, thou art fair; thine eyes are doves.
This is a so-called comparatio decurtata, as we say: feet like the gazelle, i.e., to which the swiftness of the gazelle's feet belongs (Hab 3:19); but instead of "like doves," for the comparison mounts up to equalization, the expression is directly, "doves." If the pupil of the eye were compared with the feathers of the dove (Hitz.), or the sprightliness of the eye with the lively motion hither and thither of the dove (Heiligst.), then the eulogium would stand out of connection with what Shulamith has just said. But it stands in reference to it if her eyes are called doves; and so the likeness to doves' eyes is attributed to them, because purity and gentleness, longing and simplicity, express themselves therein. The dove is, like the myrtle, rose, and apple, an attribute of the goddess of love, and a figure of that which is truly womanly; wherefore ימימה (the Arab. name of a dove), Columbina, and the like names of women, columba and columbari, are words of fondness and caressing. Shulamith gives back to Solomon his eulogium, and rejoices in the prospect of spending her life in fellowship with him. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Behold - This is the speech of Christ. The words are doubled to manifest his fervent affection for her. Doves eyes - Which are mild and harmless, chaste and faithful. And by the eyes he seems to design both her outward behaviour, and the inward disposition of her mind. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| Thou hast doves' eyes - The large and beautiful dove of Syria is supposed to be here referred to, the eyes of which are remarkably fine. |
14 Having [2192] eyes [3788] full [3324] of adultery [3428], and [2532] that cannot cease from [180] sin [266]; beguiling [1185] unstable [793] souls [5590]: an heart [2588] they have [2192] exercised [1128] with covetous practices [4124]; cursed [2671] children [5043]:
15 [2228] Is it not [3756] lawful [1832] for me [3427] to do [4160] what [3739] I will [2309] with [1722] mine own [1699]? [1487] Is [2076] thine [4675] eye [3788] evil [4190], because [3754] I [1473] am [1510] good [18]?
5 Whoso privily [05643] slandereth [03960] [03960] his neighbour [07453], him will I cut off [06789]: him that hath an high [01362] look [05869] and a proud [07342] heart [03824] will not I suffer [03201].
16 And [2532] Jesus [2424], when he was baptized [907], went up [305] straightway [2117] out of [575] the water [5204]: and [2532], lo [2400], the heavens [3772] were opened [455] unto him [846], and [2532] he saw [1492] the Spirit [4151] of God [2316] descending [2597] like [5616] a dove [4058], and [2532] lighting [2064] upon [1909] him [846]:
10 And he stayed [02342] yet other [0312] seven [07651] days [03117]; and again [03254] he sent forth [07971] the dove [03123] out of the ark [08392];
11 And the dove [03123] came in [0935] to him in the evening [06256] [06153]; and, lo, in her mouth [06310] was an olive [02132] leaf [05929] pluckt off [02965]: so Noah [05146] knew [03045] that the waters [04325] were abated [07043] from off the earth [0776].
16 Behold [2400], I [1473] send [649] you [5209] forth [649] as [5613] sheep [4263] in [1722] the midst [3319] of wolves [3074]: be ye [1096] therefore [3767] wise [5429] as [5613] serpents [3789], and [2532] harmless [185] as [5613] doves [4058].
4 According as [2531] he hath chosen [1586] us [2248] in [1722] him [846] before [4253] the foundation [2602] of the world [2889], that we [2248] should be [1511] holy [40] and [2532] without blame [299] before [2714] him [846] in [1722] love [26]:
5 Having predestinated [4309] us [2248] unto [1519] the adoption of children [5206] by [1223] Jesus [2424] Christ [5547] to [1519] himself [846], according [2596] to the good pleasure [2107] of his [846] will [2307],
5 For as a young man [0970] marrieth [01166] a virgin [01330], so shall thy sons [01121] marry [01166] thee: and as the bridegroom [02860] rejoiceth [04885] over the bride [03618], so shall thy God [0430] rejoice [07797] over thee.
11 So shall the king [04428] greatly desire [0183] thy beauty [03308]: for he is thy Lord [0113]; and worship [07812] thou him.
5 I am black [07838], but comely [05000], O ye daughters [01323] of Jerusalem [03389], as the tents [0168] of Kedar [06938], as the curtains [03407] of Solomon [08010].
19 The LORD [03069] God [0136] is my strength [02428], and he will make [07760] my feet [07272] like hinds [0355]' feet, and he will make me to walk [01869] upon mine high places [01116]. To the chief singer [05329] on my stringed instruments [05058].