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Song of Solomon 6:7

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Song of Solomon 6:7 appears in the Hebrew Old Testament. The text above is from the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Each word links to its Strong’s number, a concise gloss, and parsing drawn from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible morphology. Click any word for its full Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) entry.
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Song of Solomon 6:7 (World English Bible). Public Domain. Lemma interlinear Bible study tool, https://lemma.gebible.app/v/song-of-solomon/6/7.

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Your temples are like a piece of a pomegranate behind your veil.
World English Bible · Public Domain
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The same verse in 3 English versions, stacked beneath the original-language interlinear above. Click any original word for its lexicon entry.

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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    Your temples are like a piece of a pomegranate behind your veil.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    As a piece of a pomegranate are thy temples within thy locks.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    Like a slice of a pomegranate your cheeks from behind your veil.

unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).

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Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.

  • World English Bible Public Domain
    Your temples are like a piece of a pomegranate behind your veil.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    Your brow behind your veil is like a slice of pomegranate.
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    Your brow behind your veil is like a slice of pomegranate.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    As a piece of a pomegranate are thy temples within thy locks.
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    Thy temples are like a piece of a pomegranate Behind thy veil.
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    Thy temples are like a piece of a pomegranate behind thy veil.
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    There are threescore Queenes and fourescore concubines and of the damsels without nober.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and young maidens without number.
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    As the work of the pomegranate `is' thy temple behind thy veil.
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    As the work of the pomegranate [is] your temple behind your veil.
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    Your cheeks are like pomegranate halves behind your veil.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    Like a slice of a pomegranate your cheeks from behind your veil.
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    As a piece of a pomegranate are thy temples Behind thy veil.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    Your temples are like a piece of a pomegranate behind your veil.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    As a piece of pomegranate are thy temples within thy locks.
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    Your cheeks are the blushing color of pomegranates behind your veil.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    Like pomegranate fruit are the sides of your head under your veil.
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    Thy temples are like a pomegranate split open behind thy veil.

Literal Standard Version (2020), Covenant Press — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org). Unlocked Literal Bible (unfoldingWord) — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org). unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult). Free Bible Version, Dr. Jonathan Gallagher — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org).

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Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is לְצַמָּתֵֽךְ veil H6777 — appearing just 4 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

לְצַמָּתֵֽךְ veil H6777 occurs in 4 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

  • 4 nouns
  • 1 preposition

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 12 words from the Hebrew and 11 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.

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Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.

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Cross-references

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Topical passages linked to Song of Solomon 6:7 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • Song of Solomon 4:3 Your lips are like scarlet thread. Your mouth is lovely. Your temples are like a piece of a pomegranate behind your veil.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew Song of Solomon 6:7 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

כְּפֶ֤לַח הָרִמּוֹן֙ רַקָּתֵ֔ךְ מִבַּ֖עַד לְצַמָּתֵֽךְ

Your temples are like a piece of a pomegranate behind your veil.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Song of Solomon 6:7 Septuagint · lemma form

ὡς σπαρτίον ὁ κόκκινος χεῖλος σύ καί ὁ λαλιά σύ ὡραῖος ὡς λέπυρον ὁ ῥοά μῆλον σύ ἐκτός ὁ σιώπησις σύ

There are sixty queens, and eighty concubines, and maidens without number.

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →

Commentary

Notes on Song of Solomon 6:7 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.

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Trapp's Complete Commentary

John Trapp

Son 6:7 As a piece of a pomegranate [are] thy temples within thy locks.

Ver. 7. As a piece of a pomegranate are thy temples within thy locks.] See Son 6:4-5; Son 4:2. {See Trapp on "Son 6:4"} {See Trapp on "Son 6:5"} {See Trapp on "Son 4:2"}

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Geneva Bible (1599)

Geneva Bible translators

Meaning, that the gifts are infinite which Christ giveth to his Church: or that his faithful are many in number

Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.

Adam Clarke's Commentary

Verse 7. As a piece of a pomegranate] See on So 4:3.

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible (1810–1826) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

Number. The true pastors are numerous, but hirelings more so. The faithful are innumerable, and all are united in the same faith. (Worthington) --- The spouse and the queens represent the more prefect; the concubines, or wives of inferior degree, those who are led by fear; and the maidens, such as are languid and negligent. (Origen) --- The Roman Church is at the head of all metropolitan, episcopal, and parochial Churches. (Haydock)

George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).

Matthew Poole's English Annotations

This is also repeated from Son 4:3.

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

Lesson kit

Teaching starters — assembled from the data on this page, not authored interpretation. Every prompt links to the verse data it draws on. Edit before teaching.

Song of Solomon, in the Wisdom, opens this verse with 5 words (5 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is tsammâh (“veil”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. How does “veil” (tsammâh) shape what this verse is saying?
  2. Song of Solomon 4:1 shares the word «veil» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
  3. These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
  4. Reading how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Geneva Bible (1599) read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

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