THE HOLY BIBLE (Darby Translation) Darby's Notes on Song of Solomon

1:1a Solomon's: The separate paragraphs indicate, as far as possible, the succession of the various speakers.
1:2b love: Heb. 'loves:' so ver. 4; chs. 4:10; 7:12. It is the same word as that used in the singular for the 'beloved,' ver. 13, &c., whence also the name David.
1:4c remember: Or 'celebrate.'
1:6d me: Or 'hath burned me.'
1:7e veiled: Others, 'roving.'
1:9f love: Or 'friend:' it is feminine and occurs in ver. 15; chs. 2:2, 10, 13; 4:1, 7; 5:2; 6:4. (It is not the same as chs. 2:7; 3:5; 7:6; 8:4.) This feminine form of the word is only found in this Book and Judg. 11:37, 38, and Ps. 45:14. The masculine form 'friend' occurs in ch. 5:1, 16; 2Sam. 15:37; 16:16, &c.
1:13g night: Or 'That passeth the night,' or 'abideth.'
2:1a narcissus: Feminine, as Isa. 35:1.
2:1b Sharon: See 1Chron. 27:29.
2:7c charge: Or 'adjure,' and so chs. 3:5; 5:8, 9; 8:4.
2:7d please: Lit. 'nor awaken love till it please:' so chs. 3:5 and 8:4.
2:9e Glancing: Or 'showing himself.'
2:17f Turn: Or 'Return.'
2:17g Bether: Meaning, cloven, or full of ravines.
3:5a you: See ch. 2:7.
3:10b support: Or 'bottom part.'
3:10c By: Or 'from.'
4:3d temples: Or 'cheeks;' and so ch. 6:7.
4:8a Amanah: * Said to mean 'firmness' or 'constancy.'
4:14b Calamus: As 'sweet cane;' Jer. 6:20.
5:8a charge: Or 'adjure:' and so in ver. 9; ch. 8:4; see also ch. 2:7.
5:10b chiefest: Strictly, 'lifted up as a banner.'
5:14c bright: Or 'wrought-work of.'
6:12a people: Singular of Ammim: see Ps. 7:8; 'willing,' is as Ps. 47:9: see Ps. 110:3.
6:13b camps: As Gen. 32:2.
7:9c ...: The feminine speaker interrupts here.
7:9d for: Or 'that floweth straight to.'
7:13e mandrakes: Gen. 30:14.
8:2f wouldest: Or 'She would.'
8:4a please: See chs. 2:7; 3:5.
8:11b Baal-hamon: Meaning, 'Master of a multitude.'
8:14c Haste: Lit. 'Break away.'

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