Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
Song of Solomon 7:7
This thy stature is like to a palm-tree, with its towering stateliness, and thy breasts to clusters of grapes, rather, the clusters of fruit of the palm-tree.
This thy stature is like to a palm-tree, with its towering stateliness, and thy breasts to clusters of grapes, rather, the clusters of fruit of the palm-tree.
Verse Song of Solomon 7:7. _LIKE TO A PALM TREE_] Which is remarkably _straight,_ _taper_, and _elegant_. _AND THY BREASTS TO CLUSTERS_ OF GRAPES.] _Dates_ are the fruit of the palm tree; they grow i...
A brief dialogue; Song of Solomon 7:6 are spoken by the king, Song of Solomon 7:9 and Song of Solomon 7:10 by the bride....
CHAPTER 7 The rapturous outburst in praise of the bride, the saved and glorified remnant of Israel, with which this chapter begins, must not be put into the lips of the bridegroom, the Messiah-King. I...
SONG OF SOLOMON 6:13 TO SONG OF SOLOMON 8:4. THE DANCING BRIDE AND THE RAPTURE OF LOVE. This section also is probably composed of different lyrics, though it is difficult to separate them; we have fir...
Song of Solomon 7:7 Chap. Song of Solomon 8:4. The King and the Shepherdess the last Assault We may suppose that after her attendants have completed the Shulammite's adornment, and have finished thei...
_This thy stature_ or as we should say, _this form of thine_. _is like to a palm tree_ This is a very favourite figure with Oriental poets, graceful slenderness and tall stature being specially admir...
CLUSTERS OF GRAPES— _Dates_ are the fruit of the palm-tree. They grow in clusters, and should be read here instead of _grapes._ See Brown's Observations, and the New Translation....
TEXT 7:1-10 _Solomon; Song of Solomon 7:1-9_ (Song of Solomon 7:1-5 may be remarks of women attendants) _Shulammite_ (interrupting the King); Song of Solomon 7:9 b -...
This thy stature is like to a palm tree, and thy breasts to clusters of grapes. PALM TREE - () The sure sign of water near (). CLUSTERS - not of dates, as Moody Stuart thinks. The parallelism ...
1-6. The _wasf_ begins with a eulogy of her dancing: her steps in sandals (RV) are lovely, and the circling movements of her body are graceful as ornamental chains. In Eastern dancing the twisting and...
A WONDERFUL SONG ABOUT LOVE SONG OF SONGS _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ CHAPTER 7 THE MAN V1 You have *sandals on your feet. Your feet are as beautiful as the feet of a prince’s daughter!...
Next, he speaks about his desires for his wife. He says that she seems as tall as a *palm tree. Of course, she was not really as tall as a tree! The *palm is an especially tall tree. And near the top...
THIS THY STATURE. — Comp. Sir. 24:14. Not only was the tall and graceful palm a common figure for female beauty, but its name, _tamar,_ was common as a woman’s name (Genesis 38:6; 2 Samuel 13:1, &c)....
_[Song of Solomon 7:8]_ זֹ֤את קֹֽומָתֵךְ֙ דָּֽמְתָ֣ה לְ תָמָ֔ר
MYSTICAL INTERPRETATIONS THUS far we have been considering the bare, literal sense of the text. It cannot be denied that, if only to lead up to the metaphorical significance of the words employed, tho...
2. Solomon (Song of Solomon 6:4; Song of Solomon 7:1). His Musing. (a) Description of the Shulamite (Song of Solomon 6:4 a). (b) Effect on the Virgins of the Vision of Her ...
_Grapes. The Church triumphs over her adversaries, and feeds her children. (Calmet)_...
How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights! (7) This thy stature is like to a palm tree, and thy breasts to clusters of grapes. (8) I said, I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hol...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 6 AND 7. And this experience makes her understand through grace another aspect of her relationship, proving a real progress in the intelligence of grace and c...
THIS THY STATURE IS LIKE TO A PALM TREE,.... Made up of the above parts commended, and others had in view, as appears from the relative "this". The word for "stature" properly signifies height, tallne...
This thy stature is like to a palm tree, and thy breasts to clusters [of grapes]. Ver. 7. _This thy stature is like to a palm tree._] This thy whole stature and feature of body, that hath been alread...
Song 7:7. "And thy breasts to clusters of grapes." By her breasts here, most probably, is intended the grace of love, or spiritual complacency; affection to her husband and his children. The bosom is...
_Thy stature is like to a palm-tree_ Tall and straight, or upright. And he seems to mention the palm-tree rather than any other, because it is constantly green and flourishing, and grows upward in spi...
1-9 The similitudes here are different from what they were before, and in the original refer to glorious and splendid clothing. Such honour have all his saints; and having put on Christ, they are dis...
LIKE TO A PALM TREE, tall and straight, or upright, as a tree. And he seems to mention the palm tree rather than any other, partly because it grows more directly upward than other trees; and partly be...
Song of Solomon 7:7 stature H6967 like H1819 (H8804) tree H8558 breasts H7699 clusters H811 thy stature -...
The BELOVED continues. _ “How fair and how pleasant are you, O love, for delights! This your stature is like to a palm-tree, And your breasts to its clusters. I said, I will climb up into the palm-tr...
CONTENTS: Further description of the beauties of the Bride. CHARACTERS: Solomon, Bride (Christ, Church). CONCLUSION: The Bride of Christ bears the image of the King of Kings and in the beauty of hol...
Song of Solomon 7:1. _How beautiful are thy feet with shoes, oh prince's daughter!_ We find the term “king's daughter,” in Psalms 45:13. The church has assurance that the Lord her Maker is her husband...
SONG OF SOLOMON—NOTE ON SONG OF SOLOMON 7:1 This description of the woman’s beauty echoes that of Song of Solomon 4:1 (see her description of the man in...
SONG OF SOLOMON—NOTE ON SONG OF SOLOMON 7:7 In ancient literature, a person of elegance was often compared to a PALM TREE. ⇐...
NOTES Song of Solomon 7:13. _The mandrakes give a smell_. ‘Mandrakes.’ הַדּוּדָיִם _ha-dudhaim;_ plural of דוּדַי a love-apple, from דּוּד to love. So GESENIUS and others. ‘A mandragora (_Atropa mand...
NOTES Song of Solomon 7:5: _The King is held in the galleries_. ‘In the galleries.’ בָּרְהָטִים (_ba-rehatim_), plural of רַהַט, a gutter, rafter, gallery, a hair or ringlet; from רָהַט, an unused roo...
EXPOSITION SONG OF SOLOMON 7:1 HOW BEAUTIFUL ARE THY FEET IN SANDALS, O PRINCE'S DAUGHTER! THE JOINTS OF THY THIGHS ARE LIKE JEWELS, THE WORK OF THE HANDS OF A CUNNING WORKMAN. To the ladies who are...
Now the daughters of Jerusalem address themselves to the Shulamite and they say, How beautiful are thy feet with shoes (Song of Solomon 7:1), Or within thy sandals. O prince's daughter! the joints o...
Ephesians 3:17; Ephesians 4:13; Isaiah 66:10; Jeremiah 10:5; Psa
Palm — tree — Tall and strait, or upright. And he seems to mention the palm — tree, rather than any other, because it is constantly green and flourishing, and grows upward in spite of all pressures....