Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Song of Solomon 1:17
Cedar — Not only strong, but also fragrant and delightful. Cypress — Which also was strong and fragrant, and therefore suits well with cedar.
Cedar — Not only strong, but also fragrant and delightful. Cypress — Which also was strong and fragrant, and therefore suits well with cedar.
Verse Song of Solomon 1:17. _THE BEAMS OF OUR HOUSE_ ARE _CEDAR_] Perhaps it was under a _cedar tree_, whose vast limbs were interwoven with the ברות _beroth_, a tree of the _cypress_ kind, where the...
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BEAMS OF OUR HOUSE. our bower. CEDAR. cedar arches. RAFTERS. retreat. FIR. cypress roof....
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Render, THE BEAMS OF OUR HOUSES ARE CEDARS, AND OUR RAFTERS ARE CYPRESSES. The meaning is not that their houses are built of cedar, but that the cedar trees and fir trees form the roof over their head...
AND OUR RAFTERS OF FIR— _And our carved-works of cypresses._ Hiller. Our ceilings of cypress. Houbigant, and New Translation. ברותים _berothim,_ are a peculiar kind of trees, which might be called aft...
TEXT 1:152:6 c. Description of a conversation between the Shepherd and the Shepherdess, Song of Solomon 1:15 to Song of Solomon 2:6. Dialogue: Shepherd, Song of Solomon 1:15
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RAFTERS. — Marg., _galleries_ (comp. Song of Solomon 7:5); LXX., φατνώματα; Vulg., _laquearia_; Heb., _rahît,_ from _rahat =_ run, flow: hence (1) _a gutter,_ from the water running down (Gen. 3:38);...
קֹרֹ֤ות בָּתֵּ֨ינוּ֙ אֲרָזִ֔ים _רַהִיטֵ֖נוּ_† בְּרֹותִֽים׃...
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The beams of our house are cedar, rather, our houses, AND OUR RAFTERS OF FIR, rather, our wainscoting of cypress, which is of a reddish hue, hard, durable, and fragrant. The interpretation of this cha...
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RAFTERS: Or, galleries...
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THE BEAMS OF OUR HOUSE ARE CEDAR; not only strong and incorruptible, but also fragrant and delightful. Though I am in myself but a mean and rustic person, yet the house to which I invite thee, and whe...
Song of Solomon 1:17 beams H6982 houses H1004 cedar H730 rafters H7351 (H8675) H7351 fir H1266 beams -...
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1 Peter 2:4; 1 Peter 2:5; 1 Timothy 3:15; 1 Timothy 3:16; 2 Chronic