Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Song of Solomon 4:2
A flock — Numerous, and placed in due order. Even — Smooth and even, as also clean and white. Twins — Which seems to denote the two rows of teeth. Barren — Not one tooth is lacking.
A flock — Numerous, and placed in due order. Even — Smooth and even, as also clean and white. Twins — Which seems to denote the two rows of teeth. Barren — Not one tooth is lacking.
Verse Song of Solomon 4:2. _THY TEETH_ ARE _LIKE A FLOCK_] This comparison appears to be founded on the _evenness, neatness_, and _whiteness_ of the _newly_ _shorn_ and newly _washed_ sheep....
WHEREOF ... - Or, “all of them are equal pairs, and none is bereft among them,” i. e., none has lost her mate. The points of comparison in this simile are of course brilliant whiteness, regularity, an...
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EVEN. evenly. WHEREOF EVERY ONE BEAR TWINS. all of which are paired. BARREN. bereaved, as in Jeremiah 18:21....
Song of Solomon 4:1-7. The Royal Suitor King Solomon is here the speaker, and in these verses he presses his suit anew by praise of the Shulammite's beauty. The whole song is evidently modelled, as s...
The A.V. has supplied a great deal in the first clause, and has diverted the comparison thereby from the whiteness to the evenness of the teeth. The comparison is really this, _Thy teeth are like a fl...
WHEREOF EVERY ONE BEAR TWINS— _Which are all of them twins, and none hath lost its fellow._ New Translation....
TEXT 4:1-7 _THIRD SCENEThe Lover's Interviews Song of Solomon 4:1_ to Song of Solomon 5:1 First Meeting (Jerusalem?): Shepherd's Monologue, Song of Solomon 4:1-7 1. Beh
Thy teeth are like a flock of sheep that are even shorn, which came up from the washing; whereof every one bear twins, and none is barren among them. THY TEETH (ARE) LIKE A FLOCK ... SHORN. The Heb...
Her teeth are white, regular, a perfect set. Her cheek resembles the rich colours of the pomegranate. She has a swan's neck, a graceful, slender tower, hung round with ornaments, as the tower of David...
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The couple often use descriptions that seem strange to us today. But they are describing things that they considered beautiful. For example, wild goats on a mountain may not seem beautiful to us. But...
THY TEETH... — _i.e., white as newly washed sheep._ The word translated _shorn_ is only used as a synonym for _sheep,_ as we see by comparison with Song of Solomon 6:6. The only other place where it i...
שִׁנַּ֨יִךְ֙ כְּ עֵ֣דֶר הַ קְּצוּבֹ֔ות שֶׁ עָ
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Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves' eyes within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead. (2) Thy teeth are like a flock of sheep t...
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THY TEETH [ARE] LIKE A FLOCK [OF SHEEP],.... That is, like the teeth of a flock of sheep; as her eyes were like the eyes of doves, and her hair like the hair of goats: and Galen long ago observed, tha...
Thy teeth [are] like a flock [of sheep that are even] shorn, which came up from the washing; whereof every one bear twins, and none [is] barren among them. Ver. 2. _Thy teeth are like a flock of shee...
_Thy teeth are like a flock of sheep_ Numerous, and placed in due order: _that are even and shorn_ Smooth and even, as also clean and white. _Whereof every one bears twins_ Which seems to denote the t...
Thy teeth are like a flock of sheep that are even shorn, which came up from the washing, regular and snow-white; WHEREOF EVERY ONE BEAR TWINS, and none is barren among them, the upper and the lower se...
THE CHURCH'S STATE OF GRACE. The Comeliness of the Church...
1-7 If each of these comparisons has a meaning applicable to the graces of the church, or of the faithful Christian, they are not clearly known; and great mistakes are made by fanciful guesses. The m...
THY TEETH ARE LIKE A FLOCK, numerous, and placed in due order, of sheep; which is here fitly supplied out of SONG OF SOLOMON 6:6, where it is expressed. EVEN SHORN; smooth and even, as also clean and...
Song of Solomon 4:2 teeth H8127 flock H5739 shorn H7094 (H8803) up H5927 (H8804) washing H7367 twins H8382
“Behold, you are fair, my love; behold, you are fair, Your eyes are as doves behind your veil. Your hair is as a flock of goats, Which lie along the side of mount Gilead. Your teeth are like a flock...
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SONG OF SOLOMON—NOTE ON SONG OF SOLOMON 4:1 The first part of v. Song of Solomon 4:1 is repeated in v....
SONG OF SOLOMON—NOTE ON SONG OF SOLOMON 4:2 TWINS... NOT ONE... HAS LOST ITS YOUNG. Her teeth are white, straight, and even. ⇐...
NOTES Song of Solomon 4:6: _Until the day dawn, and the shadows flew away, I will get me to the mountain of myrrh and to the hill of frankincense_. ‘Until the day dawn’ (עַדשָׁיָּפוּחַ הַיּוֹם, _adh s...
EXPOSITION SONG OF SOLOMON 4:1 BEHOLD, THOU ART FAIR, MY LOVE; BEHOLD, THOU ART FAIR; THINE EYES ARE AS DOVES BEHIND THY VEIL; THINE HAIR IS AS A FLOCK OF GOATS, THAT LIE ALONG THE SIDE OF MOUNT GILE...
And now the bridegroom speaks. Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves' eyes within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead. Thy teeth...
1 Thessalonians 2:13; 2 Peter 1:5; Colossians 1:4; Deuteronomy 7:13;...