Song of Solomon 2:8

The voice of my beloved This is the literal rendering of the Hebrew, but the word qôl, -sound" or -voice," is often used with a following genitive as an interjection, and then -Hark!" is the best equivalent. (See Ges. Gramm. § 146 b.) Thus in Genesis 4:10, "The voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground," should be, "Hark! thy brother's blood crieth," &c. Cp. Isaiah 40:3. So here, Hark! my beloved, behold he cometh leaping over the mountains, &c.; i.e. it is not his voice, but the sound of his feet that she hears in imagination. (Cp. Oettli.) The mountains might be those round about Jerusalem, but more probably they are the Northern hills amidst which they now are.