Song of Solomon 5:11

bushy Heb. taltallîmoccurs in the O.T. only here, and is a derivative from tâlalor tal= -to hang loosely down," and then -to throw down," but its exact meaning is uncertain. The A.V. margin gives the translation -curled" or -curling," but it probably represents the view that the word means -hills" or -undulations," as some Rabbinical writers understand it. (Cp. Midrash Rabba on Levit. § 19, and Talmud, Tract. Nedarim, fol. 9 b.) In that case the meaning would be, that his locks were undulating. The LXX however translate ἐλάται = -palm buds," or the sheaths of the palm bud, which Schleusner says denotes "curls like those which the spathes of the palm form when they burst to let the fruit appear," when they hang down in ringlets. Others get the same meaning by taking taltallîmfor the pendant parts of the vine, the tendrils.