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Song of Solomon 1:14

Song of Solomon 1:14
My beloved is unto me as a cluster of camphire in the vineyards of Engedi.

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Barnes' Notes

Song of Solomon 1:9-14

This and the next Cant. 1:15–2:7 sections are regarded by ancient commentators (Jewish and Christian) as expressing “the love of espousals” Jer 2:2 between the Holy One and His Church, first in the…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

camphire R.V. henna-flowers, the Lawsonia inermisor henna plant, from which Eastern women get the reddish yellow colour with which they stain their hands and feet (Tristram, op. cit. p. 340). It has a…