Song of Solomon 2:5
Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love.
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The bride’s answer: “As the ‘tappuach’ with its fragrant fruit excels the barren trees of the wild wood, so my beloved his associates and friends etc.” תפוח tappûach may in early Hebrew have been a…
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flagons The Heb. "ashîshôthmeans raisin cakes, cp. Hos 3:1, and is connected possibly with Arab. "assasa, -to found" or -establish," and so -cakes of pressed fruit." The LXX translate ἐν μύροις and…
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