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Song of Solomon 2:6

Song of Solomon 2:6
His left hand is under my head, and his right hand doth embrace me.

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Barnes' Notes

Song of Solomon 2:3-7

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…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

The verb here should be taken as expressing a wish. O that his left hand were under my head, and his right hand were embracing me: or, His left hand would be under my head. Cp. Son 8:3, where the same…