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Song of Solomon 2:7

Song of Solomon 2:7
I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please.

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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

I charge you I adjure you.

by the roes, and by the hinds of the field The tsěbhî, -roe," is according to Tristram (Fauna and Flora of Palestine, p. 5) the gazelle, Gazella dorcas. He says, "It is…