Song of Solomon 5:10
My beloved is white and ruddy, the chiefest among ten thousand.
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Barnes' Notes
My beloved is white and ruddy - Compare 1Sa 16:12; Dan 7:9. The complexion most admired in youth. Jewish interpreters remark that he who is elsewhere called “the Ancient of Days” is here described as…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
white The Heb. tsachis an adj. derived from tsâchach, -to shine" or -glow," -to be brightly white." Here, and in Lam 4:7, where the word is used of the colour of the skin, it means a clear, white…
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