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Song of Solomon 5:11

Song of Solomon 5:11
His head is as the most fine gold, his locks are bushy, and black as a raven.

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Barnes' Notes

His head is as the most fine gold - Perhaps in the sense of noble and precious as the finest gold. Lam 4:2. Bushy - Waving like branches of the palm.

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

bushy Heb. taltallîmoccurs in the O.T. only here, and is a derivative from tâlalor tal= -to hang loosely down," and then -to throw down," but its exact meaning is uncertain. The A.V. margin gives the…