Song of Solomon 5:12
His eyes are as the eyes of doves by the rivers of waters, washed with milk, and fitly set .
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Barnes' Notes
Or, His eyes are doves. The comparison is to doves seen by streams of water washing in milk (i. e., milk-white), and sitting on fulness (i. e., on the full or abundant water-flood). Fitly set - This…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
His eyes, &c. R.V. His eyes are like doves beside the water brooks. Here the idea is different from that in Son 1:15 and Son 4:1. It is not the innocent dove-like look of the eye that is referred to.…
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