Song Of Songs Chapter 5 verse 12 Holy Bible
His eyes are like doves beside the water-brooks, Washed with milk, `and' fitly set.
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His eyes are as the eyes of doves by the water streams, washed with milk, and rightly placed.
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His eyes are like doves by the water-brooks, Washed with milk, fitly set;
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His eyes are as the eyes of doves by the rivers of waters, washed with milk, and fitly set.
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His eyes are like doves beside the water brooks, Washed with milk, mounted like jewels.
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His eyes as doves by streams of water, Washing in milk, sitting in fulness.
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Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(12) Fitly set.--Literally, sitting in fulness, which the Margin explains, according to one received method of interpretation, as beautifully set, like a precious stone in the foil of a ring. If the comparison were to the eyes of the dove, this would be a sufficient interpretation, the image being perfect, owing to the ring of bright red skin round the eye of the turtle-dove. But there is no necessity to have recourse to the figure comparatio compendiana here, since doves delight in bathing; and though there is a certain delicious haze of indistinctness in the image, the soft iridescence of the bird floating and glancing on the face of the stream might not too extravagantly suggest the quick loving glances of the eye. Keats has a somewhat similar figure:--"To see such lovely eyes in swimming searchAfter some warm delight, that seems to perchDove-like in the dim cell lying beyondTheir upper lids;"and Dr. Ginsburg aptly quotes from the Gitagovinda: "The glances of her eyes played like a pair of water-birds of azure plumage, that sport near a full-grown lotus in a pool in the season of dew." The words washed in milk refer to the white of the eye, which swells round the pupil like the fulness of water, i.e., the swelling wave round the dove. The parallelism is like that of Song of Solomon 1:5.Parallel Commentaries ...HebrewHis eyesעֵינָ֕יו (‘ê·nāw)Noun - cdc | third person masculine singularStrong's 5869: An eye, a fountainare like dovesכְּיוֹנִ֖ים (kə·yō·w·nîm)Preposition-k | Noun - feminine pluralStrong's 3123: A dovebesideעַל־ (‘al-)PrepositionStrong's 5921: Above, over, upon, againstthe streamsאֲפִ֣יקֵי (’ă·p̄î·qê)Noun - masculine plural constructStrong's 650: Containing, a tube, a bed, valley of a, stream, a strong thing, a heroof water,מָ֑יִם (mā·yim)Noun - masculine pluralStrong's 4325: Water, juice, urine, semenbathedרֹֽחֲצוֹת֙ (rō·ḥă·ṣō·wṯ)Verb - Qal - Participle - feminine pluralStrong's 7364: To wash, wash off or away, bathein milkבֶּֽחָלָ֔ב (be·ḥā·lāḇ)Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singularStrong's 2461: Milk[and] mountedיֹשְׁב֖וֹת (yō·šə·ḇō·wṯ)Verb - Qal - Participle - feminine pluralStrong's 3427: To sit down, to dwell, to remain, to settle, to marrylikeעַל־ (‘al-)PrepositionStrong's 5921: Above, over, upon, againstjewels.מִלֵּֽאת׃ (mil·lêṯ)Noun - feminine singularStrong's 4402: Perhaps setting or border, rimJump to PreviousBathed Brooks Doves Eyes Fitly Fulness Jewels Milk Mounted Placed Rightly Rivers Setting Sitting Springs Streams Washed Washing Water Water-Brooks Waters
