Song Of Songs Chapter 7 verse 9 Holy Bible
And thy mouth like the best wine, That goeth down smoothly for my beloved, Gliding through the lips of those that are asleep.
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And the roof of your mouth like good wine flowing down smoothly for my loved one, moving gently over my lips and my teeth.
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And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine, ... That goeth down smoothly for my beloved, And stealeth over the lips of them that are asleep.
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And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine for my beloved, that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak.
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Your mouth like the best wine, That goes down smoothly for my beloved, Gliding through the lips of those who are asleep.
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And thy palate as the good wine --' Flowing to my beloved in uprightness, Strengthening the lips of the aged!
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Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(9) Causing the lips.--The text in this verse has evidently undergone some change. The LXX., in stead of siphthei yesheynim, lips of sleepers, read sephathaim veshinnayim, ??????? ??? ??? ??????. The Marg., instead of yesheynim, sleepers, reads yeshanim, the ancient, which Luther adopts, translating "of the previous year." Ledodi, for my beloved, is evidently either an accidental insertion of the copyist, the eye having caught dodi in the next verse, or more probably is wrongly vowelled. The verse is untranslatable as it stands; but by reading ledodai, "to my caresses" (comp. Song of Solomon 1:2; Song of Solomon 4:10; Song of Solomon 7:12), we get a sense entirely harmonious with the context, and this is a change less violent than to reject ledodi altogether. It is the old figure, comparing kisses to wine (comp. Song of Solomon 1:2; Song of Solomon 2:4; Song of Solomon 5:1). "The roof of the mouth" (comp. Song of Solomon 5:16), or palate, is put by metonymy for the mouth generally. Dobeb is either from the root dob, cognate with zob = flow gently, and means suffusing, in which case we translate "Thy mouth pours out an exquisite wine, which runs sweetly down in answer to my caresses, and suffuses (LXX. ???????????, accommodating itself to) our lips as we fall asleep"--or, according to the Rabbinical interpretation, followed by the Authorised Version (which connects dobeb with dabab, a Talmudic word = speaking), there may be in it the idea of a dream making the lips move as in speech. In this case the lines of Shelley suggest the meaning:-- . . . Parallel Commentaries ...Hebrewand your mouthוְחִכֵּ֕ךְ (wə·ḥik·kêḵ)Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct | second person feminine singularStrong's 2441: Palate, roof of the mouth, gumslike the finestהַטּ֛וֹב (haṭ·ṭō·wḇ)Article | Adjective - masculine singularStrong's 2896: Pleasant, agreeable, goodwine.כְּיֵ֥ין (kə·yên)Preposition-k | Noun - masculine singular constructStrong's 3196: Wine, intoxicationMay it flowהוֹלֵ֥ךְ (hō·w·lêḵ)Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singularStrong's 1980: To go, come, walksmoothlyלְמֵישָׁרִ֑ים (lə·mê·šā·rîm)Preposition-l | Noun - masculine pluralStrong's 4339: Evenness, prosperity, concord, straightness, rectitudeto my beloved,לְדוֹדִ֖י (lə·ḏō·w·ḏî)Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singularStrong's 1730: To love, a love-token, lover, friend, an unclegliding gently overדּוֹבֵ֖ב (dō·w·ḇêḇ)Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singularStrong's 1680: To move gently, glide, glide overlipsשִׂפְתֵ֥י (śip̄·ṯê)Noun - fdcStrong's 8193: The lip, language, a marginand teeth.יְשֵׁנִֽים׃ (yə·šê·nîm)Adjective - masculine pluralStrong's 3462: To be slack, languid, sleep, to grow old, stale, inveterateJump to PreviousAged Asleep Beloved Best Causing Fall Flowing Gently Glideth Gliding Goes Good Kisses Lips Mouth Moving Palate Roof Smoothly Speak Stealeth Straight Strengthening Sweetly Uprightness Wine
