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**I am come** = I am coming. This is the shepherd's suitable reply to her brief invitation.
**spouse** = betrothed, as in [Song of Solomon 4:8](../../../kjv/song-of-solomon/4/8) , [Song of Solomon 4:9](../../../kjv/song-of-solomon/4/9) , [Song of Solomon 4:10](../../../kjv/song-of-solomon/4/10) , [Song of Solomon 4:12](../../../kjv/song-of-solomon/4/12) .
**I have gathered** = I am gathering.
**I have eaten** = I am eating.
**I have drunk** = I am drinking. (The perfect tenses being used for the present. See Kautzsch's *Gesenius,* 106.)
**wine.** Hebrew. *yayin* . App-27 .
**eat, O friends.** The words of the court-ladies, encouraging the Shulamite and her beloved (masculine). See Structure on previous page.

**I sleep** = I was asleep, or sleepy.
**waketh** = kept awake.
**it is.** Supply "it was".
**my beloved.** Hebrew masculine.
**that knocketh** = he is knocking (masculine).
**my love** = my friend. Feminine. Hebrew. *ra'yah,* as in [Song of Solomon 1:9](../../../kjv/song-of-solomon/1/9) , [Song of Solomon 1:15](../../../kjv/song-of-solomon/1/15) ; [Song of Solomon 2:2](../../../kjv/song-of-solomon/2/2) , [Song of Solomon 2:10](../../../kjv/song-of-solomon/2/10) , [Song of Solomon 2:13](../../../kjv/song-of-solomon/2/13) ; [Song of Solomon 4:1](../../../kjv/song-of-solomon/4/1) , [Song of Solomon 4:7](../../../kjv/song-of-solomon/4/7) ; [Song of Solomon 5:2](../../../kjv/song-of-solomon/5/2) ; [Song of Solomon 6:4](../../../kjv/song-of-solomon/6/4) .

**I have put off.** She quotes ([Song of Solomon 5:3](../../../kjv/song-of-solomon/5/3) ) the reply her shepherd lover gave in her dream.
**defile** = soil.

**put in his hand, &c.** = withdrew his hand. Hebrew "sent away his hand from the hole". So the Septuagint and Rashbam.
**my bowels were moved for him** = my heart was disquieted within me.
**for him.** Many codices read "within me".

**I (emph.):** i.e. I immediately arose.

**my soul** = I (emph.) Hebrew. *nephesh.* App-13 .
**he spake** = when he was speaking of it.

**went about:** i.e. the patrol.
**the city.** She is still in Jerusalem and away from her country home. (See the notes, p. 920.)
**took away my veil.** This was gross insult to an Eastern woman.

**I charge** = I adjure.
**you.** See note on [Song of Solomon 2:7](../../../kjv/song-of-solomon/2/7) .
**sick of love** = love-sick.
**of** = with. love. Same word and sense as in [Song of Solomon 2:7](../../../kjv/song-of-solomon/2/7) ; [Song of Solomon 3:5](../../../kjv/song-of-solomon/3/5) , and [Song of Solomon 8:4](../../../kjv/song-of-solomon/8/4) .

**What is . . . ?** The speakers are the court-ladies, replying to the conclusion of her dream. dost so charge us? = hast so adjured us?

**My beloved.** The Shulamite describes him further to them. See Structure (above).
**the chiefest among ten thousand** = distinguished or conspicuous above thousands. Hebrew "signalized as by a banner".

**bushy** = flowing, waving, or curled.

**rivers** = channels, or gorges. Hebrew. *'aphikim.* See note on [2 Samuel 22:16](../../../kjv/2-samuel/22/16) .
**washed** = bathed: i.e. the doves.
**fitly set** = set as gems in a ring.

**a bed of spices** = a raised bed of balSamaritan Pentateuch Some codices, with Septuagint, read "beds of balsam".
**dropping** = distilling.
**sweet smelling** = liquid.

**as gold rings** = like golden cylinders.
**set with the beryl** = adorned with gems of Tarshish (alluding to the nails, of which great care was taken)
**bright** = polished.

**marble** = white marble.
**sockets** = bases.
**countenance** = aspect.
**excellent** = choice.

**mouth** = voice, by Figure of speech *Metonymy* (of Cause), App-6 .
**altogether lovely** = fervently cherished, or desired. Hebrew. *mahmad.* Occurs only here in this book.
**This** = Such.

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