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title: "Bullinger"
description: "with shoes = with sandals.  prince"
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**with shoes** = with sandals.
**prince's daughter** = noble maiden.
**the joints of thy thighs** = thy rounded thighs.
**the hands of a cunning workman** = hands of steadiness: i.e. work not hastily done. See note on "as one brought up", &c, [Proverbs 8:30](../../../kjv/proverbs/8/30) .

**liquor** = spiced wine.
**belly** = body.

**roes** = fawns.

**the gate of Bath-rabbim** = the populous gate.

**held in the galleries** = captivated by the ringlets.
**Carmel** = the [mount] Carmel.

**pleasant** = charming.
**love.** Hebrew 'ahabah = love in the abstract. It is not the person who is here addressed. See note on [Song of Solomon 2:7](../../../kjv/song-of-solomon/2/7) .
**for delights** = among delightsome things.

**the roof of thy mouth** = the palate. Put by Figure of speech *Metonymy* (of Adjunct), App-6 , for speech.
**wine.** Hebrew. *yayin.* App-27 .
**the lips of those that are asleep** = slumbering lips.

**I am my beloved's** = I belong to my beloved: referring to her beloved shepherd. The Shulamite speaks, and thus gently but firmly refuses the king's advances.

**Come, my beloved.** (Masc). See note on [Song of Solomon 1:2](../../../kjv/song-of-solomon/1/2) . Thus she apostrophises her beloved (shepherd).

**loves** = endearments. Hebrew. *dodim,* as in [Song of Solomon 1:2](../../../kjv/song-of-solomon/1/2) , [Song of Solomon 1:4](../../../kjv/song-of-solomon/1/4) , and [Song of Solomon 4:10](../../../kjv/song-of-solomon/4/10) , [Song of Solomon 4:10](../../../kjv/song-of-solomon/4/10) .

**give a smell** = diffuse their fragrance.
**our gates** = our gateways.
**laid up** = reserved.

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