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 1 How beautiful are thy feet with shoes, O prince’s daughter! the joints of thy thighs *are* like jewels, the work of the hands of a cunning workman.

 2 Thy navel *is like* a round goblet, *which* wanteth not liquor: thy belly *is like* an heap of wheat set about with lilies.*

 3 Thy two breasts *are* like two young roes *that are* twins.

 4 Thy neck *is* as a tower of ivory; thine eyes *like* the fishpools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bath-rabbim: thy nose *is* as the tower of Lebanon which looketh toward Damascus.

 5 Thine head upon thee *is* like Carmel, and the hair of thine head like purple; the king *is* held in the galleries.**

 6 How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!

 7 This thy stature is like to a palm tree, and thy breasts to clusters *of grapes*.

 8 I said, I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of the boughs thereof: now also thy breasts shall be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of thy nose like apples;

 9 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.**

 10 ¶ I *am* my beloved’s, and his desire *is* toward me.

 11 Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages.

 12 Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish, *whether* the tender grape appear, *and* the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my loves.*

 13 The mandrakes give a smell, and at our gates *are* all manner of pleasant *fruits*, new and old, *which* I have laid up for thee, O my beloved.
 
[Song of Solomon 6](/study/song-of-solomon/6) [Song of Solomon 8](/study/song-of-solomon/8)

## Commentary

 To verse 1
 
1*a* How beautiful are thy steps in the shoes, 

O prince's daughter! 

The noun נדיב , which signifies noble in disposition, and then noble by birth and rank (cf. the reverse relation of the meanings in *generosus*), is in the latter sense synon. and parallel to מלך and שׂר ; Shulamith is here called a prince's daughter because she was raised to the rank of which Hannah, [1 Samuel 2:8](/kjv/1-samuel/2/8), cf. [Psalms 113:8](/kjv/psalms/113/8), speaks, and to which she herself, 6:12 points. Her beauty, from the first associated with unaffected dignity, now appears in native princely grace and majesty. פּעם (from פּעם , *pulsare*, as *in nunc pede libero pulsanda tellus*) signifies step and foot, - in the latter sense the poet. Heb. and the vulgar Phoen. word for רגל ; here the meanings *pes* and *passus* (Fr. *pas*, dance-step) flow into each other. The praise of the spectators now turns from the feet of the dancer to her thighs: 

1*b* The vibration of thy thighs like ornamental chains, 

The work of an artist's hands. 

The double-sided thighs, viewed from the spine and the lower part of the back, are called מתנים ; from the upper part of the legs upwards, and the breast downwards (the lumbar region), thus seen on the front and sidewise, חלצים or ירכים . Here the manifold twistings and windings of the upper part of the body by means of the thigh-joint are meant; such movements of a circular kind are called חמּוּקים , from חמק , [Song of Solomon 5:6](/kjv/song-of-solomon/5/6). חלאים is the plur. of חלי = (Arab.) ḥaly , as חבאים (gazelles) of צבי = zaby . The sing. חלי (or חליה = Arab. hulyah ) signifies a female ornament, consisting of gold, silver, or precious stones, and that (according to the connection, [Proverbs 25:2](/kjv/proverbs/25/2); [Hosea 2:15](/kjv/hosea/2/15)) for the neck or the breast as a whole; the plur. חל , occurring only here, is therefore chosen because the bendings of the loins, full of life and beauty, are compared to the free swingings to and fro of such an ornament, and thus to a connected ornament of chains; for חם are not the beauty-curves of the thighs at rest, - the connection here requires movement. In accordance with the united idea of חל , the appos. is not מעשׂי , but (according to the Palestin.) מעשׂה (lxx, Targ., Syr., Venet.). The artist is called אמּן ( ommân ) (the forms אמן and אמן are also found), Syr. avmon , Jewish-Aram. אוּמן ; he has, as the master of stability, a name like ימין , the right hand: the hand, and especially the right hand, is the *artifex* among the members. 

(Note: *Vid*., Ryssel's *Die Syn. d. Wahren u. Guten in d. Sem. Spr*. (1873), p. 12.) 

The eulogists pass from the loins to the middle part of the body. In dancing, especially in the Oriental style of dancing, which is the mimic representation of animated feeling, the breast and the body are raised, and the forms of the body appear through the clothing.

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