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Song of Solomon 7:6

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Thine head upon thee [is] like Carmel, and the hair of thine head like purple; the king [is] held in the galleries.	How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!	This thy stature is like to a palm tree, and thy breasts to clusters [of grapes].

Verse Text

KJV with Strong's Numbers

How fair^H3302 and how pleasant^H5276 art thou, O love^H160, for delights^H8588!

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Original Hebrew

רֹאשֵׁךְ עָלַיִךְ כַּכַּרְמֶל וְדַלַּת רֹאשֵׁךְ כָּאַרְגָּמָן מֶלֶךְ אָסוּר בָּרְהָטִים׃

Hebrew	Transliteration	Strong's	Morphology	Gloss
רֹאשֵׁ֤/ךְ	ro.She/kh	H7218	HNcmsc/Sp2fs	head/ your
עָלַ֨יִ/ךְ֙	'a.La.yi/kh	H5921	HR/Sp2fs	on/ you
כַּ/כַּרְמֶ֔ל	ka./kar.Mel	H3760	HRd/Np	(is) like (the)/ Carmel
וְ/דַלַּ֥ת	ve./da.Lat	H1803	HC/Ncfsc	and/ (the) hair of
רֹאשֵׁ֖/ךְ	ro.She/kh	H7218	HNcmsc/Sp2fs	head/ your
כָּ/אַרְגָּמָ֑ן	ka./'ar.ga.Man	H713	HRd/Ncmsa	(is) like (the)/ purple wool
מֶ֖לֶךְ	Me.lekh	H4428	HNcmsa	(the) king
אָס֥וּר	'a.Sur	H631	HVqsmsa	(is) bound
בָּ/רְהָטִֽים	ba./re.ha.Tim	H7298	HRd/Ncmpa	by the/ tresses

Source: Westminster Leningrad Codex (MorphHB), TAHOT (Tyndale House)

Strong's References

• H160 — אַהֲבָה (ʼahăbâh, a-hab-aw): feminine of אַהַב and meaning the same; {affection (in a good or a bad sense)}; love.
• H3302 — יָפָה (yâphâh, yaw-faw'): a primitive root; properly, to be bright, i.e. (by implication) beautiful; be beautiful, be (make self) fair(-r), deck.
• H5276 — נָעֵם (nâʻêm, naw-ame'): a primitive root; to be agreeable (literally or figuratively); pass in beauty, be delight, be pleasant, be sweet.
• H8588 — תַּעֲנוּג (taʻănûwg, tah-an-oog'): or תַּעֲנֻג; and (feminine) תַּעֲנֻגָה; from עָנַג; luxury; delicate, delight, pleasant.

The following Strong's numbers are referenced in the Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) text but were not explicitly tagged in the KJV source:

• H631 — אָסַר (ʼâçar, aw-sar'): a primitive root; to yoke or hitch; by analogy, to fasten in any sense, to join battle; bind, fast, gird, harness, hold, keep, make ready, order, prepare, prison(-er), put in bonds, set in array, tie.
• H713 — אַרְגָּמָן (ʼargâmân, ar-gaw-mawn'): of foreign origin; purple (the color or the dyed stuff); purple.
• H1803 — דַּלָּה (dallâh, dal-law'): from דָּלָה; properly, something dangling, i.e. a loose thread or hair; figuratively, indigent; hair, pining sickness, poor(-est sort).
• H3760 — כַּרְמֶל (Karmel, kar-mel'): the same as כַּרְמֶל; Karmel, the name of a hill and of a town in Palestine; Carmel, fruitful (plentiful) field, (place).
• H4428 — מֶלֶךְ (melek, meh'-lek): from מָלַךְ; a king; king, royal.
• H5921 — עַל (ʻal, al): properly, the same as עַל used as a preposition (in the singular or plural often with prefix, or as conjunction with a particle following); above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications; above, according to(-ly), after, (as) against, among, and, [idiom] as, at, because of, beside (the rest of), between, beyond the time, [idiom] both and, by (reason of), [idiom] had the charge of, concerning for, in (that), (forth, out) of, (from) (off), (up-) on, over, than, through(-out), to, touching, [idiom] with.
• H7218 — רֹאשׁ (rôʼsh, roshe): from an unused root apparently meaning to shake; the head (as most easily shaken), whether literal or figurative (in many applications, of place, time, rank, itc.); band, beginning, captain, chapiter, chief(-est place, man, things), company, end, [idiom] every (man), excellent, first, forefront, (be-)head, height, (on) high(-est part, (priest)), [idiom] lead, [idiom] poor, principal, ruler, sum, top.
• H7298 — רַהַט (rahaṭ, rah'-hat): from an unused root apparently meaning to hollow out; a channel or watering-box; by resemblance a ringlet of hair (as forming parallel lines); gallery, gutter, trough.

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