Song of Solomon 8:3

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I would lead thee, [and] bring thee into my mother's house, [who] would instruct me: I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine of the juice of my pomegranate.	His left hand [should be] under my head, and his right hand should embrace me.	I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up, nor awake [my] love, until he please.

Verse Text

KJV with Strong's Numbers

His left hand^H8040 should be under my head^H7218, and his right hand^H3225 should embrace^H2263 me.

Original Hebrew

שְׂמֹאלֹו תַּחַת רֹאשִׁי וִימִינֹו תְּחַבְּקֵנִי׃

Hebrew	Transliteration	Strong's	Morphology	Gloss
שְׂמֹאל/וֹ֙	se.mo.L/o	H8040	HNcmsc/Sp3ms	left (hand)/ his
תַּ֣חַת	Ta.chat	H8478	HR	(is) under
רֹאשִׁ֔/י	ro.Sh/i	H7218	HNcmsc/Sp1cs	head/ my
וִֽ/ימִינ֖/וֹ	vi./mi.N/o	H3225	HC/Ncfsc/Sp3ms	and/ right (hand)/ his
תְּחַבְּקֵֽ/נִי	te.cha.be.Ke./ni	H2263	HVpi3fs/Sp1cs	it embraces/ me

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

Strong's References

H2263 — חָבַק (châbaq, khaw-bak'): a primitive root; to clasp (the hands or in embrace); embrace, fold.
H3225 — יָמִין (yâmîyn, yaw-meen'): from יָמַן; the right hand or side (leg, eye) of a person or other object (as the stronger and more dexterous); locally, the south; [phrase] left-handed, right (hand, side), south.
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.
H8040 — שְׂמֹאול (sᵉmôʼwl, sem-ole'): or שְׂמֹאל; a primitive word (rather perhaps from the same as שִׂמְלָה (by insertion of the aleph) through the idea of wrapping up); properly, dark (as enveloped), i.e. the north; hence (by orientation), the left hand; left (hand, side).

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

H8478 — תַּחַת (tachath, takh'-ath): from the same as תּוֹחַ; the bottom (as depressed); only adverbially, below (often with prepositional prefix underneath), in lieu of, etc.; as, beneath, [idiom] flat, in(-stead), (same) place (where...is), room, for...sake, stead of, under, [idiom] unto, [idiom] when...was mine, whereas, (where-) fore, with.

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