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Song of Solomon 8:9

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We have a little sister, and she hath no breasts: what shall we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for?	If she [be] a wall, we will build upon her a palace of silver: and if she [be] a door, we will inclose her with boards of cedar.	I [am] a wall, and my breasts like towers: then was I in his eyes as one that found favour.

Verse Text

KJV with Strong's Numbers

If she be a wall^H2346, we will build^H1129 upon her a palace^H2918 of silver^H3701: and if she be a door^H1817, we will inclose^H6696 her with boards^H3871 of cedar^H730.

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Original Hebrew

אִם־חֹומָה הִיא נִבְנֶה עָלֶיהָ טִירַת כָּסֶף וְאִם־דֶּלֶת הִיא נָצוּר עָלֶיהָ לוּחַ אָרֶז׃

Hebrew	Transliteration	Strong's	Morphology	Gloss
אִם	'im-	H518	HC	if
חוֹמָ֣ה	cho.Mah	H2346	HNcfsa	(is) a wall
הִ֔יא	Hi'	H1931	HPp3fs	she
נִבְנֶ֥ה	niv.Neh	H1129	HVqi1cp	we will build
עָלֶ֖י/הָ	'a.Lei./ha	H5921	HR/Sp3fs	on/ her
טִ֣ירַת	Ti.rat	H2918	HNcfsc	a battlement of
כָּ֑סֶף	Ka.sef	H3701	HNcmsa	silver
וְ/אִם	ve./'im-	H518	HC/C	and/ if
דֶּ֣לֶת	De.let	H1817	HNcfsa	(is) a door
הִ֔יא	Hi'	H1931	HPp3fs	she
נָצ֥וּר	na.Tzur	H6696	HVqi1cp	we will shut up
עָלֶ֖י/הָ	'a.Lei./ha	H5921	HR/Sp3fs	over/ her
ל֥וּחַ	Lu.ach	H3871	HNcmsc	a board of
אָֽרֶז	'A.rez	H730	HNcmsa	cedar

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

Strong's References

• H730 — אֶרֶז (ʼerez, eh-rez'): from אָרַז; a cedar tree (from the tenacity of its roots); cedar (tree).
• H1129 — בָּנָה (bânâh, baw-naw'): a primitive root; to build (literally and figuratively); (begin to) build(-er), obtain children, make, repair, set (up), [idiom] surely.
• H1817 — דֶּלֶת (deleth, deh'-leth): from דָּלָה; something swinging, i.e. the valve of adoor; door (two-leaved), gate, leaf, lid. (Psalm 141:3).
• H2346 — חוֹמָה (chôwmâh, kho-maw'): feminine active participle of an unused root apparently meaning to join; a wall of protection; wall, walled.
• H2918 — טִירָה (ṭîyrâh, tee-raw'): feminine of (an equivalent to) טוּר; a wall; hence, a fortress or a hamlet; (goodly) castle, habitation, palace, row.
• H3701 — כֶּסֶף (keçeph, keh'-sef): from כָּסַף; silver (from its pale color); by implication, money; money, price, silver(-ling).
• H3871 — לוּחַ (lûwach, loo'-akh): or לֻחַ; from a primitive root; probably meaning to glisten; a tablet (as polished), of stone, wood or metal; board, plate, table.
• H6696 — צוּר (tsûwr, tsoor): a primitive root; to cramp, i.e. confine (in many applications, literally and figuratively, formative or hostile); adversary, assault, beset, besiege, bind (up), cast, distress, fashion, fortify, inclose, lay siege, put up in bags.

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

• H518 — אִם (ʼim, eem): a primitive particle; used very widely as demonstrative, lo!; interrogative, whether?; or conditional, if, although; also Oh that!, when; hence, as a negative, not; (and, can-, doubtless, if, that) (not), [phrase] but, either, [phrase] except, [phrase] more(-over if, than), neither, nevertheless, nor, oh that, or, [phrase] save (only, -ing), seeing, since, sith, [phrase] surely (no more, none, not), though, [phrase] of a truth, [phrase] unless, [phrase] verily, when, whereas, whether, while, [phrase] yet.
• H1931 — הוּא (hûwʼ, hoo): of which the feminine (beyond the Pentateuch) is הִיא; a primitive word, the third person pronoun singular; he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demonstrative) this or that; occasionally (instead of copula) as or are; he, as for her, him(-self), it, the same, she (herself), such, that (...it), these, they, this, those, which (is), who.
• 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.

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