Song of Songs 1:15New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— “How beautiful you are, my darling, How beautiful you are! Your eyes are [like] doves.”
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— Behold, thou [art] fair, my love; behold, thou [art] fair; thou [hast] doves' eyes.
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thine eyes are [as] doves.
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— Behold, thou art fair, my love; Behold thou art fair; Thine eyes are [as] doves.
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— Behold, thou [art] fair, my love; behold, thou [art] fair; thou [hast] doves' eyes.
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— Behold, thou art fair, my love; Behold, thou art fair: thine eyes are doves.
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— [HE] Lo! thou art beautiful my fair one, lo! thou art beautiful, Thine eyes, [are] doves!
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— Lo, thou [art] fair, my friend, Lo, thou [art] fair, thine eyes [are] doves!
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— Behold thou are fair, O my love, behold thou are fair, thy eyes are as those of doves.
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— My loue, beholde, thou art faire: beholde, thou art faire: thine eyes are like the doues.
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— Behold, thou [art] faire, my loue: behold, thou [art] faire, thou [hast] doues eyes.
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— Behold, you are beautiful, O my beloved; behold, you are fair; you have dove's eyes.
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— Behold, thou art fair, my companion; behold, thou art fair; thine eyes are doves.
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— Behold, thou [art] fair, my love; behold, thou [art] fair; thou [hast] doves' eyes. |
Behold,
x2009 (2009) Complementהִנֵּהhinneh{hin-nay'}
Prolonged for H2005; lo!.
thou [ art] fair,
3303 {3303} Primeיָפֶהyapheh{yaw-feh'}
From H3302; beautiful (literally of figuratively).
my love;
7474 {7474} Primeרַעְיָהra`yah{rah-yaw'}
Feminine of H7453; a female associate.
behold,
x2009 (2009) Complementהִנֵּהhinneh{hin-nay'}
Prolonged for H2005; lo!.
thou [ art] fair;
3303 {3303} Primeיָפֶהyapheh{yaw-feh'}
From H3302; beautiful (literally of figuratively).
thou [ hast] doves'
3123 {3123} Primeיוֹנָהyownah{yo-naw'}
Probably from the same as H3196; a dove (apparently from the warmth of their mating).
eyes.
5869 {5869} Primeעַיִן`ayin{ah'-yin}
Probably a primitive word; an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy a fountain (as the eye of the landscape). |
Song of Songs 1:15
_ _ fair — He discerns beauty in her, who had said, “I am black” (Song of Songs 1:5), because of the everlasting covenant (Psalms 45:11; Isaiah 62:5; Ephesians 1:4, Ephesians 1:5).
_ _ doves’ eyes — large and beautiful in the doves of Syria. The prominent features of her beauty (Matthew 10:16), gentleness, innocence, and constant love, emblem of the Holy Ghost, who changes us to His own likeness (Genesis 8:10, Genesis 8:11; Matthew 3:16). The opposite kind of eyes (Psalms 101:5; Matthew 20:15; 2 Peter 2:14). |
Song of Songs 1:15
Behold — This is the speech of Christ. The words are doubled to manifest his fervent affection for her. Doves eyes — Which are mild and harmless, chaste and faithful. And by the eyes he seems to design both her outward behaviour, and the inward disposition of her mind. |
- thou art fair:
Song of Songs 1:8 If thou know not, O thou fairest among women, go thy way forth by the footsteps of the flock, and feed thy kids beside the shepherds' tents.
Song of Songs 4:1 Behold, thou [art] fair, my love; behold, thou [art] fair; thou [hast] doves' eyes within thy locks: thy hair [is] as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead.
Song of Songs 4:7 Thou [art] all fair, my love; [there is] no spot in thee.
Song of Songs 4:10 How fair is thy love, my sister, [my] spouse! how much better is thy love than wine! and the smell of thine ointments than all spices!
Song of Songs 5:12 His eyes [are] as [the eyes] of doves by the rivers of waters, washed with milk, [and] fitly set.
Song of Songs 7:6 How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!
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- my love:
- or, my companion,
Malachi 2:14 Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet [is] she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.
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- thou hast:
Song of Songs 4:1 Behold, thou [art] fair, my love; behold, thou [art] fair; thou [hast] doves' eyes within thy locks: thy hair [is] as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead.
Song of Songs 5:12 His eyes [are] as [the eyes] of doves by the rivers of waters, washed with milk, [and] fitly set.
2 Corinthians 11:2-3 For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present [you as] a chaste virgin to Christ. ... But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
Ephesians 1:17-18 That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him: ... The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,
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