Song of Songs 5:12New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— “His eyes are like doves Beside streams of water, Bathed in milk, [And] reposed in [their] setting.
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— His eyes [are] as [the eyes] of doves by the rivers of waters, washed with milk, [and] fitly set.
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— His eyes are like doves beside the water brooks; washed with milk, [and] fitly set.
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— His eyes are like doves beside the water-brooks, Washed with milk, [and] fitly set.
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— His eyes [are] as [the eyes] of doves by the rivers of waters, washed with milk, [and] fitly set.
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— His eyes are like doves by the water-brooks, Washed with milk, fitly set;
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— His eyes, like doves, by the channels of water,—bathing in milk, set as gems in a ring:
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— His eyes as doves by streams of water, Washing in milk, sitting in fulness.
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— His eyes as doves upon brooks of waters, which are washed with milk, and sit beside the plentiful streams.
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— His eyes are like doues vpon the riuers of waters, which are washt with milke, and remaine by the full vessels.
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— His eyes [are] as [the eyes] of doues by the riuers of water, washed with milk, and fitly set.
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— His eyes are like the eyes of doves by brooks of water, washed with milk and fitly set.
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— His eyes are as doves, by the pools of waters, washed with milk, sitting by the pools.
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— His eyes [are] as [the eyes] of doves by the rivers of waters, washed with milk, [and] fitly set. |
His 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).
[ are] as [ the eyes] of doves
3123 {3123} Primeיוֹנָהyownah{yo-naw'}
Probably from the same as H3196; a dove (apparently from the warmth of their mating).
by
x5921 (5921) Complementעַל`al{al}
Properly the same as H5920 used as a preposition (in the singular or plural, often with prefix, or as conjugation 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.
the rivers
650 {0650} Primeאָפִיק'aphiyq{aw-feek'}
From H0622; properly containing, that is, a tube; also a bed or valley of a stream; also a strong thing or a hero.
of waters,
4325 {4325} Primeמַיִםmayim{mah'-yim}
Dual of a primitive noun (but used in a singular sense); water; figuratively juice; by euphemism urine, semen.
washed
7364 {7364} Primeרָחַץrachats{raw-khats'}
A primitive root; to lave (the whole or a part of the thing).
z8801 <8801> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851) Mood - Participle (See H8813) Count - 309
with milk,
2461 {2461} Primeחָלָבchalab{khaw-lawb'}
From the same as H2459; milk (as the richness of kine).
[ and] fitly set.
3427 {3427} Primeיָשַׁבyashab{yaw-shab'}
A primitive root; properly to sit down (specifically as judge, in ambush, in quiet); by implication to dwell, to remain; causatively to settle, to marry.
4402 {4402} Primeמִלֵּאתmille'th{mil-layth'}
From H4390; fulness, that is, (concretely) a plump socket (of the eye).
z8802 <8802> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851) Mood - Participle Active (See H8814) Count - 5386 |
Song of Songs 5:12
_ _ as the eyes of doves — rather, “as doves” (Psalms 68:13); bathing in “the rivers”; so combining in their “silver” feathers the whiteness of milk with the sparkling brightness of the water trickling over them (Matthew 3:16). The “milk” may allude to the white around the pupil of the eye. The “waters” refer to the eye as the fountain of tears of sympathy (Ezekiel 16:5, Ezekiel 16:6; Luke 19:41). Vivacity, purity, and love, are the three features typified.
_ _ fitly set — as a gem in a ring; as the precious stones in the high priest’s breastplate. Rather, translate as Vulgate (the doves), sitting at the fullness of the stream; by the full stream; or, as Maurer (the eyes) set in fullness, not sunk in their sockets (Revelation 5:6), (“seven,” expressing full perfection), (Zechariah 3:9; Zechariah 4:10). |
Song of Songs 5:12
Of doves — Lovely and pleasant, chaste and innocent. Rivers — Where they delight to abide. Milk — Doves of a milk white colour. |
- His eyes:
- Rather, "His eyes are as doves;" the deep blue pigeon, the common dove in the East, whose brilliant plumage vibrates around his neck every sparkling hue, every dazzling flash of colour. And this pigeon standing amid "the torrents of water," or the foam of a waterfall, would be a blue centre with a bright space like the iris of the eye, surrounded by the white.
Song of Songs 1:15 Behold, thou [art] fair, my love; behold, thou [art] fair; thou [hast] doves' eyes.
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.
Hebrews 4:13 Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things [are] naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
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- fitly set:
- Heb. sitting in fulness, that is, fitly placed, and set as a precious stone in the foil of a ring.
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