Song of Songs 5:11

Bible in Basic English (1941)

His head is as the most delicate gold; his hair is thick, and black as a raven.

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Referenced Verses

  • Song 5:2 : 2 I am sleeping, but my heart is awake; it is the sound of my loved one at the door, saying, Be open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my very beautiful one; my head is wet with dew, and my hair with the drops of the night.
  • Song 7:5 : 5 Your head is like Carmel, and the hair of your head is like purple, in whose net the king is prisoner.
  • Dan 2:37-38 : 37 You, O King, king of kings, to whom the God of heaven has given the kingdom, the power, and the strength, and the glory, 38 Wherever the children of men are living; into whose hands he has given the beasts of the field and the birds of heaven, and has made you ruler over them all, you are the head of gold.
  • Dan 7:9 : 9 I went on looking till the seats of kings were placed, and one like a very old man took his seat: his clothing was white as snow, and the hair of his head was like clean wool; his seat was flames of fire and its wheels burning fire.
  • Eph 1:21-22 : 21 Far over all rule and authority and power and every name which is named, not only in the present order, but in that which is to come: 22 And he has put all things under his feet, and has made him to be head over all things to the church,
  • Rev 1:14 : 14 And his head and his hair were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire;

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Song 5:9-10
    2 verses
    82%

    9What is your loved one more than another, O fairest among women? What is your loved one more than another, that you say this to us?

    10My loved one is white and red, the chief among ten thousand.

  • Song 5:12-16
    5 verses
    81%

    12His eyes are as the eyes of doves by the water streams, washed with milk, and rightly placed.

    13His face is as beds of spices, giving out perfumes of every sort; his lips like lilies, dropping liquid myrrh.

    14His hands are as rings of gold ornamented with beryl-stones; his body is as a smooth plate of ivory covered with sapphires.

    15His legs are as pillars of stone on a base of delicate gold; his looks are as Lebanon, beautiful as the cedar-tree.

    16His mouth is most sweet; yes, he is all beautiful. This is my loved one, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.

  • Song 7:4-7
    4 verses
    81%

    4Your neck is as a tower of ivory; your eyes like the waters in Heshbon, by the doorway of Bath-rabbim; your nose is as the tower on Lebanon looking over Damascus:

    5Your head is like Carmel, and the hair of your head is like purple, in whose net the king is prisoner.

    6How beautiful and how sweet you are, O love, for delight.

    7You are tall like a palm-tree, and your breasts are like the fruit of the vine.

  • Song 6:4-7
    4 verses
    76%

    4You are beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah, as fair as Jerusalem; you are to be feared like an army with flags.

    5Let your eyes be turned away from me; see, they have overcome me; your hair is as a flock of goats which take their rest on the side of Gilead.

    6Your teeth are like a flock of sheep which come up from the washing; every one has two lambs, and there is not one without young.

    7Like pomegranate fruit are the sides of your head under your veil.

  • Song 4:1-7
    7 verses
    76%

    1See, you are fair, my love, you are fair; you have the eyes of a dove; your hair is as a flock of goats, which take their rest on the side of Gilead.

    2Your teeth are like a flock of sheep whose wool is newly cut, which come up from the washing; every one has two lambs, and there is not one without young.

    3Your red lips are like a bright thread, and your mouth is fair of form; the sides of your head are like pomegranate fruit under your veil.

    4Your neck is like the tower of David made for a store-house of arms, in which a thousand breastplates are hanging, breastplates for fighting-men.

    5Your two breasts are like two young roes of the same birth, which take their food among the lilies.

    6Till the evening comes, and the sky slowly becomes dark, I will go to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense.

    7You are all fair, my love; there is no mark on you.

  • Song 1:5-7
    3 verses
    76%

    5I am dark, but fair of form, O daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.

    6Let not your eyes be turned on me, because I am dark, because I was looked on by the sun; my mother's children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vine-gardens; but my vine-garden I have not kept.

    7Say, O love of my soul, where you give food to your flock, and where you make them take their rest in the heat of the day; why have I to be as one wandering by the flocks of your friends?

  • Song 1:13-15
    3 verses
    73%

    13As a bag of myrrh is my well-loved one to me, when he is at rest all night between my breasts.

    14My love is to me as a branch of the cypress-tree in the vine-gardens of En-gedi.

    15See, you are fair, my love, you are fair; you have the eyes of a dove.

  • 14And his head and his hair were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire;

  • Song 1:9-11
    3 verses
    72%

    9I have made a comparison of you, O my love, to a horse in Pharaoh's carriages.

    10Your face is a delight with rings of hair, your neck with chains of jewels.

    11We will make you chains of gold with ornaments of silver.

  • 2I am sleeping, but my heart is awake; it is the sound of my loved one at the door, saying, Be open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my very beautiful one; my head is wet with dew, and my hair with the drops of the night.

  • Lam 4:7-8
    2 verses
    71%

    7Her holy ones were cleaner than snow, they were whiter than milk, their bodies were redder than corals, their form was as the sapphire:

    8Their face is blacker than night; in the streets no one has knowledge of them: their skin is hanging on their bones, they are dry, they have become like wood.

  • Song 7:9-10
    2 verses
    70%

    9And the roof of your mouth like good wine flowing down smoothly for my loved one, moving gently over my lips and my teeth.

    10I am for my loved one, and his desire is for me.

  • Song 2:9-10
    2 verses
    69%

    9My loved one is like a roe; see, he is on the other side of our wall, he is looking in at the windows, letting himself be seen through the spaces.

    10My loved one said to me, Get up, my love, my fair one, and come away.

  • 30My skin is black and dropping off me; and my bones are burning with the heat of my disease.

  • 2It is like oil of great price on the head, flowing down over the face, even Aaron's face: coming down to the edge of his robe;

  • 6Who is this coming out of the waste places like pillars of smoke, perfumed with sweet spices, with all the spices of the trader?

  • 10Who is she, looking down as the morning light, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, who is to be feared like an army with flags?

  • Song 4:9-10
    2 verses
    68%

    9You have taken away my heart, my sister, my bride; you have taken away my heart, with one look you have taken it, with one chain of your neck!

    10How fair is your love, my sister! How much better is your love than wine, and the smell of your oils than any perfume!

  • 14O my dove, you are in the holes of the mountain sides, in the cracks of the high hills; let me see your face, let your voice come to my ears; for sweet is your voice, and your face is fair.

  • 6His left hand is under my head, and his right hand is round about me.

  • 3As the apple-tree among the trees of the wood, so is my loved one among the sons. I took my rest under his shade with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.

  • 1Where is your loved one gone, O most fair among women? Where is your loved one turned away, that we may go looking for him with you?