Song of Songs 7:1

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

How beautiful are thy feet with shoes, O prince's daughter! the joints of thy thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a cunning workman.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

שׁ֤וּבִי שׁ֙וּבִי֙ הַשּׁ֣וּלַמִּ֔ית שׁ֥וּבִי שׁ֖וּבִי וְנֶחֱזֶה־בָּ֑ךְ מַֽה־תֶּחֱזוּ֙ בַּשּׁ֣וּלַמִּ֔ית כִּמְחֹלַ֖ת הַֽמַּחֲנָֽיִם׃

Transliteration

šûbî šûbî haššûlammît šûbî šûbî wə-neḥĕzeh-bāk mah-teḥĕzû baššûlammît kimḥōlat hammaḥănāyim

Grammar Details

*šûbî*: imperative, feminine singular - return/turn
*haššûlammît*: definite article + proper noun, feminine singular - the Shulammite
*wə-neḥĕzeh*: conjunction + cohortative verb, 1st person plural - and let us gaze/look
*bāk*: preposition + 2nd person feminine singular suffix - at you
*mah*: interrogative pronoun - what
*teḥĕzû*: imperfect, 2nd person plural - you see/gaze
*baššûlammît*: preposition + definite article + proper noun - in/at the Shulammite
*kimḥōlat*: preposition + construct noun - like the dance of
*hammaḥănāyim*: definite article + noun, dual form - the two camps/companies

Word Meanings

*šûbî*: return/turn/come back
*neḥĕzeh*: gaze/look upon/behold
*teḥĕzû*: see/gaze/behold
*haššûlammît*: the Shulammite/woman from Shulem/perfect one
*kimḥōlat*: like the dance of/as the dancing of
*hammaḥănāyim*: the two camps/the two armies/Mahanaim (place name)

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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Ps 45:13 : 13 The king's daughter is all glorious within: her clothing is of wrought gold.
Dan 2:32 : 32 This image's head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass,
Luke 15:22 : 22 But the father said to his servants, Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet:
2 Cor 6:18 : 18 And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.
Eph 4:15-16 : 15 But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ: 16 From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.
Eph 6:15 : 15 And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;
Phil 1:27 : 27 Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;
Col 2:19 : 19 And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God.
Exod 28:15 : 15 And thou shalt make the breastplate of judgment with cunning work; after the work of the ephod thou shalt make it; of gold, of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, and of fine twined linen, shalt thou make it.
Exod 35:35 : 35 Them hath he filled with wisdom of heart, to work all manner of work, of the engraver, and of the cunning workman, and of the embroiderer, in blue, and in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the weaver, even of them that do any work, and of those that devise cunning work.

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