Parallel Verses

The Emphasized Bible

HELo! thou art beautiful my fair one, lo! thou art beautiful, Thine eyes, are doves!

New American Standard Bible

How beautiful you are, my darling,
How beautiful you are!
Your eyes are like doves.”

King James Version

Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves' eyes.

Holman Bible

M How beautiful you are, my darling.
How very beautiful!
Your eyes are doves.

International Standard Version

Look at you! You are beautiful, my darling. Look at you! You are so beautiful. Your eyes are doves.

A Conservative Version

Behold, thou are fair, my love, behold thou are fair. Thine eyes are doves.

American Standard Version

Behold, thou art fair, my love; Behold thou art fair; Thine eyes are as doves.

Amplified

(The Bridegroom)
“Behold, how beautiful you are, my darling,
Behold, how beautiful you are!
Your eyes are dove’s eyes.”

Bible in Basic English

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

Darby Translation

Behold, thou art fair, my love; Behold, thou art fair: thine eyes are doves.

Julia Smith Translation

Behold thee fair, my friend; behold thee beautiful; thine eyes are doves'.

King James 2000

Behold, you are fair, my love; behold, you are fair; you have doves' eyes.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Look! You [are] beautiful, my beloved. Look! You [are] beautiful; your eyes [are] doves.

Modern King James verseion

Behold, you are beautiful, my love; behold, you are beautiful; you have doves' eyes.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

O how fair art thou, my love, how fair art thou? Thou hast doves' eyes.

NET Bible

The Lover to His Beloved: Oh, how beautiful you are, my beloved! Oh, how beautiful you are! Your eyes are like doves!

New Heart English Bible

Behold, you are beautiful, my love. Behold, you are beautiful. Your eyes are doves.

Webster

Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves' eyes.

World English Bible

Behold, you are beautiful, my love. Behold, you are beautiful. Your eyes are doves. Beloved

Youngs Literal Translation

Lo, thou art fair, my friend, Lo, thou art fair, thine eyes are doves!

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
Behold, thou art fair
יפה 
Yapheh 
Usage: 41

my love
רעיה 
Ra`yah 
Usage: 9

behold, thou art fair
יפה 
Yapheh 
Usage: 41

thou hast doves'
יונה 
Yownah 
Usage: 31

References

Easton

Fausets

Hastings

Smith

Verse Info

Context Readings

Mutual Admiration

14 A cluster of henna, is my beloved to me, in the vineyards of En-gedi. 15 HELo! thou art beautiful my fair one, lo! thou art beautiful, Thine eyes, are doves! 16 SHELo! thou art beautiful, my beloved, Yea delightful! BOTHYea! our couch, is covered with leaves:

Cross References

Song of Songs 4:1

HELo! thou art beautiful, my fair one, Lo! thou art beautiful, Thine eyes, are doves, from behind thy veil, - Thy hair, is like a flock of goats, which are reclining on the sides of Mount Gilead:

Song of Songs 5:12

His eyes, like doves, by the channels of water, - bathing in milk, set as gems in a ring:

Song of Songs 4:7

Thou art, all over, beautiful, my fair one, and, blemish, is there none in thee.

Song of Songs 1:8

HEIf thou know not of thyself, most beautiful among women! get thee forth in the footsteps of the flock, and pasture thy kids by the huts of the shepherds. --

Song of Songs 2:10

Responded my beloved, and said to me, - Rise up! my fair - my beautiful - one, and come away,

Song of Songs 2:13

The fig-tree, hath spiced her green figs, and, the vines - all blossom, yield fragrance, - Rise up! my fair - my beautiful - one, and come away!

Song of Songs 4:10

How beautiful are thy caresses, my sister, bride, - how much more delightful thy caresses, than wine, and the fragrance of thine oils, than all spices:

Song of Songs 5:2

SHEI, was sleeping, but, my heart, was awake, - The voice of my beloved - knocking! Open to me, my sister, my fair one, my dove, my perfect one, for, my head, is filled with dew, my locks, with the moisture of the night.

Song of Songs 6:4

HEBeautiful, art thou, my fair one, as Tirzah, comely, as Jerusalem, - majestic as bannered hosts!

Song of Songs 7:6

HEHow beautiful, and how delightful, O dear love, for delights:

Malachi 2:14

Yet ye say, For what cause? Because, Yahweh, hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, with whom, thou, hast dealt treacherously, though, she, was thy consort, and thy covenant wife.

2 Corinthians 11:2-3

For I am jealous over you with a jealousy, of God; for I myself betrothed you unto one husband, to present, a chaste virgin, unto the Christ, -

Ephesians 1:17-18

That, the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, would give you a Spirit of wisdom and understanding in gaining a personal knowledge of him, -

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