Parallel Verses

King James 2000

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

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'.

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.

The Emphasized Bible

HELo! thou art beautiful my fair one, lo! thou art beautiful, Thine 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 My beloved is unto me as a cluster of henna blossoms in the vineyards of Engedi. 15 Behold, you are fair, my love; behold, you are fair; you have doves' eyes. 16 Behold, you are handsome, my beloved, yea, pleasant: also our bed is green.

Cross References

Song of Songs 4:1

Behold, you are fair, my love; behold, you are fair; you have doves' eyes behind your veil: your hair is like a flock of goats, going down from mount Gilead.

Song of Songs 5:12

His eyes are like doves by the rivers of waters, washed with milk, and fitly set.

Song of Songs 4:7

You are all fair, my love; there is no spot in you.

Song of Songs 1:8

If you know not, O you fairest among women, go your way forth in the footsteps of the flock, and feed your kids beside the shepherds' tents.

Song of Songs 2:10

My beloved spoke, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.

Song of Songs 2:13

The fig tree puts forth its green figs, and the vines with the tender grapes give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.

Song of Songs 4:10

How fair is your love, my sister, my spouse! how much better is your love than wine! and the fragrance of your perfume than all spices!

Song of Songs 5:2

I sleep, but my heart wakes: it is the voice of my beloved that knocks, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my perfect one: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.

Song of Songs 6:4

You are beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah, lovely as Jerusalem, awesome as an army with banners.

Song of Songs 7:6

How fair and how pleasant are you, O love, for your delights!

Malachi 2:14

Yet you say, Why? Because the LORD has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously: yet is she your companion, and the wife of your covenant.

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.

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:

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