Parallel Verses

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

His left hand lieth under my head, and his righthand shall embrace me.

New American Standard Bible

“Let his left hand be under my head
And his right hand embrace me.”

King James Version

His left hand is under my head, and his right hand doth embrace me.

Holman Bible

His left hand is under my head,
and his right arm embraces me.

International Standard Version

I wish that his left hand were under my head, and that his right hand were embracing me!

A Conservative Version

His left hand [is] under my head, and his right hand embraces me.

American Standard Version

His left hand is under my head, And his right hand doth embrace me.

Amplified


“Let his left hand be under my head
And his right hand embrace me.”

Bible in Basic English

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

Darby Translation

His left hand is under my head, And his right hand doth embrace me.

Julia Smith Translation

His left hand is under my head, and his right shall embrace me.

King James 2000

His left hand is under my head, and his right hand does embrace me.

Lexham Expanded Bible

His left [hand] [is] under my head, and his right [hand] embraces me.

Modern King James verseion

His left hand is under my head, and His right hand embraces me.

NET Bible

His left hand caresses my head, and his right hand stimulates me.

New Heart English Bible

His left hand is under my head. His right hand embraces me.

The Emphasized Bible

His left hand under my head, then, his right hand, embraceth me!

Webster

His left hand is under my head, and his right hand doth embrace me.

World English Bible

His left hand is under my head. His right hand embraces me.

Youngs Literal Translation

His left hand is under my head, And his right doth embrace me.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
שׂמאל שׂמאול 
S@mo'wl 
Usage: 54

is under my head
ראשׁ 
Ro'sh 
Usage: 598

and his right hand
ימין 
Yamiyn 
Usage: 139

חבק 
Chabaq 
Usage: 13

Devotionals

Devotionals about Song of Solomon 2:6

References

Hastings

Images Song of Solomon 2:6

Prayers for Song of Solomon 2:6

Context Readings

Double Refrain: Embrace And Adjuration

5 Set about me cups of wine, comfort me with apples; for I am sick of love. 6 His left hand lieth under my head, and his righthand shall embrace me. 7 I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the Roes and hinds of the field, that ye wake not up my love nor touch her, till she be content herself.

Cross References

Proverbs 4:8

Make much of her and she shall promote thee: Yea, if thou embracest her, she shall bring thee unto honour.

Song of Songs 8:3-5

His left hand lieth under my head, and his right hand shall embrace me.

Isaiah 54:5-10

For he that made thee, shall be thy LORD and husband, whose name is the LORD of Hosts: and thine avenger shall be even the holy one of Israel, the LORD of the whole world.

Isaiah 62:4-5

From this time forth thou shalt never be called the forsaken, and thy land shall no more be called the wilderness. But thou shalt be called Hephzibah, that is, my beloved; and thy land Beulah, that is, a married woman: for the LORD loveth thee, and thy land shall be inhabited.

Jeremiah 32:41

Yea I will have a lust and pleasure to do them good, and faithfully to plant them in this land, with my whole heart, and with all my soul.

Zephaniah 3:17

for the LORD thy God is with thee. It is he that hath power to save: he hath a special pleasure in thee, and a marvelous love toward thee: yea he rejoiceth over thee with gladness."

John 3:29

He that hath the bride is the bridegroom: But the friend of the bridegroom which standeth by and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly of the bridegroom's voice. Therefore this, my joy, is fulfilled.

Ephesians 5:25-29

Husbands: love your wives, even as Christ loved the congregation, and gave himself for it,

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