Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
What is thy beloved above the beloved, O beautiful one among women? What thy beloved above the beloved, that thou didst thus adjure us?
New American Standard Bible
O
That thus you adjure us?”
King James Version
What is thy beloved more than another beloved, O thou fairest among women? what is thy beloved more than another beloved, that thou dost so charge us?
Holman Bible
most beautiful of women?
What makes him better than another,
that you would give us this charge?
International Standard Version
What is so special about your beloved, most beautiful of women? What is so special about your beloved, that you charge us like this?
American Standard Version
What is thy beloved more than another beloved, O thou fairest among women? What is thy beloved more than another beloved, That thou dost so adjure us?
Amplified
(The Chorus)
“What is your beloved more than another beloved,
O most beautiful among women?
What is your beloved more than another beloved,
That you should so command us to take an oath?”
Bible in Basic English
What 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?
Darby Translation
What is thy beloved more than another beloved, Thou fairest among women? What is thy beloved more than another beloved, That thou dost so charge us?
King James 2000
What is your beloved more than another beloved, O you fairest among women? what is your beloved more than another beloved, that you so charge us?
Lexham Expanded Bible
{How is your beloved better than another lover}, O most beautiful among women? {How is your beloved better than another lover}, that you adjure us thus?
Modern King James verseion
What is your Beloved more than another beloved, most beautiful among women? What is your Beloved more than another beloved, that you adjure us so?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Who is thy love above other lovers, O thou fairest among women? Or what can thy love do, more than other lovers, that thou chargest us so straightly?
NET Bible
The Maidens to The Beloved: Why is your beloved better than others, O most beautiful of women? Why is your beloved better than others, that you would command us in this manner?
New Heart English Bible
How is your beloved better than another beloved, you fairest among women? How is your beloved better than another beloved, that you do so adjure us?
The Emphasized Bible
DAUGHTERS OF JERUSALEMWhat is thy beloved more than any other beloved, thou most beautiful among women? What is thy beloved more than any other beloved, that, thus, thou hast adjured us?
Webster
What is thy beloved more than another beloved, O thou fairest among women? what is thy beloved more than another beloved, that thou dost so charge us?
World English Bible
How is your beloved better than another beloved, you fairest among women? How is your beloved better than another beloved, that you do so adjure us? Beloved
Youngs Literal Translation
What is thy beloved above any beloved, O fair among women? What is thy beloved above any beloved, That thus thou hast adjured us?
Interlinear
Dowd
Dowd
דּד דּוד
Dowd
beloved, uncle, love, father's brother, wellbeloved
Usage: 61
Dowd
References
Fausets
Hastings
Word Count of 19 Translations in Song of Solomon 5:9
Verse Info
Context Readings
Maiden's Praise Of Her Beloved
8 I adjured you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye shall find my beloved, what ye shall announce to him: I am pierced by love. 9 What is thy beloved above the beloved, O beautiful one among women? What thy beloved above the beloved, that thou didst thus adjure us? 10 My beloved is white and ruddy, bearing the standard of ten thousand.
Cross References
Song of Songs 1:8
If thou shalt not know for thyself, O fair one among women, come forth for thyself at the heels of the flock, and feed thy kids by the shepherds' tents.
Song of Songs 6:1
Where went thy beloved, O beautiful one among women? where turned away thy beloved, and we will seek him with thee.
Psalm 45:13
All glory the king's daughter, in front: her clothing textures of gold.
Psalm 87:3
Honored things being spoken in thee, O city of God. Silence.
Song of Songs 6:9-10
She is one, my dove, my perfect one; she is one to her mother, she is the chosen to her bearing her. The daughters saw her and pronounced her happy; the queens and the concubines, and they will praise her.
Isaiah 53:2
He shall come up as a sucking child before him, and as a root out of a land of dryness: no form to him and no decoration; and we shall see him, and no appearance and we shall desire him.
Matthew 16:13-17
And Jesus, having come into the parts of Caesarea of Philippi, asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say me to be, the Son of Man?
Matthew 21:10
And he having come to Jerusalem, all the city was shaken, saying, Who is this?
John 1:14
And the Word was flesh, and dwelt with us, (and we beheld his glory, as the glory of the only born of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
2 Corinthians 4:3-6
And if also our good news is hid, in the lost is it hid: