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Admiration by the Bridegroom

Song of Songs 7:3

In 11 translations

BSB
Your breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle.
KJV
Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins.
WEB
Your two breasts are like two fawns, that are twins of a roe.
ASV
Thy two breasts are like two fawns That are twins of a roe.
LSV
Your two breasts as two young ones, twins of a roe,
YLT
Thy two breasts as two young ones, twins of a roe,
DBY
Thy two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle;
DRC
Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins.
GNV
Thy two breastes are as two young roes that are twinnes.
JPS7:4
Thy two breasts are like two fawns that are twins of a gazelle.
LXXE7:4
Thy two breasts are as two twin fawns.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC7:4
שְׁנֵ֥י שָׁדַ֛יִךְ כִּשְׁנֵ֥י עֳפָרִ֖ים תָּאֳמֵ֥י צְבִיָּֽה׃KJV:Song.7.3
LXX-Br7:4
Δύο μαστοί σου, ὡς δύο νεβροὶ δίδυμοι δορκάδος.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • Song of Songs 4:5Your breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle grazing among the lilies.
  • Song of Songs 6:6Your teeth are like a flock of sheep coming up from the washing; each has its twin, and not one of them is lost.

From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).

Verse numbering differs between Bibles
  • 7:4 in some Bibles
  • 7:3 in most Bibles

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