Song of Songs 7:5

In 11 translations

BSB

Your head crowns you like Mount Carmel, the hair of your head like purple threads; the king is captured in your tresses.

KJV

Thine head upon thee is like Carmel, and the hair of thine head like purple; the king is held in the galleries.Carmel: or, crimsonheld: Heb. bound

WEB

Your head on you is like Carmel. The hair of your head like purple. The king is held captive in its tresses.

ASV

Thy head upon thee is like Carmel, And the hair of thy head like purple; The king is held captive in the tresses thereof.

LSV

Your head on you as Carmel, || And the locks of your head as purple, || The king is bound with the flowings!

YLT

Thy head upon thee as Carmel, And the locks of thy head as purple, The king is bound with the flowings!

DBY

Thy head upon thee is like Carmel, And the locks of thy head like purple; The king is fettered by [thy] ringlets!

DRC

Thy head is like Carmel: and the hairs of thy head as the purple of the king bound in the channels.

GNV

Thine head vpon thee is as skarlet, and the bush of thine head like purple: the King is tyed in the rafters.

JPS7:6

Thy head upon thee is like Carmel, and the hair of thy head like purple; the king is held captive in the tresses thereof.

LXXE7:6

Thy head upon thee is as Carmel, and the curls of thy hair like scarlet; the king is bound in the galleries.

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WLC7:6

רֹאשֵׁ֤ךְ עָלַ֨יִךְ֙ כַּכַּרְמֶ֔ל וְדַלַּ֥ת רֹאשֵׁ֖ךְ כָּאַרְגָּמָ֑ן מֶ֖לֶךְ אָס֥וּר בָּרְהָטִֽים׃KJV:Song.7.5

LXX-Br7:6

Κεφαλή σου ἐπὶ σὲ ὡς Κάρμηλος, καὶ πλόκιον κεφαλῆς σου ὡς πορφύρα· βασιλεὺς δεδεμένος ἐν παραδρομαῖς.

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• Isaiah 35:2It will bloom profusely and rejoice with joy and singing. The glory of Lebanon will be given to it, the splendor of Carmel and Sharon. They will see the glory of the LORD, the splendor of our God.
• Song of Songs 4:1How beautiful you are, my darling— how very beautiful! Your eyes are like doves behind your veil. Your hair is like a flock of goats streaming down Mount Gilead.
• Song of Songs 5:11His head is purest gold; his hair is wavy and black as a raven.
• Micah 7:14Shepherd with Your staff Your people, the flock of Your inheritance. They live alone in a woodland, surrounded by pastures. Let them graze in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.
• Genesis 32:26Then the man said, “Let me go, for it is daybreak.” But Jacob replied, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.”
• Psalms 87:2The LORD loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.
• Ephesians 1:22And God put everything under His feet and made Him head over everything for the church,
• Ephesians 4:15–16Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into Christ Himself, who is the head. From Him the whole body, fitted and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in…
• Colossians 2:19He has lost connection to the head, from whom the whole body, supported and knit together by its joints and ligaments, grows as God causes it to grow.
• Matthew 28:20and teaching them to obey all that I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”
• Revelation 1:14The hair of His head was white like wool, as white as snow, and His eyes were like a blazing fire.
• Colossians 1:18And He is the head of the body, the church; He is the beginning and firstborn from among the dead, so that in all things He may have preeminence.
• Matthew 18:20For where two or three gather together in My name, there am I with them.”
• Psalms 68:24They have seen Your procession, O God— the march of my God and King into the sanctuary.
• Song of Songs 1:17The beams of our house are cedars; our rafters are fragrant firs.

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