Polyglot Bible: Song of Solomon: Song of Solomon 3

This is a scholarly parallel-text presentation of Song of Songs (Song of Solomon) chapter 3, verses 1–11, displaying four versions side by side: the Hebrew Masoretic text (Tanakh), the Greek Septuagint, the Latin Vulgate, and the English King James Version — with Strong's concordance numbers embedded in the KJV column for lexical cross-referencing. The passage follows a female speaker who rises at night to search the city streets for "him whom my soul loveth," encounters watchmen, and finally finds and holds her beloved, bringing him to her mother's house. It closes with a vivid description of Solomon's elaborately adorned palanquin — cedar wood, silver pillars, gold base, purple canopy — escorted by sixty armed warriors, and an invitation to the daughters of Zion to behold the king crowned by his mother on his wedding day. The distinctive feature of this presentation is its overtly comparative, philological purpose: readers can track precise lexical choices across Hebrew, Greek, Latin, and English simultaneously, making it most useful for biblical scholars, translators, or students studying how the text was transmitted and interpreted across traditions. It makes no original argument but implicitly highlights translation divergences — notably how the Septuagint renders the oath "by the roes and hinds" as "by the powers and forces of the field," softening the natural imagery into abstract strength.

Polyglot Bible: Song of Solomon: Song of Solomon 3

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