Polyglot Bible: Song of Solomon: Song of Solomon 6

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This is a parallel-text scholarly edition of Song of Songs (Song of Solomon) chapter 6, presenting four versions side by side: the King James Version with Strong's Concordance numbers, the Greek Septuagint (LXX), the Hebrew Masoretic Text, and the Latin Vulgate. The chapter is part of the ancient Hebrew love poetry tradition, and this section depicts the beloved woman responding to questions about her lover's whereabouts, declaring mutual possession ("I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine"), and receiving extended praise for her beauty. The imagery is sensory and agricultural — the lover tends gardens of spices and gathers lilies, while the woman is compared to Tirzah, Jerusalem, the moon, the sun, and a bannered army, with her physical features likened to flocks of goats, washed sheep, and pomegranate halves. A notably distinctive moment comes at verse 12 (Hebrew), where the speaker's soul unexpectedly places her among royal chariots — a sudden, cryptic intrusion that disrupts the poem's otherwise controlled imagery and has generated substantial interpretive debate. The four-column format, with the KJV numerically keyed to Strong's lexicon, signals this as a reference or study text aimed at readers doing comparative linguistic or exegetical work rather than literary reading.

Polyglot Bible: Song of Solomon: Song of Solomon 6

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