What Does Song of Solomon 4:7 Mean in the King James?

Thou art all fair, my love; there is no spot in thee.

Song of Solomon 4:7 · KJV

The analysis reads the King James wording.

King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.

THE KEY

The Hebrew makes beauty total: the beloved is not praised for one feature, because all of her is called fair.

THE MEANING

You are addressed as wholly beautiful, beloved, with no blemish in you. The praise reaches the whole person rather than selecting one trait.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

The belief that one flaw can define the whole beloved loses its hold here: the line sees her as wholly fair.

THE ROOT

יָפָה

yāfāh

GROWS FROM

יפה

y-p-h

To be beautiful or fair.

“fair” in this verse is yāfāh. The phrase ⁨כֻּלָּךְ⁩ (kullakh, “all of you”) places ⁨יָפָה⁩ (yaphah, “beautiful”) over the beloved’s entirety. The same root gives ⁨יֹפִי⁩ (yofi, “beauty”), so the verse names beauty as a quality of the whole person, not a single feature.

ALSO GROWS

yofi: Beauty.

יֹפִי

This noun grows from the same root as “fair,” connecting the beloved’s being fair with beauty itself.

yafeh: Beautiful, fair.

יָפֶה

This related adjective shares the verse’s root and shows that the praise rests on the Hebrew word for beauty.

THE PATTERN

The gaze of love names its beloved as whole, leaving no blemish to define the person.

Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves’ eyes.

Song of Solomon 1:15 · KJVThe beloved is praised as fair again, with the same root extending that loving attention to her eyes.

That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.

Ephesians 5:27 · KJVThe one being presented is described as having no spot or blemish.

Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,

Jude 1:24 · KJVThe verse pictures you presented faultless, held in a gaze that does not define you by a defect.

THE THREAD

Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves’ eyes.

Song of Solomon 1:15 · KJV

The word translated “fair” comes from the same Hebrew root in both verses. Here the praise covers the beloved entirely; in Song 1:15, that same word turns toward her eyes.

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