What Does Song of Solomon 6:7 Mean in the King James?
As a piece of a pomegranate are thy temples within thy locks.
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 verse makes the beloved’s beauty a glimpse through covering: the hair frames what it partly hides.
THE MEANING
Your beauty appears as a pomegranate’s rich interior glimpsed behind your hair. The locks remain, yet they do not make you unseen; they shape how you are seen.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
Beauty must be fully exposed to be truly seen.
THE ROOT
מִבַּעַד
mibbaʿad
GROWS FROM
בעד
b-ʿ-d
Behind, through, or around; a spatial relation across or beyond a boundary.
The Hebrew phrase carries the sense of seeing from behind or through the locks, making the covering part of the image rather than an absence of beauty. The same spatial word can also mark what is shut in or kept within a boundary.
ALSO GROWS
beʿad: Behind, through, or around
בְּעַד
This base form makes the image a view across a covering, rather than beauty revealed without one.
baʿado: Behind him; around him
בַּעֲדוֹ
In Genesis 7:16, this form appears in the KJV phrase “the LORD shut him in,” giving the same spatial word a sense of enclosure.
THE PATTERN
A covering can limit sight while still allowing what lies behind it to be truly seen.
Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves’ eyes within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead.For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.THE THREAD
Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves’ eyes within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead.The Hebrew repeats מִבַּעַד לְצַמָּתֵךְ (mibbaʿad le-tsammatekh, “within thy locks”), using the same word for seeing from behind or through a boundary. The pomegranate image in 6:7 deepens that glimpse: beauty shows like a fruit’s vivid interior behind the hair.
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