What Does Song of Solomon 7:2 Mean in the King James?
Thy navel is like a round goblet, which wanteth not liquor: thy belly is like an heap of wheat set about with lilies.
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 beloved’s center becomes a full vessel and her belly a harvest ringed with flowers: desire sees the body as abundance.
THE MEANING
The verse speaks of the beloved’s body as both intimate and abundant: a vessel that lacks no drink and a belly like a harvest enclosed in flowers. Sensual desire meets nourishment and beauty here; the body is named as a source of pleasure and praise.
THE ROOT
בִּטְנֵךְ
bitnekh
GROWS FROM
בטן
Belly or inner abdomen; the same noun can also mean womb.
English “belly” can sound like surface anatomy, but the Hebrew noun can also name the womb. That wider sense lets the harvest image carry a resonance of hidden, generative fullness.
ALSO GROWS
beten: Belly or abdomen, as in this verse.
בֶּטֶן
The beloved’s body is praised through its intimate center, not only its outward shape.
beten: Womb; Genesis 25:23 uses the same noun in “two nations are in thy womb.”
בֶּטֶן
The shared word brings the inner, life-carrying body into the image of a harvest without making the verse a literal pregnancy reference.
אַגָּן
agan
GROWS FROM
אגן
A basin or bowl, a vessel that holds what is poured into it.
“goblet” in this verse is agan. The Hebrew vessel-word emphasizes capacity as well as shape. Paired with the phrase about lacking no drink, it makes fullness central to the image.
ALSO GROWS
agan: A bowl or basin, as in this verse.
אַגָּן
The navel is pictured as a receptacle, so the metaphor emphasizes what the vessel holds.
agganot: Basins, the plural form of the same noun; Exodus 24:6.
אֲגָנֹת
The same vessel-word names containers, reinforcing the image of a body’s center as a place of fullness.
THE PATTERN
Scripture treats embodied intimacy as a place of delight and mutual giving.
Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins, which feed among the lilies.Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.THE THREAD
Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins, which feed among the lilies.Both verses use the Hebrew word for lilies, making the flowers a recurring image in the poem’s praise of the beloved’s body. In each, the lilies gather sensual beauty and nourishment into the same picture.
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