What Does Song of Solomon 7:7 Mean in the King James?
This thy stature is like to a palm tree, and thy breasts to clusters of grapes.
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 body is imagined as living abundance: upright like a palm and full like a cluster of grapes.
THE MEANING
Your stature rises like a palm, and your breasts are pictured as full grape clusters. Desire names your body through images of growth, ripeness, and fullness.
THE ROOT
תָּמָר
tamar
GROWS FROM
תמר
t-m-r
Palm or date palm; commonly associated with an underlying sense of being upright or erect.
“palm tree” in this verse is tamar. The palm’s name is traditionally linked with uprightness, so its comparison to the beloved’s stature carries the sense of a body rising. The grape clusters add ripeness and fullness to that image.
ALSO GROWS
tomer: Palm trunk.
תֹּמֶר
The related word keeps the image of the tree’s upright form.
Tamar: Palm tree; also a personal name.
תָּמָר
The tree’s name carried as a person’s name lets the palm’s nature live within the name.
THE PATTERN
Desire and flourishing are pictured through living growth and fruitfulness.
Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins, which feed among the lilies.As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.THE THREAD
The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.Both verses use תָּמָר (tamar, palm tree). Here the palm gives shape to the beloved’s stature; in the psalm, it pictures flourishing. The shared image joins bodily beauty with upright growth.
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