What Does Song of Solomon 7:6 Mean?
How fair and how pleasant you are, O love, in delights.
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Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.
King James wording
King James Version
How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!THE KEY
Here, beauty is more than something the beloved has: it is the delight her presence awakens.
THE MEANING
The verse addresses you as beautiful and pleasant, letting love speak in the language of delight. It holds appearance, affection, and felt pleasure together as a present experience of being cherished.
THE ROOT
תַּעֲנוּגִים
taʿanugim
GROWS FROM
ע־נ־ג
To be delicate, luxuriate, or take delight.
“in delights” in this verse is taʿanugim. The verse names the beloved in the language of exquisite pleasure. The same root also describes delighting in the LORD, showing that delight is one expression of love across both human and divine relationship.
ALSO GROWS
ʿōneg: Delight, exquisite pleasure.
עֹנֶג
Isaiah 58:13 calls the Sabbath a delight with this noun, showing that the word can name a cherished experience, not just an abstract feeling.
hitʿanneg: To take delight in, luxuriate in.
הִתְעַנֵּג
Psalm 37:4 uses this verb for delighting in the LORD, the same root-family that describes love’s delights here.
נָעַמְתְּ
naʿamt
GROWS FROM
נ־ע־ם
To be pleasant, delightful, or agreeable.
“pleasant” in this verse is naʿamt. The beloved’s pleasantness is more than a visual quality; it is the felt goodness of her presence. This root also names pleasantness in shared life, so the verse’s praise reaches beyond appearance into the experience of being together.
ALSO GROWS
noʿam: Pleasantness, beauty.
נֹעַם
Psalm 90:17 asks for the beauty or pleasantness of the LORD to rest upon the speaker, showing the root’s reach beyond physical appearance.
naʿim: Pleasant, delightful.
נָעִים
Psalm 133:1 uses this word for the goodness of people dwelling together, connecting pleasantness with the quality of a relationship.
THE PATTERN
Love is recognized through the delight it awakens, in human affection and in devotion to God.
Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth, for your love is better than wine.Let her be a loving hind, and a favored mountain goat; let her breasts drench you at all times, and always reel in her love.Whom you have not perceived, you love; in whom, though now you do not perceive him, yet leaning your weight on him, you leap with joy that cannot be spoken and is clothed in weight.THE THREAD
Soften yourself in the LORD, and he will give you the asking of your heart.The word translated “delights” here and “Delight” in Psalm 37:4 grows from ע־נ־ג (ʿ-n-g; ʿānag), the root meaning to take delight. That shared seed lets the verse’s language of pleasure resonate between human love and delight in the LORD.
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