What Does Song of Solomon 7:7 Mean?
Your standing is like a palm, and your breasts like clusters of grapes.
Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.
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
This thy stature is like to a palm tree, and thy breasts to clusters of grapes.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.
Your two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle, that graze among the lilies.As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. In his shade I have craved and sat down, and his fruit is sweet to my palate.The aligned one blooms like the palm tree; he grows tall like the cedar in Lebanon.THE THREAD
The aligned one blooms like the palm tree; he grows tall like the 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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