SNG 1

Song of Solomon 1:7

WEB

Tell me, you whom my soul loves, where you graze your flock, where you rest them at noon; for why should I be as one who is veiled beside the flocks of your companions?

BSB

Tell me, O one I love, where do you pasture your sheep? Where do you rest them at midday? Why should I be like a veiled woman beside the flocks of your companions?

KJV

Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, where thou makest thy flock to rest at noon: for why should I be as one that turneth aside by the flocks of thy companions?

Hebrew interlinear

לִּ֗יliprep + suffix · pronominal · 1st · common · sing

H5046

נָגַדnâgad/naw-gad'/

v — front, manifest, announce, expose, predict, explain, praise

Derivation: a primitive root;

properly, to front, i.e. stand boldly out opposite; by implication (causatively), to manifest; figuratively, to announce (always by word of mouth to one present); specifically, to expose, predict, explain, praise

KJV: bewray, × certainly, certify, declare(-ing), denounce, expound, × fully, messenger, plainly, profess, rehearse, report, shew (forth), speak, × surely, tell, utter.

נָגַד

vb — be conspicuous

[נָגַד] 363 vb. be conspicuous

Hiph. declare, tell

Hoph. be told, announced, reported

H157

אָהַבʼâhab/aw-hab'/

v — have affection

Derivation: or אָהֵב ; a primitive root;

to have affection for (sexually or otherwise)

KJV: (be-) love(-d, -ly, -r), like, friend.

אָהֵב

vb — love

אָהֵב 216 vb. love

Qal

1. human love to human object

2. less oft. of appetite

3. love to God

4. esp. Pt.

5. of divine love

Niph. Pt. pl. lovely, loveable

Pi.

1. friends

2. lovers

H5315

נֶפֶשׁnephesh/neh'-fesh/

n-f — breathing creature, animal, vitality

Derivation: from 5314;

properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)

KJV: any, appetite, beast, body, breath, creature, × dead(-ly), desire, × (dis-) contented, × fish, ghost, greedy, he, heart(-y), (hath, × jeopardy of) life (× in jeopardy), lust, man, me, mind, mortally, one, own, person, pleasure, (her-, him-, my-, thy-) self, them (your) -selves, slay, soul, tablet, they, thing, (× she) will, × would have it.

נֶ֫פֶשׁ

n.f — soul

נֶ֫פֶשׁ 756 n.f. soul, living being, life, self, person, desire, appetite, emotion, and passion

1. = that which breathes, the breathing substance or being

2. The נפשׁ becomes a living being

3. The נפשׁ is specif.

4. The נפשׁ as the essential of man stands for the man himself

5. נפשׁ = seat of the appetites, in all periods (46 t.)

6. נ׳ = seat of emotions and passions

7. נפשׁ is used occasionally for mental acts

8. נפשׁ for acts of the will is dub.

9. נפשׁ = character is still more dub.

10. נ׳ in D

H349

אֵיךְʼêyk/ake/

adv — how?, how!, where

Derivation: also אֵיכָה ; and אֵיכָכָה ; prolonged from 335;

how? or how!; also where

KJV: how, what.

אֵיךְ

adv — how?

אֵיךְ 69 adv.

1. interrog. How?

2. as an exclam. How!

אֵיכָה

adv — how?

אֵיכָה adv.

1. interrog. In what manner?

2. exclam. How!

3. Where?

אֵיכָ֫כָה

How?

אֵיכָ֫כָה (Ct) אֵֽיכָכָ֫ה (Est) How?

H7462

רָעָהrâʻâh/raw-aw'/

v — tend, pasture, graze, rule, associate

Derivation: a primitive root;

to tend a flock; i.e. pasture it; intransitively, to graze (literally or figuratively); generally to rule; by extension, to associate with (as a friend)

KJV: × break, companion, keep company with, devour, eat up, evil entreat, feed, use as a friend, make friendship with, herdman, keep (sheep) (-er), pastor, shearing house, shepherd, wander, waste.

בֵּית־עֵ֫קֶד הָרֹעִים

n.pr.loc — shearing house

בֵּית־עֵ֫קֶד הָרֹעִים perh. n.pr.loc. (binding-house of the shepherds) 2 K 10:12

רָעָה

vb. denom — be a special friend

[רָעָה] vb. denom. Pi. be a special friend;—Ju 14:20

רָעָה

vb — associate with

[רָעָה] vb. prob. associate with

Qal cherish faithfulness

Hithp. do not make companionship with a bad-tempered man

רָעָה

vb — pasture

רָעָה 167 vb. pasture, tend, graze

Qal

1. trans.

2. intrans.

Niph. poss.

Hiph. v.

H7257

רָבַץrâbats/raw-bats'/

v — crouch, recline, repose, brood, lurk, imbed

Derivation: a primitive root;

to crouch (on all four legs folded, like a recumbent animal); by implication, to recline, repose, brood, lurk, imbed

KJV: crouch (down), fall down, make a fold, lay, (cause to, make to) lie (down), make to rest, sit.

רָבַץ

vb — stretch oneself out

רָבַץ vb. stretch oneself out, lie down, lie stretched out

Qal lie down, lie

Hiph. cause to lie down, or lie

H6672

צֹהַרtsôhar/tso'-har/

n-m — light, window, double light, noon

Derivation: from 6671;

a light (i.e. window); dual double light, i.e. noon

KJV: midday, noon(-day, -tide), window.

צֹ֫הַר

n.[m.] — midday

[צֹ֫הַר] n.[m.] only pl., midday, noon

צֹ֫הַר

n.f — roof

צֹ֫הַר n.f. prob. roof;—Gn 6:16.

H4100

מָהmâh/maw/

i — what?, how?, why?, when?, what!, how!, what, whatever, that which

Derivation: or מַה; or מָ; or מַ; also מֶה; a primitive particle;

properly, interrogative what? (including how? why? when?); but also exclamation, what! (including how!), or indefinitely what (including whatever, and even relatively, that which); often used with prefixes in various adverbial or conjunctive senses

KJV: how (long, oft, (-soever)), (no-) thing, what (end, good, purpose, thing), whereby(-fore, -in, -to, -with), (for) why.

מָה

pron.interrog — what?

מָה, rarely מָה־, מַה־, מַה‍ּ, מֶה, מַ‍ּ, מָpron.interrog. and indef. what? how? aught

1. interrog. what?

2. Used adverbially

3. Indef. pron.

4. With preps.

H1961

הָיָהhâyâh/haw-yaw/

v — exist, be, become, come to pass

Derivation: a primitive root (compare 1933);

to exist, i.e. be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)

KJV: beacon, × altogether, be(-come), accomplished, committed, like), break, cause, come (to pass), do, faint, fall, follow, happen, × have, last, pertain, quit (one-) self, require, × use.

הָיָה

vb — fall out

הָיָה 3570 vb. fall out, come to pass, become, be

Qal

I.

1.

a. Fall out, happen

b. occur, take place, come about, come to pass

2. esp. & very oft., come about, come to pass

a.

(1). וַיְהִי and it came to pass that, most often (c. 292 t.)

(2). rarely also Pf. c. וְ conj. וְהָיָה

b. less oft. וְהָיָה Pf. consec. and it shall come to pass, or frequentat. came to pass (repeatedly, etc.)

II. Come into being, become

1.

a. abs., in lively narrative, arise, appear, come

b. sq. prep.

2. become

a. sq. pred. noun (to be viewed as implicit accus.)

b. sq. pred. adj.

c. become like

d. sq. pred. לְ pers.

e. sq. לְ pred.

f. oft. c. לְ pred. לְ pers.

g. with עַל and לְ

h. sts. c. לְ pers. only = became the property of, come into the possession of

III. Be (often with subbordinate idea of becoming)

1. exist, be in existence

2. abide, remain, continue

3. with word of locality, be in or at a place, be situated, stand, lie

4. as copula, joining subj. & pred.

5. periphrastic conjug.

Niph.

1. either be done, be brought about, or occur, come to pass

2. be done, finished, gone

H5844

עָטָהʻâṭâh/aw-taw'/

v — wrap, cover, veil, clothe, roll

Derivation: a primitive root;

to wrap, i.e. cover, veil, clothe, or roll

KJV: array self, be clad, (put a) cover (-ing, self), fill, put on, × surely, turn aside.

עָטָה

vb — grasp

[עָטָה] vb. grasp;—Qal Is 22:17

עָטָה

vb — wrap oneself

עָטָה vb. wrap oneself, enwrap, envelop oneself

Qal

1. wrap, envelop oneself with sthg.

Hiph. thou hast wrapped shame upon him

H5921

עַלʻal/al/

prep — above, over, upon, against

Derivation: properly, the same as 5920 used as a preposition (in the singular or plural often with prefix, or as conjunction with a particle following);

above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications

KJV: above, according to(-ly), after, (as) against, among, and, × as, at, because of, beside (the rest of), between, beyond the time, × both and, by (reason of), × had the charge of, concerning for, in (that), (forth, out) of, (from) (off), (up-) on, over, than, through(-out), to, touching, × with.

כִּי עַל כֵּן

forasmuch as

כִּי עַל כֵּן forasmuch as

עַל

subst — above

עַל, עָ֑ל

I. subst. height

II. As prep. upon, and hence on the ground of, according to, on account of, on behalf of, concerning, beside, in addition to, together with, beyond, above, over, by, on to, towards, to, against

1. Upon, of the substratum upon which an object in any way rests, or on which an action is performed

a.

(a). of clothing, etc., which any one wears

(b). With verbs of covering or protecting, even though the cover or veil be not over or above the thing covered, but around or before it

b. Of what rests heavily upon a person, or is a burden to him

c. Of a duty, payment, care, etc., imposed upon a person, or devolving on him

d. על is used idiom. to give pathos to the expression of an emotion, by emphasizing the person who is its subject, and who, as it were, feels it acting upon him

e. חָיָה עַל to live upon (as upon a foundation or support)

f. Of the ground or basis, on which a thing is done

2. It expresses excess

3. It denotes elevation or pre-eminence

4. It expresses addition

5. It expresses the idea of being extended, or suspended over anything, without however being in contact with it, above, over

6. From the sense of inclining or impending over, על comes to denote contiguity or proximity, Engl. by (or sts. on)

7. In connection with verbs of motion (actual or fig.)

8. By writers of the silver age, על is sts. used with the force of a dative

9. With other particles:

III. As conj.

a. עַל אֲשֶׁר because that

b. עַל כִּי similar in meaning, but less frequent

c. עַל alone:

(a). because

(b). notwithstanding that, although

IV. Compounds:

1. with כְּ (rare and late)

a. as concerning, as upon

b. the like of their deeds is the like of (that which) he will repay

2. מֵעַל from upon, from over, from by

H5739

עֵדֶרʻêder/ay'-der/

n-m — arrangement, muster

Derivation: from 5737;

an arrangement, i.e. muster (of animals)

KJV: drove, flock, herd.

עֵ֫דֶר

n.m — flock

עֵ֫דֶר n.m. flock, herd

H2270

חָבֵרchâbêr/khaw-bare'/

n-m — associate

Derivation: from 2266;

an associate

KJV: companion, fellow, knit together.

חָבֵר

adj — united

חָבֵר adj. and n.m. united, associate, companion

1. adj. united

2. n. associate, fellow

3. companion at a particular time

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