Song of Solomon 2:9
Old Testament • 16 words with Strong's data
"My beloved is like a roe or a young hart: behold, he standeth behind our wall, he looketh forth at the windows, shewing himself through the lattice."
Word-by-Word Analysis
דּוֹד
dôwd
(figuratively) to love; by implication, a love-token, lover, friend; specifically an uncle
דָּמָה
dâmâh
to compare; by implication, to resemble, liken, consider
צְבִי
tsᵉbîy
splendor (as conspicuous); also a gazelle (as beautiful)
בֵּן
bên
a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or ...
רָאָה
râʼâh
to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative)
עָמַד
ʻâmad
to stand, in various relations (literal and figurative, intransitive and transitive)
אַחַר
ʼachar
properly, the hind part; generally used as an adverb or conjunction, after (in various senses)
פָּנָה
pânâh
to turn; by implication, to face, i.e. appear, look, etc.
יָצָא
yâtsâʼ
to go (causatively, bring) out, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proxim.
עָשָׂה
ʻâsâh
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application
נֶפֶשׁ
nephesh
properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or menta...
עָבַר
ʻâbar
to cross over; used very widely of any transition (literal or figurative; transitive, intransitive, intensive, causative); specifically, to cover (in ...
אֲרֻבָּה
ʼărubbâh
a lattice; (by implication) a window, dovecot (because of the pigeon-holes), chimney (with its apertures for smoke), sluice (with openings for water)
Key Terms in This Verse
אֲרֻבָּה ʼărubbâh
a lattice; (by implication) a window, dovecot (because of the pigeon-holes), chimney (with its apertures for smoke), sluice (with openings for water)
Study H699 →עָשָׂה ʻâsâh
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application
Study H6213 →עָמַד ʻâmad
to stand, in various relations (literal and figurative, intransitive and transitive)
Study H5975 →אַחַר ʼachar
properly, the hind part; generally used as an adverb or conjunction, after (in various senses)
Study H310 →דּוֹד dôwd
(figuratively) to love; by implication, a love-token, lover, friend; specifically an uncle
Study H1730 →Cross References
Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.
Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be thou like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains of Bether.
For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he wrote of me.
These things said Esaias, when he saw his glory, and spake of him.
For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.
And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See thou do it not: I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is...
For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
And they told what things were done in the way, and how he was known of them in breaking of bread.
Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.
Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.
And there were three sons of Zeruiah there, Joab, and Abishai, and Asahel: and Asahel was as light of foot as a wild roe.
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