Study it in the app“Look, you are beautiful, my companion; look, you are beautiful; your eyes are doves behind your veil; your hair is like a flock of goats that ripple down from Mount Gilead.”
Look,הִנָּyou areךְbeautiful,יָפָהmy companion;רַעְיָתִיlook,הִנָּyou areךְbeautiful;יָפָהyour eyesעֵינַיִךְare dovesיוֹנִיםbehindמִבַּעַדyour veil;לְצַמָּתֵךְyour hairשַׂעְרֵךְis like a flockכְּעֵדֶרof goatsהָעִזִּיםthat ripple downשֶׁגָּלְשׁוּfrom MountמֵהַרGilead.גִּלְעָד
beautiful
Beautiful, handsome, of fine appearance.
Where else “yafa” appearscompanion
Companion, a woman who is close; the beloved calls his beloved this in the Song of Songs.
Where else “rayati” appearseye
The organ with which one sees; so "lift the eyes" means to look.
Where else “enayi” appearsdove
A gentle bird that flies out and returns to the place it came from.
Where else “yonim” appearsveil
A veil.
Where else “tsamate” appearshair
Hair, body hair.
Where else “sare” appearsherd, flock
Herd, flock, drove.
Where else “eder” appearsgoat
The female of the goat flock, used for milk and hair.
Where else “izim” appearsstream down
To come streaming down (like goats down a slope).
Where else “galshu” appearsmountain
A great rise of land, like Sinai or Zion.
Where else “har” appearsGilead
See it on the mapWhere else “gilad” appearsGilead
Today: northern Jordan, east of the Jordan River
A hill region east of the Jordan River, in present-day Jordan.
Reuben, Gad and half of Manasseh settled there (Num 32:1, 33). Jephthah was from Gilead (Judg 11:1). Jeremiah spoke of its balm (Jer 8:22).
1 · This verse (above)
2Your teeth are like a flock of shorn ewes that have come up from the washing, all of which bear twins, and none is barren among them.
