Study it in the app“Many waters cannot quench love, nor can rivers flood it; if a man gave all the wealth of his house for love, with contempt they would despise him.”
Love is strong as death, and many waters cannot quench itLoveLove as strong as death: many waters cannot quench itDating and Marriage
Manyרַבִּיםwatersמַיִםcannotלֹא יוּכְלוּquenchלְכַבּוֹתlove,אֶת הָאַהֲבָהnor can riversוּנְהָרוֹת לֹאflood it;יִשְׁטְפוּהָifאִםa manאִישׁgaveיִתֵּןallאֶת כָּלthe wealthהוֹןof his houseבֵּיתוֹfor love,בָּאַהֲבָהwith contemptבּוֹזthey would despiseיָבוּזוּhim.לוֹ
many
A great number of people or things.
Where else “rabim” appearswater
Water: for drinking, of rivers or seas.
Where else “mayim” appearsbe able
To have the strength, the permission or the opportunity to do something.
Where else “yuchlu” appearsgo out, quench
Go out (of fire or a lamp); put out, quench.
Where else “chabot” appearslove
Love: the affection that joins one person to another; also the love of YHWH for his people.
Where else “ahava” appearsriver
River, stream; above all the Euphrates ("the River") or the Nile.
Where else “neharot” appearsoverflow
To burst its banks and carry everything off.
Where else “yishtfu” appearsman
An adult male person; also each man of a people, a trade or a place.
Where else “ish” appearsgive
To hand something over to someone: a gift, a payment, a charge or a land.
Where else “yiten” appearswealth
What someone owns in money, land and livestock; his fortune.
Where else “hon” appearshouse
A building to live in, or an enclosed place to keep something or someone.
Where else “bet” appearsdespise
To despise, to think little of; to treat something or someone as worthless.
Where else “boz” appears6Set me as a seal on your heart, as a seal on your arm, for strong as death is love, hard as Sheol is jealousy; its flames are flames of fire, a flame of Yah.
7 · This verse (above)
8We have a little sister, and she has no breasts; what shall we do for our sister on the day when one speaks of her?
