KJV King James Version
Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love [is] strong as death; jealousy [is] cruel as the grave: the coals thereof [are] coals of fire, [which hath] a most vehement flame.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Song of Solomon 8:6
Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love [is] strong as death; jealousy [is] cruel as the grave: the coals thereof [are] coals of fire, [which hath] a most vehement flame.
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
Set me as a seal over your heart, as a seal upon your arm. For love is as strong as death, its jealousy as unrelenting as Sheol. Its sparks are fiery flames, the fiercest blaze of all.
WEB World English Bible
Set me as a seal on your heart, as a seal on your arm; for love is strong as death. Jealousy is as cruel as Sheol. Its flashes are flashes of fire, a very flame of Yahweh.
ASV American Standard Version
Set me as a seal upon thy heart, As a seal upon thine arm: For love is strong as death; Jealousy is cruel as Sheol; The flashes thereof are flashes of fire, A very flame of Jehovah.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Set me as a seal on thy heart, as a seal on thine arm, For strong as death is love, Sharp as Sheol is jealousy, Its burnings are burnings of fire, a flame of Jah!
Surrounding context — Song of Solomon 8
3 His left hand [should be] under my head, and his right hand should embrace me.
4 I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up, nor awake [my] love, until he please.
5 Who [is] this that cometh up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? I raised thee up under the apple tree: there thy mother brought thee forth: there she brought thee forth [that] bare thee.
6 Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love [is] strong as death; jealousy [is] cruel as the grave: the coals thereof [are] coals of fire, [which hath] a most vehement flame.
7 Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.
8 We have a little sister, and she hath no breasts: what shall we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for?
9 If she [be] a wall, we will build upon her a palace of silver: and if she [be] a door, we will inclose her with boards of cedar.
Original-language word links
These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
שִׂימֵ֨נִיH7760 · sumto set: makeכַֽחוֹתָ֜םH2368 · cho.tamsignetעַל־H5921 · aluponלִבֶּ֗ךָH3820 · levheartכַּֽחוֹתָם֙H2368 · cho.tamsignetעַל־H5921 · aluponזְרוֹעֶ֔ךָH2220 · ze.ro.aarmכִּֽי־H3588 · kiforעַזָּ֤הH5794 · azstrongכַמָּ֙וֶת֙H4194 · ma.vetdeathאַהֲבָ֔הH160 · a.ha.vahloveקָשָׁ֥הH7186 · qa.shehsevereכִשְׁא֖וֹלH7585 · she.olhell: Sheolקִנְאָ֑הH7068 · qin.ahjealousyרְשָׁפֶ֕יהָH7565 · re.shephflashרִשְׁפֵּ֕יH7565 · re.shephflashאֵ֖שׁH784 · eshfireשַׁלְהֶ֥בֶתְיָֽה׃H7957 · shal.he.vetflame
Cross-references
Revelation 12:11And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.Philippians 1:20-23According to my earnest expectation and [my] hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but [that] with all boldness, as always, [so] now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether [it be] by life, or by death.Isaiah 49:16Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of [my] hands; thy walls [are] continually before me.John 21:15-19So when they had dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, Simon, [son] of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my lambs.Proverbs 6:34For jealousy [is] the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.Haggai 2:23In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, will I take thee, O Zerubbabel, my servant, the son of Shealtiel, saith the LORD, and will make thee as a signet: for I have chosen thee, saith the LORD of hosts.Jeremiah 22:24[As] I live, saith the LORD, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet upon my right hand, yet would I pluck thee thence;Song of Solomon 5:8I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I [am] sick of love.Numbers 5:14And the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be defiled: or if the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be not defiled:Psalm 84:2My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.2 Corinthians 5:14-15For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:Deuteronomy 32:21They have moved me to jealousy with [that which is] not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with [those which are] not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.Psalm 120:4Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.Acts 21:13Then Paul answered, What mean ye to weep and to break mine heart? for I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.Psalm 42:1-2To the chief Musician, Maschil, for the sons of Korah. As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.Exodus 28:9-12And thou shalt take two onyx stones, and grave on them the names of the children of Israel:Numbers 25:11Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, hath turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, while he was zealous for my sake among them, that I consumed not the children of Israel in my jealousy.Zechariah 3:9For behold the stone that I have laid before Joshua; upon one stone [shall be] seven eyes: behold, I will engrave the graving thereof, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day.
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