KJV King James Version
Thy navel [is like] a round goblet, [which] wanteth not liquor: thy belly [is like] an heap of wheat set about with lilies.
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Song of Solomon 7:2
Thy navel [is like] a round goblet, [which] wanteth not liquor: thy belly [is like] an heap of wheat set about with lilies.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Your navel is a rounded goblet; it never lacks blended wine. Your waist is a mound of wheat encircled by the lilies.
WEB World English Bible
Your body is like a round goblet, no mixed wine is wanting. Your waist is like a heap of wheat, set about with lilies.
ASV American Standard Version
Thy body is like a round goblet, Wherein no mingled wine is wanting: Thy waist is like a heap of wheat Set about with lilies.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Thy waist is a basin of roundness, It lacketh not the mixture, Thy body a heap of wheat, fenced with lilies,
Surrounding context — Song of Solomon 7
1 How beautiful are thy feet with shoes, O prince’s daughter! the joints of thy thighs [are] like jewels, the work of the hands of a cunning workman.
2 Thy navel [is like] a round goblet, [which] wanteth not liquor: thy belly [is like] an heap of wheat set about with lilies.
3 Thy two breasts [are] like two young roes [that are] twins.
4 Thy neck [is] as a tower of ivory; thine eyes [like] the fishpools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bathrabbim: thy nose [is] as the tower of Lebanon which looketh toward Damascus.
5 Thine head upon thee [is] like Carmel, and the hair of thine head like purple; the king [is] held in the galleries.
Original-language word links
These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
שָׁרְרֵךְ֙H8326 · sho.rernavelאַגַּ֣ןH101 · ag.ganvesselהַסַּ֔הַרH5469 · sa.harroundnessאַל־H408 · alnotיֶחְסַ֖רH2637 · cha.serto lackהַמָּ֑זֶגH4197 · me.zegmixtureבִּטְנֵךְ֙H990 · be.tenbelly: abdomenעֲרֵמַ֣תH6194 · a.re.mahheapחִטִּ֔יםH2406 · chit.tahwheatסוּגָ֖הH5473 · sugto fenceבַּשּׁוֹשַׁנִּֽים׃H7799 · shu.shanlily
Cross-references
Isaiah 46:3Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, which are borne [by me] from the belly, which are carried from the womb:Psalm 45:16Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children, whom thou mayest make princes in all the earth.Jeremiah 1:5Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, [and] I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.Song of Solomon 5:14His hands [are as] gold rings set with the beryl: his belly [is as] bright ivory overlaid [with] sapphires.Romans 7:4Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, [even] to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.Proverbs 3:8It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.
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