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Song of Solomon 7 Bible study: His desire is toward me
The saying of 2:16 and 6:3 comes a third time in 7:10, and this time it goes on, "His desire is toward me". That word, teshuqah, is in the Hebrew Bible only there and in Genesis 3:16 and 4:7. And the call to come, said to a woman in 2:10 and 2:13, is said to a man in 7:11: "Come, my beloved!"
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“I am my beloved’s. His desire is toward me.”
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“In Song of Solomon 7:10, "I am my beloved’s" is followed by "His desire is toward me".”
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What's really going on
"How beautiful"
The chapter opens, "How beautiful are your feet in sandals, prince’s daughter!" (7:1). In Hebrew every your in 7:1-9 is said to a woman, and these verses tell her how beautiful she is, part by part, as 4:1-7 did. The praise begins with her feet (7:1) and has reached her head by 7:5, and then comes "How beautiful and how pleasant you are, love, for delights!" (7:6). Its likenesses name places: "the pools in Heshbon" (7:4), "the tower of Lebanon which looks toward Damascus" (7:4), and "Carmel" (7:5). The chapter doesn't say why any of them is named, and these notes quote the likenesses as the WEB has them and explain none of them beyond what the lexicons say.
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The Hebrew word behind it
תְּשׁוּקָהteshuqahsay te-shoo-KAH
Brown-Driver-Briggs: "longing". Strong's: "a longing desire". "I am my beloved’s. His desire is toward me" (7:10). The Hebrew Bible has the word only three times: "Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you" (Genesis 3:16), "Its desire is for you, but you are to rule over it" (Genesis 4:7), and here. Genesis 3's word study sets the three side by side, and its honest question gives the main ways Christians read Genesis 3:16. This chapter doesn't answer that question (see the honest question below).
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Song of Solomon 7 Bible study questions
- 1"My beloved is mine, and I am his" (2:16); "I am my beloved’s, and my beloved is mine" (6:3); "I am my beloved’s. His desire is toward me" (7:10). What do you notice as the saying comes back each time?
- 2"Behold, you are beautiful, my beloved, yes, pleasant" (1:16) is said to a man, and "How beautiful and how pleasant you are" (7:6) to a woman. What do you notice when the Song gives the same praise both ways?
- 3The chapter ends, "At our doors are all kinds of precious fruits, new and old, which I have stored up for you, my beloved" (7:13). What does this close show you about how the Song speaks of love?
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