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Song of Solomon 2 · a question people ask

What are "the little foxes" of 2:15?

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The verse says what they do, not what they stand for: "Catch for us the foxes, the little foxes that plunder the vineyards; for our vineyards are in blossom" (2:15) (tap foxes). It is said to more than one, and it speaks as us and our; the verse doesn't say who. In blossom is one Hebrew word, semadar, the word of "The vines are in blossom" (2:13) two verses before, and the Hebrew Bible has it only in the Song. The Song doesn't explain the foxes, and these notes don't either; they don't make them a picture of anything.

The verses

“The fig tree ripens her green figs. The vines are in blossom. They give out their fragrance. Arise, my love, my beautiful one, and come away.””
Song of Solomon 2:13 · World English Bible
“Catch for us the foxes, the little foxes that plunder the vineyards; for our vineyards are in blossom.”
Song of Solomon 2:15 · World English Bible

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Song of Solomon 2: The voice of my beloved

The beloved's words in 2:10-13 open and close with the same call, "my love, my beautiful one, and come away" (2:10, 2:13). And the roes of the charge (2:7) are the same Hebrew word as the roe the beloved is likened to (2:9, 2:17).

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