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Song of Solomon 1:10
Your cheeks are beautiful with ornaments, your neck with strings of jewels.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The speaker addresses the beloved woman during a poetic exchange focused on physical description, immediately after comparing her to a royal mare and before promising to craft gold ornaments.
The words — נָאוּ (na.Vu) translates literally as "they are beautiful," describing the cheeks, while בַּחֲרוּזִים (ba./cha.ru.Zim) means "with strings of beads," modifying the neck.
The thread — The imagery of neck chains and jewelry appears in Ezekiel 16:11 as divine adornment and is later contrasted in 1 Peter 3:4 with the enduring value of inner character.
Why it lands — The verse records a specific praise of physical features that prompts the subsequent vow to create more ornaments, framing external beauty as a subject of deliberate human craft and attention.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Thy cheeks are comely with rows of jewels, thy neck with chains of gold.
Cross-references
- Ezekiel 16:11 I adorned you with jewelry, and I put bracelets on your wrists and a chain around your neck.
- 1 Peter 3:4 but from the inner disposition of your heart, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is precious in God’s sight.
- Genesis 24:47 Then I asked her, ‘Whose daughter are you?’ She replied, ‘The daughter of Bethuel son of Nahor, whom Milcah bore to him.’ So I put the ring on her nose and the bracelets on her wrists.
- Song of Solomon 5:13 His cheeks are like beds of spice, towers of perfume. His lips are like lilies, dripping with flowing myrrh.
- Genesis 24:22 And after the camels had finished drinking, he took out a gold ring weighing a beka, and two gold bracelets for her wrists weighing ten shekels.
- Genesis 41:42 Then Pharaoh removed the signet ring from his finger, put it on Joseph’s finger, clothed him in garments of fine linen, and placed a gold chain around his neck.
- Numbers 31:50 So we have brought to the LORD an offering of the gold articles each man acquired—armlets, bracelets, rings, earrings, and necklaces—to make atonement for ourselves before the LORD.”
- Proverbs 1:9 For they are a garland of grace on your head and a pendant around your neck.
- Song of Solomon 4:9 You have captured my heart, my sister, my bride; you have stolen my heart with one glance of your eyes, with one jewel of your neck.
- Isaiah 3:18 In that day the Lord will take away their finery: their anklets and headbands and crescents;