Bible Strands
Song of Solomon 7:2
Your navel is a rounded goblet; it never lacks blended wine. Your waist is a mound of wheat encircled by the lilies.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The male speaker addresses the female beloved during a sequential physical appraisal, moving from her feet and thighs to her midsection.
The words — The text uses שׁררֵךְ (sha.re.re) to denote the navel and עֲרֵמַת ('a.re.Mat) to describe the waist as a heap or mound.
The thread — This imagery of physical fullness parallels the bodily blessing in Proverbs 3:8 and the royal lineage promise in Psalms 45:16, while continuing the detailed bodily praise found in Song of Solomon 5:14.
Why it lands — The passage demands recognition of the beloved’s unadorned physical abundance, requiring the reader to accept the literal description of her form before considering any secondary meaning.
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The Hebrew words
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.
Cross-references
- Psalms 45:16 Your sons will succeed your fathers; you will make them princes throughout the land.
- Proverbs 3:8 This will bring healing to your body and refreshment to your bones.
- Song of Solomon 5:14 His arms are rods of gold set with beryl. His body is polished ivory bedecked with sapphires.
- Isaiah 46:3 “Listen to Me, O house of Jacob, all the remnant of the house of Israel, who have been sustained from the womb, carried along since birth.
- Jeremiah 1:5 “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I set you apart and appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”
- Romans 7:4 Therefore, my brothers, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit to God.