Bible Strands
Song of Solomon 7:4
Your neck is like a tower made of ivory; your eyes are like the pools of Heshbon by the gate of Bath-rabbim; your nose is like the tower of Lebanon, facing toward Damascus.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The speaker addresses the beloved woman, continuing a physical description that follows the comparison of her breasts to fawns and precedes the description of her head and hair.
The words — The text uses צַוָּארֵ֖ךְ (tza.va.Re/kh) for "your neck" and כְּ/מִגְדַּ֣ל (ke./mig.Dal) for "like [the] tower of" to describe a structure of strength, alongside עֵינַ֜יִךְ ('ei.Na.yi/kh) for "your eyes" and בְּרֵכ֣וֹת (be.re.Khot) for "pools" to denote stillness and reflection.
The thread — The neck-as-tower imagery appears in Song of Solomon 4:4, where it is compared to the tower of David hung with shields, while architectural metaphors for people recur in Psalms 144:12 and the broader Levantine landscape references in Song of Solomon 4:8.
Why it lands — The verse presents a catalog of physical features compared to fortified structures and water sources, asking the reader to observe the deliberate progression from strength to stillness to elevation without extracting allegorical meaning.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Thy neck is as a tower of ivory; thine eyes like the fishpools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bath–rabbim: thy nose is as the tower of Lebanon which looketh toward Damascus.
Cross-references
- Song of Solomon 4:4 Your neck is like the tower of David, built with rows of stones; on it hang a thousand shields, all of them shields of warriors.
- Psalms 144:12 Then our sons will be like plants nurtured in their youth, our daughters like corner pillars carved to adorn a palace.
- Song of Solomon 4:8 Come with me from Lebanon, my bride, come with me from Lebanon! Descend from the peak of Amana, from the summits of Senir and Hermon, from the dens of the lions, from the mountains of the leopards.
- Genesis 15:2 But Abram replied, “O Lord GOD, what can You give me, since I remain childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?”
- Numbers 21:25 Israel captured all the cities of the Amorites and occupied them, including Heshbon and all its villages.
- 2 Samuel 8:6 Then he placed garrisons in Aram of Damascus, and the Arameans became subject to David and brought him tribute. So the LORD made David victorious wherever he went.
- 1 Kings 7:2 He built the House of the Forest of Lebanon a hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high, with four rows of cedar pillars supporting the cedar beams.
- 1 Kings 9:19 as well as all the store cities that Solomon had for his chariots and horses—whatever he desired to build in Jerusalem, Lebanon, and throughout the land of his dominion.
- 1 Kings 10:18 Additionally, the king made a great throne of ivory and overlaid it with pure gold.
- 1 Kings 10:22 For the king had the ships of Tarshish at sea with Hiram’s fleet, and once every three years the ships of Tarshish would arrive bearing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.