Song of Solomon 7:2
New International Version
Your navel is a rounded goblet that never lacks blended wine. Your waist is a mound of wheat encircled by lilies.

New Living Translation
Your navel is perfectly formed like a goblet filled with mixed wine. Between your thighs lies a mound of wheat bordered with lilies.

English Standard Version
Your navel is a rounded bowl that never lacks mixed wine. Your belly is a heap of wheat, encircled with lilies.

Berean Standard Bible
Your navel is a rounded goblet; it never lacks blended wine. Your waist is a mound of wheat encircled by the lilies.

King James Bible
Thy navel is like a round goblet, which wanteth not liquor: thy belly is like an heap of wheat set about with lilies.

New King James Version
Your navel is a rounded goblet; It lacks no blended beverage. Your waist is a heap of wheat Set about with lilies.

New American Standard Bible
“Your navel is like a round goblet That never lacks mixed wine; Your belly is like a heap of wheat, Surrounded with lilies.

NASB 1995
“Your navel is like a round goblet Which never lacks mixed wine; Your belly is like a heap of wheat Fenced about with lilies.

NASB 1977
“Your navel is like a round goblet Which never lacks mixed wine; Your belly is like a heap of wheat Fenced about with lilies.

Legacy Standard Bible
Your navel is like a round basin Which never lacks mixed wine; Your belly is like a heap of wheat Encircled with lilies.

Amplified Bible
“Your navel is a round goblet Which never lacks mixed wine. Your belly is like a heap of wheat Surrounded with lilies.

Christian Standard Bible
Your navel is a rounded bowl; it never lacks mixed wine. Your belly is a mound of wheat surrounded by lilies.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Your navel is a rounded bowl; it never lacks mixed wine. Your waist is a mound of wheat surrounded by lilies.

American Standard Version
Thy body is like a round goblet, Wherein no mingled wine is wanting: Thy waist is like a heap of wheat Set about with lilies.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Your navel is a goblet that is round that lacks no mixture in it. Your belly is a heap of wheat that is enclosed in lilies

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Thy navel is as a turned bowl, not wanting liquor; thy belly is as a heap of wheat set about with lilies.

Contemporary English Version
your navel is a wine glass filled to overflowing. Your body is full and slender like a bundle of wheat bound together by lilies.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thy navel is like a round bowl never wanting cups. Thy belly is like a heap of wheat, set about with lilies.

English Revised Version
Thy navel is like a round goblet, wherein no mingled wine is wanting: thy belly is like an heap of wheat set about with lilies.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Your navel is a round bowl. May it always be filled with spiced wine. Your waist is a bundle of wheat enclosed in lilies.

Good News Translation
A bowl is there, that never runs out of spiced wine. A sheaf of wheat is there, surrounded by lilies.

International Standard Version
Your navel is a rounded goblet that never lacks mixed wine. Your abdomen is a bundle of wheat, enclosed by lilies.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Thy navel is like a round goblet, Wherein no mingled wine is wanting; Thy belly is like a heap of wheat Set about with lilies.

Literal Standard Version
Your waist [is] a basin of roundness, | It does not lack the mixture, | Your body a heap of wheat, fenced with lilies,

Majority Standard Bible
Your navel is a rounded goblet; it never lacks blended wine. Your waist is a mound of wheat encircled by the lilies.

New American Bible
Your valley, a round bowl that should never lack mixed wine. Your belly, a mound of wheat, encircled with lilies.

NET Bible
Your navel is a round mixing bowl--may it never lack mixed wine! Your belly is a mound of wheat, encircled by lilies.

New Revised Standard Version
Your navel is a rounded bowl that never lacks mixed wine. Your belly is a heap of wheat, encircled with lilies.

New Heart English Bible
Your body is like a round goblet, no mixed wine is wanting. Your waist is like a heap of wheat, set about with lilies.

Webster's Bible Translation
Thy navel is like a round goblet, which wanteth not liquor: thy belly is like a heap of wheat set about with lilies.

World English Bible
Your body is like a round goblet, no mixed wine is wanting. Your waist is like a heap of wheat, set about with lilies.

Young's Literal Translation
Thy waist is a basin of roundness, It lacketh not the mixture, Thy body a heap of wheat, fenced with lilies,

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Admiration by the Bridegroom
1How beautiful are your sandaled feet, O daughter of the prince! The curves of your thighs are like jewels, the handiwork of a master. 2Your navel is a rounded goblet; it never lacks blended wine. Your waist is a mound of wheat encircled by the lilies. 3Your breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle.…

Cross References
Song of Solomon 7:1
How beautiful are your sandaled feet, O daughter of the prince! The curves of your thighs are like jewels, the handiwork of a master.

Song of Solomon 7:3
Your breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle.


Treasury of Scripture

Your navel is like a round goblet, which wants not liquor: your belly is like an heap of wheat set about with lilies.

navel

Proverbs 3:8
It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.

liquor

Song of Solomon 5:14
His hands are as gold rings set with the beryl: his belly is as bright ivory overlaid with sapphires.

Psalm 45:16
Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children, whom thou mayest make princes in all the earth.

Isaiah 46:3
Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, which are borne by me from the belly, which are carried from the womb:

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Song of Solomon 7
1. a further description of the church's graces.
10. The church professes her faith and desire














(2) Heap of wheat set about with lilies.--Wetstein (quoted by Delitzsch in his Appendix) remarks that in Syria the colour of wheat is regarded as the most beautiful colour the human body can have; and after remarking on the custom of decorating the heaps of winnowed corn with flowers in token of the joy of harvest, says:--"The appearance of such heaps of wheat, which one may see in long parallel rows on the threshing-floors of a village, is very pleasing to a peasant; and the comparison of the Song (Song of Solomon 7:5) every Arabian will regard as beautiful."

Verse 2. - Thy navel is like a round goblet, wherein no mingled wine is wanting: thy belly is like a heap of wheat set about with lilies. It must be remembered that ladies are speaking of one who is in the ladies' apartment. There is nothing indelicate in the description, though it is scarcely Western. The "round goblet," or basin, with mixed wine, i.e. wine with water or snow mixed with it, is intended to convey the idea of the shape of the lovely body with its flesh colour appearing through the semitransparent clothing, and moving gracefully like the diluted wine in the glass goblet. The navel is referred to simply as the center of the body, which it is in infants, and nearly so in adults. Perhaps Delitzsch is right in thinking that there may be an attempt to describe the navel itself as like the whirling hollow of water in a basin. In the latter part of the verse the shape of the body is undoubtedly intended. "To the present day winnowed and sifted corn is piled up in great heaps of symmetrical, half-spherical form, which are then frequently stuck over with things that move in the wind, for the purpose of protecting them against birds. The appearance of such heaps of wheat," says Wetstein, "which one may see in long parallel rows on the threshing floors of a village, is very pleasing to a peasant; and the comparison of the song every Arabian will regard as beautiful." According to the Moslem Sunnas, the colour of wheat was that of Adam. The white is a subdued white, denoting both perfect spotlessness and the purity of health. The smooth, round, fair body of the maiden is seen to advantage in the varied movements of the dance.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Your navel
שָׁרְרֵךְ֙ (šā·rə·rêḵ)
Noun - masculine singular construct | second person feminine singular
Strong's 8326: The umbilical cord, a bodice

is a rounded
הַסַּ֔הַר (has·sa·har)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 5469: Roundness

goblet;
אַגַּ֣ן (’ag·gan)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 101: A bowl, basin

it never
אַל־ (’al-)
Adverb
Strong's 408: Not

lacks
יֶחְסַ֖ר (yeḥ·sar)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 2637: To lack, need, be lacking, decrease

blended wine.
הַמָּ֑זֶג (ham·mā·zeḡ)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4197: Tempered wine

Your waist
בִּטְנֵךְ֙ (biṭ·nêḵ)
Noun - feminine singular construct | second person feminine singular
Strong's 990: The belly, the womb, the bosom, body of anything

is a mound
עֲרֵמַ֣ת (‘ă·rê·maṯ)
Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 6194: A heap, a sheaf

of wheat
חִטִּ֔ים (ḥiṭ·ṭîm)
Noun - feminine plural
Strong's 2406: Wheat

encircled
סוּגָ֖ה (sū·ḡāh)
Verb - Qal - QalPassParticiple - feminine singular
Strong's 5473: To hem in, bind

by the lilies.
בַּשּׁוֹשַׁנִּֽים׃ (baš·šō·wō·šan·nîm)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - common plural
Strong's 7799: A lily, as a, flower of architectural ornament, a, trumpet


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