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Song of Songs 4:2

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Your teeth are like a flock of newly shorn sheep coming up from the washing; each has its twin, and not one of them is lost.
Song of Songs 4:2 · Berean Standard Bible
Parallel translations
  • WEB Your teeth are like a newly shorn flock, which have come up from the washing, where every one of them has twins. None is bereaved among them.
  • KJV Thy teeth are like a flock of sheep that are even shorn, which came up from the washing; whereof every one bear twins, and none is barren among them.
  • NKJV Your teeth are like a flock of shorn sheep Which have come up from the washing, Every one of which bears twins, And none is barren among them.
  • NASB “Your teeth are like a flock of newly shorn sheep Which have come up from their watering place, All of which bear twins, And not one among them has lost her young.
  • NLT Your teeth are as white as sheep, recently shorn and freshly washed. Your smile is flawless, each tooth matched with its twin.

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Quick answer

He compares her white, even teeth to a freshly washed flock. It praises her health and flawless beauty.

Overview

Her teeth are like newly shorn, washed ewes, each matched and none missing, a picture of wholeness and beauty. The imagery, drawn from pastoral life, conveys purity and perfection. The praise of her unblemished beauty anticipates the bride made spotless, presented faultless before her Lord (Eph. 5:27).

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 8

  • Song 6:6Your teeth are like a flock of sheep coming up from the washing; each has its twin, and not one of them is lost.
  • Col 1:4–6because we have heard about your faith in Christ Jesus and your love for all the saints—
  • Jer 15:16Your words were found, and I ate them. Your words became my joy and my heart’s delight. For I bear Your name, O LORD God of Hosts.
  • John 15:7If you remain in Me and My words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.
  • 2 Pet 1:5–8For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith virtue; and to virtue, knowledge;
  • 1 Th 2:13And we continually thank God because, when you received the word of God that you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men, but as the true word of God—the word which is now at work in you who believe.
  • Deut 7:13–14He will love you and bless you and multiply you. He will bless the fruit of your womb and the produce of your land—your grain, new wine, and oil, the young of your herds and the lambs of your flocks—in the land that He swore to your fathers to give you.
  • Exod 23:26No woman in your land will miscarry or be barren; I will fulfill the number of your days.

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Christ at the center

The poetry of covenant love between bride and bridegroom pictures, at its highest, the love of Christ for his church — the Bridegroom who gave himself for his bride.

How Song of Songs 4:2 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

Original language

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Thy teethשֵׁןare like a flockעֵדֶרof sheep that are even shornקָצַבwhich came upעָלָהfrom the washingרַחְצָהwhereof every one bear twinsתָּאַםand none is barrenשַׁכּוּל
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