Song of Songs 7:3

Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins.
Song of Songs 7:3 · King James Version

Parallel translations

WEB Your two breasts are like two fawns, that are twins of a roe.
BSB Your breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle.
NKJV Your two breasts are like two fawns, Twins of a gazelle.
NASB “Your two breasts are like two fawns, Twins of a gazelle.
NLT Your breasts are like two fawns, twin fawns of a gazelle.

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Quick answer

Her breasts are likened to twin fawns, as in earlier praise, conveying gentle, graceful beauty. The beloved delights tenderly in his bride.

Overview

Repeating the image of 4:5, the beloved describes her with the gentleness and symmetry of young gazelles. The renewed praise shows love that returns again and again to cherish its object. In the marriage God ordains, such delight is pure and good, an expression of the one-flesh union he blesses (Genesis 2:24).

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 2

Song 4:5Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins, which feed among the lilies.
Song 6:6Thy teeth are as a flock of sheep which go up from the washing, whereof every one beareth twins, and there is not one barren among them.

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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 7:3 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 twoשְׁנַיִם breastsשַׁד are like twoשְׁנַיִם youngעֹפֶר roesצְבִיָּה that are twinsתָּאוֹם

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