The Chosen Key Word in this Chapter is “Hair” it comes from the Hebrew Word “sear” which means “hair.”
The beloved offers an extended, admiring description of his bride from head to foot. Welcome to Bible Life Basics Chapter Reviews, I am Chris and this is Song of Solomon 7.
The beloved praises the bride extensively, her feet beautiful with shoes, the joints of her thighs like jewels, her navel like a round goblet, her belly like a heap of wheat set about with lilies, her two breasts like two young roes that are twins, her neck like a tower of ivory, her eyes like the fishpools in Heshbon, her nose like the tower of Lebanon.
The beloved compares her head to Carmel, and the “hair,” “sear” in Hebrew, of her head like purple, the king being held captive by its tresses, describing how fair and pleasant she is for delights, her stature being like a palm tree, and her breasts like clusters of grapes, declaring he will go up to the palm tree, taking hold of its boughs, her breasts now being like clusters of the vine, the smell of her nose like apples, and the roof of her mouth like the best wine.
The bride responds, declaring the wine going down sweetly for her beloved, causing the lips of those asleep to speak, declaring, “I am my beloved’s, and his desire is toward me,” inviting him to come, let them go forth into the field, let them lodge in the villages, let them get up early to the vineyards, let them see if the vine flourishes, whether the tender grape appears, and the pomegranates bud forth, there she will give him her loves, the mandrakes giving a fragrance, and at their gates being all manner of pleasant fruits, both new and old, which she has laid up for her beloved.
This chapter’s extensive, detailed praise, moving deliberately from feet to head, celebrates the bride’s entire being with unashamed, thorough admiration befitting genuine covenant intimacy. The bride’s confident invitation, let us go forth into the fields, reveals mutual desire and initiative flowing in both directions, love expressed not merely through passive reception but through active, willing pursuit.
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