Verse Lens · Context pointer
Song of Solomon 1:17 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 17. 17The beams of our house are cedar, and our rafters of fir.
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Role in This Section
This verse extends the shared space into cedar beams and fir rafters.
Read It With
- Song of Solomon 1:9-17
Read Song of Solomon 1:17 with 1:9-17. This verse extends the shared space into cedar beams and fir rafters. The complete unit establishes this movement: The lovers answer one another with extravagant animal, jewelry, perfume, landscape, and architectural images until their imagined meeting place becomes a living outdoor house.
Why It Needs Context
Read this line with Song of Solomon 1:9-17. The surrounding poem supplies the complete lyric movement summarized here: The lovers answer one another with extravagant animal, jewelry, perfume, landscape, and architectural images until their imagined meeting place becomes a living outdoor house.
Continue in Context
Read the complete section for the connected explanation and how it should shape life. This verse is a doorway into that passage, not a saying that stands alone.
Read Song of Solomon 1:9-17 — Mutual Praise Builds an Open-Air HomeSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact Scripture wording, paragraph markers, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage.
Exact location: Song of Solomon 1:9-17, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Song of Songs
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording, morphology, speaker-gender signals, wordplay, poetic clauses, and translation questions.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Song.xml, 1:9-17
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