Verse Lens · Context pointer
Song of Solomon 2:6 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 6. 6His left hand is under my head, and his right hand doth embrace me.
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Role in This Section
This verse pictures the beloved's hands supporting and embracing the woman.
Read It With
- Song of Solomon 2:1-7
Read Song of Solomon 2:6 with 2:1-7. This verse pictures the beloved's hands supporting and embracing the woman. The complete unit establishes this movement: The lovers distinguish one another amid ordinary fields and forests; the woman delights in shade and fruit, imagines public love and private embrace, and then charges the daughters not to force or disturb love until it desires.
Why It Needs Context
This verse pictures the beloved's hands supporting and embracing the woman. That contribution depends on Song of Solomon 2:1-7; isolated teaching would detach this line from the complete lyric movement.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Song of Solomon 2:1-7 — Flowers, Shade, Embrace, and the First RefrainSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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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 2:1-7, 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, 2:1-7
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