Verse Lens · Expanded explanation
Song of Solomon 2:7 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 7. 7I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please.
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Quick Meaning
This verse delivers the first adjuration not to stir or awaken love until it desires.
Read It With
- Song of Solomon 2:1-7
Read Song of Solomon 2:7 with 2:1-7. This verse delivers the first adjuration not to stir or awaken love until it desires. 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 This Verse Appears Here
The sequence gathers attraction, nourishment, public identification, bodily closeness, and restraint into one movement before the next pursuit begins. Within that movement, this verse delivers the first adjuration not to stir or awaken love until it desires.
Follow the Context
- The speakers compare themselves to common flowers, thorns, and a fruitful tree.
- The woman chooses shade and tastes sweetness.
- A banquet-house or wine-house image displays love openly.
- Food images answer lovesickness and hands frame an embrace.
- The adjuration tells the daughters not to awaken or disturb love until it desires.
Phrase-by-Phrase Explanation
“till he please”
In plain language: until love itself desires or is ready
delivers the first adjuration not to stir or awaken love until it desires. The refrain places timing and privacy beyond outside force even though its exact idiom remains disputed.
Why it matters: The wording carries interpretive or ethical risk requiring the complete unit and stated limits.
How certain? probableWhat This Verse Is Not Saying
The refrain does not authorize anyone to decide when another person's love should awaken or to ignore a refusal.
What Remains True
The refrain places timing and privacy beyond outside force even though its exact idiom remains disputed.
How It Can Shape Life
- Respect present willingness and non-interference; never hurry another person's desire.
Teach It Back
Explain Song of Solomon 2:7's contribution to Song of Solomon 2:1-7: delivers the first adjuration not to stir or awaken love until it desires. Include what the surrounding lines add, the stated uncertainty, and what this verse does not authorize.
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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 Verse Lens
How certain is this explanation? probable
Where care is needed
Leading readings are do not awaken love prematurely and do not interrupt the lovers; waking a sleeping beloved is another proposal.
These are the sources used directly for this lens. Language, grammar, disagreements, and the complete source shelf remain attached to the full thought-unit research record.
Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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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
Open source ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible: The Song of Songs with translators' notes
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, 2006
Supports: Verse-level textual, grammatical, literary, historical, and translation alternatives.
Exact location: NET Bible Song of Songs PDF, printed pp. 1232-1237, translation and notes on 2:1-7
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