Verse Lens · Context pointer
Song of Solomon 7:3 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 3. 3Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins.
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Role in This Section
This verse repeats the twin-gazelle comparison for the woman's breasts.
Read It With
- Song of Solomon 7:1-10
Read Song of Solomon 7:3 with 7:1-10. This verse repeats the twin-gazelle comparison for the woman's breasts. The complete unit establishes this movement: A speaker describes the woman's movement and body from feet to hair, then voices desire to climb the palm; her reply claims mutual belonging and names his desire as directed toward her.
Why It Needs Context
Read this line with Song of Solomon 7:1-10. The surrounding poem supplies the complete lyric movement summarized here: A speaker describes the woman's movement and body from feet to hair, then voices desire to climb the palm; her reply claims mutual belonging and names his desire as directed toward her.
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 7:1-10 — A Toe-to-Head Wasf and the Woman's ReplySources 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 7:1-10, 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, 7:1-10
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