Song of Solomon 7:2

Thy navel is like a round goblet, which wanteth not liquor: thy belly is like an heap of wheat set about with lilies.

Song of Solomon 7:2, King James Version

Song of Solomon 7:2 in other translations

BSB	Your navel is a rounded goblet; it never lacks blended wine. Your waist is a mound of wheat encircled by the lilies.
WEB	Your body is like a round goblet, no mixed wine is wanting. Your waist is like a heap of wheat, set about with lilies.
ASV	Thy body is like a round goblet, Wherein no mingled wine is wanting: Thy waist is like a heap of wheat Set about with lilies.
YLT	Thy waist is a basin of roundness, It lacketh not the mixture, Thy body a heap of wheat, fenced with lilies,
DARBY	Thy navel is a round goblet, which wanteth not mixed wine; Thy belly a heap of wheat, set about with lilies;
BBE	Your stomach is a store of grain with lilies round it, and in the middle a round cup full of wine.
Webster	Thy navel is like a round goblet, which wanteth not liquor: thy belly is like a heap of wheat set about with lilies.

What does Song of Solomon 7:2 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

2. navel--rather, "girdle-clasp," called from the part of the person underneath. The "shoes" (So 7:1) prove that dress is throughout presupposed on all parts where it is usually worn. She is "a bride adorned for her husband"; the "uncomely parts," being most adorned (1Co 12:23). The girdle-clasp was adorned with red rubies resembling the "round goblet" (crater or mixer) of spice-mixed wine (not "liquor," So 8:2; Is 5:22). The wine of the "New Testament in His blood" (Lu 22:20). The spiritual exhilaration by it was mistaken for that caused by new wine (Ac 2:13-17; Ep 5:18). belly--that is, the vesture on it. As in Psa 45:13, 14, gold and needlework compose the bride's attire, so golden-colored "wheat" and white "lilies" here. The ripe grain, in token of harvest joy, used to be decorated with lilies; so the accumulated spiritual food (Joh 6:35; 12:24), free from chaff, not fenced with thorns, but made attractive by lilies ("believers," So 2:2; Ac 2:46, 47; 5:13, 14, in common partaking of it). Associated with the exhilarating wine cup (Zec 9:17), as here.

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Adam Clarke's Commentary

Verse 2 Thy navel is like a round goblet - This may also refer to some ornamental dress about the loins. These suppositions are rendered very probable from hundreds of the best finished and highly decorated drawings of Asiatic ladies in my own collection, where every thing appears in the drawings, as in nature. A heap of wheat set about with lilies - This is another instance of the same kind. The richly embroidered dresses in the above drawings may amply illustrate this also. Ainsworth supposes the metaphor is taken from a pregnant woman; the child in the womb being nourished by means of the umbilical cord or navel string, till it is brought into the world. After which it is fed by means of the mother's breasts, which are immediately mentioned. Possibly the whole may allude to the bride's pregnancy.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Song of Solomon 7:1-9

The graces of the church. (Song 7:1-9) The delight of the church in Christ. (Song 7:10-13) Verses 1-9 The similitudes here are different from what they were before, and in the original refer to glorious and splendid clothing. Such honour have all his saints; and having put on Christ, they are distinguished by their beautiful and glorious apparel. They adorn the doctrine of God their Saviour in all things. Consistent…

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Song of Solomon 7:2 in the original Hebrew

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שָׁרְרֵךְ֙sha.re.reKhnavel yourH8326

אַגַּ֣ן'a.Gan[is] [the] bowl ofH101

הַסַּ֔הַרha.Sa.har<the> roundnessH5469

אַל\־'al-may notH408

יֶחְסַ֖רyech.Sarit lackH2637

הַמָּ֑זֶגha.Ma.zeg<the> mixed wineH4197

בִּטְנֵךְ֙bit.neKhbelly yourH990

עֲרֵמַ֣ת'a.re.Mat[is] a heap ofH6194

חִטִּ֔יםchi.Timwheat<s>H2406

סוּגָ֖הsu.Gahfenced aroundH5473

בַּשּׁוֹשַׁנִּֽים\׃ba.sho.sha.Nimwith <the> liliesH7799

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Cross references for Song of Solomon 7:2

Romans 7:4
Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.
Jeremiah 1:5
Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.
Psalms 45:16
Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children, whom thou mayest make princes in all the earth.
Proverbs 3:8
It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.
Song of Solomon 5:14
His hands are as gold rings set with the beryl: his belly is as bright ivory overlaid with sapphires.
Isaiah 46:3
Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, which are borne by me from the belly, which are carried from the womb:

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

navel.
Pr 3:8
liquor. Heb. mixture. thy belly.
5:14; Ps 45:16; Isa 46:3; Jer 1:5; Ro 7:4

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Context

Song of Solomon 7:1
How beautiful are thy feet with shoes, O prince’s daughter! the joints of thy thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a cunning workman.
Song of Solomon 7:2
Thy navel is like a round goblet, which wanteth not liquor: thy belly is like an heap of wheat set about with lilies.
Song of Solomon 7:3
Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins.

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Song of Solomon 7:2 in other languages

Spanish Reina-Valera 1909	Tu ombligo, como una taza redonda, que no le falta bebida. Tu vientre, como montón de trigo, cercado de lirios.
French Bible J.N. Darby 1885	Que tes pieds sont beaux dans ta chaussure, fille de prince! Les contours de tes hanches sont comme des joyaux, ouvrage des mains d’un artiste.
German Elberfelder 1871	Dein Nabel ist eine runde Schale, in welcher der Mischwein nicht mangelt; dein Leib ein Weizenhaufen, umzäunt mit Lilien.
Latin Clementine Vulgate	Umbilicus tuus crater tornatilis, numquam indigens poculis. Venter tuus sicut acervus tritici vallatus liliis.