Song of Solomon 8:3

Double Refrain: Embrace and Adjuration

3 His left [hand is] under my head, and his right [hand] embraces me.

Song of Solomon 8:3 Meaning and Commentary

Song of Solomon 8:3

His left hand [should be] under my head, and his right hand
should embrace me.
] That is, when she should have the presence of Christ in her mother's house. Or the words are a petition that so it might be, "let his left hand" ^F7; or a declaration of what she did enjoy, "his left hand is under my head" ^F8, (See Gill on Song of Solomon 2:6).

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FOOTNOTES:

F7 Tigurine version, Marckius, some in Michaelis.
F8 Mercerus, Piscator, Cocceius, Michaelis.

Song of Solomon 8:3 In-Context

1 {How I wish that you were my little brother}, [who] nursed {upon my mother's breasts}! [If] {I met you outside}, I would kiss you, {and no one would despise me}!

2 {I would surely bring you} to the house of my mother, {who would surely teach me}; {I would give you spiced wine to drink}, the {sweet wine} of my pomegranates.

3 His left [hand is] under my head, and his right [hand] embraces me.

4 I adjure you, {O maidens of Jerusalem}, do not arouse or awaken love until it pleases!

5 Who [is] this coming up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? Under the apple tree I awakened you; there your mother {conceived you}; there she who was in labor gave birth to you.

Footnotes

• [a] Or "embraced"