Song of Songs 8:3

3 His left hand under my head, and his right hand should embrace me.

Song of Songs 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 Songs 8:3 In-Context

1 I would that thou, O my kinsman, wert he that sucked the breasts of my mother; when I found thee without, I would kiss thee; yea, they should not despise me.

2 I would take thee, I would bring thee into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me; I would make thee to drink of spiced wine, of the juice of my pomegranates.

3 His left hand under my head, and his right hand should embrace me.

4 I have charged you, ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the virtues of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake love, until he please.

5 Who is this that comes up all white, leaning on her kinsman? I raised thee up under an apple-tree; there thy mother brought thee forth; there she that bore thee brought thee forth.