Albert Barnes Commentary Song Of Solomon 3:4

"It was but a little that I passed from them, When I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, Until I had brought him into my mother`s house, And into the chamber of her that conceived me." — Song Of Solomon 3:4 (ASV)

I held him — This begins the fourth stanza. The bride’s mother is mentioned again in Song of Solomon 6:9; Song of Solomon 8:2.