Charles Ellicott Commentary Song Of Solomon 4:13

"Thy shoots are an orchard of pomegranates, with precious fruits; Henna with spikenard plants," — Song Of Solomon 4:13 (ASV)

Your plants. —Some have thought the offspring of the marriage intended here; but the poet is plainly, by a new adaptation of the language of flowers, describing the charms of the person of his beloved.

Orchard. —Hebrew pardes; Septuagint παράδεισος; found only elsewhere in Nehemiah 2:8 (see the note there), Ecclesiastes 2:5. The pomegranate was perhaps an emblem of love, having been held sacred to the Syrian Venus. (See Tristram, Natural History of the Bible, p. 389.)

Camphire. —See the note on Song of Solomon 1:14.