Charles Ellicott Commentary Song Of Solomon 6:5

Charles Ellicott Commentary

Song Of Solomon 6:5

1819–1905
Anglican
Charles Ellicott
Charles Ellicott

Charles Ellicott Commentary

Song Of Solomon 6:5

1819–1905
Anglican
SCRIPTURE

"Turn away thine eyes from me, For they have overcome me. Thy hair is as a flock of goats, That lie along the side of Gilead." — Song Of Solomon 6:5 (ASV)

Overcome. — Margin: puffed up; Hebrew hirîbunî, from the verb rahab, a word whose root-idea seems to be to show spirit against oppression or prejudice. (Proverbs 6:3.) The Hiphil therefore means: make me spirited, or bold. (Compare Psalms 138:3.) The Septuagint and Vulgate, however, followed by many moderns, take it in the sense of scare or dazzle.

For the rest of the description, see Note, Song of Solomon 4:1 and following.