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Your head on you is like Carmel, The hair of your head like purple; The king is held captive in its tresses.
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A King Captivated by Beauty
The lover describes his beloved's head as majestic as Mount Carmel and her hair as rich as royal purple. Commentators explain this imagery portrays a beauty so profound that it could captivate a king. The point is the overwhelming and arresting nature of her appearance, which holds even the most powerful figure 'captive in the tresses.'
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Song Of Solomon
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Compare this with Song of Solomon 5:15. The marginal reading suggests “Carmel” is the name of a color, equivalent to “carmine” (rendered…
19th Century
Anglican
Carmel. The marginal note suggests crimson, from reading charmîl, which preserves the parallelism with the next …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Your head upon you [is] like Carmel Set with hair, thick and long, as Carmel with plants and trees. Now Christ is th…
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The analogies here are different from what they were before, and in the original refer to glorious and splendid clothing. All His saints have such …
