Song of Solomon 5:12
New International Version
His eyes are like doves by the water streams, washed in milk, mounted like jewels.

New Living Translation
His eyes sparkle like doves beside springs of water; they are set like jewels washed in milk.

English Standard Version
His eyes are like doves beside streams of water, bathed in milk, sitting beside a full pool.

Berean Standard Bible
His eyes are like doves beside the streams of water, bathed in milk and mounted like jewels.

King James Bible
His eyes are as the eyes of doves by the rivers of waters, washed with milk, and fitly set.

New King James Version
His eyes are like doves By the rivers of waters, Washed with milk, And fitly set.

New American Standard Bible
“His eyes are like doves Beside streams of water, Bathed in milk, And perched in their setting.

NASB 1995
“His eyes are like doves Beside streams of water, Bathed in milk, And reposed in their setting.

NASB 1977
“His eyes are like doves, Beside streams of water, Bathed in milk, And reposed in their setting.

Legacy Standard Bible
His eyes are like doves Beside streams of water, Washed in milk, And sitting in their setting.

Amplified Bible
“His eyes are like doves Beside streams of water, Bathed in milk And reposed in their setting.

Christian Standard Bible
His eyes are like doves beside flowing streams, washed in milk and set like jewels.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
His eyes are like doves beside streams of water, washed in milk and set like jewels.

American Standard Version
His eyes are like doves beside the water-brooks, Washed with milk, and fitly set.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
His eyes are like those of doves by pools of waters that are washed in milk and sit with harmony

Brenton Septuagint Translation
His eyes are as doves, by the pools of waters, washed with milk, sitting by the pools.

Contemporary English Version
His eyes are a pair of doves bathing in a stream flowing with milk.

Douay-Rheims Bible
His eyes as doves upon brooks of waters, which are washed with milk, and sit beside the plentiful streams.

English Revised Version
His eyes are like doves beside the water brooks; washed with milk, and fitly set.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
His eyes are set like doves bathing in milk.

Good News Translation
His eyes are as beautiful as doves by a flowing brook, doves washed in milk and standing by the stream.

International Standard Version
His eyes are like doves by streams of water, bathed in milk, mounted like jewels.

JPS Tanakh 1917
His eyes are like doves Beside the water-brooks; Washed with milk, And fitly set.

Literal Standard Version
His eyes as doves by streams of water, | Washing in milk, sitting in fullness.

Majority Standard Bible
His eyes are like doves beside the streams of water, bathed in milk and mounted like jewels.

New American Bible
His eyes are like doves beside streams of water, Bathing in milk, sitting by brimming pools.

NET Bible
His eyes are like doves by streams of water, washed in milk, mounted like jewels.

New Revised Standard Version
His eyes are like doves beside springs of water, bathed in milk, fitly set.

New Heart English Bible
His eyes are like doves beside the water brooks, washed with milk, mounted like jewels.

Webster's Bible Translation
His eyes are as the eyes of doves by the rivers of waters, washed with milk, and fitly set.

World English Bible
His eyes are like doves beside the water brooks, washed with milk, mounted like jewels.

Young's Literal Translation
His eyes as doves by streams of water, Washing in milk, sitting in fulness.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
The Bride and Her Beloved
11His head is purest gold; his hair is wavy and black as a raven. 12His eyes are like doves beside the streams of water, bathed in milk and mounted like jewels. 13His cheeks are like beds of spice, towers of perfume. His lips are like lilies, dripping with flowing myrrh.…

Cross References
Exodus 25:7
and onyx stones and gemstones to be mounted on the ephod and breastpiece.

Song of Solomon 1:15
How beautiful you are, my darling! Oh, how very beautiful! Your eyes are like doves.

Song of Solomon 4:1
How beautiful you are, my darling--how very beautiful! Your eyes are like doves behind your veil. Your hair is like a flock of goats streaming down Mount Gilead.


Treasury of Scripture

His eyes are as the eyes of doves by the rivers of waters, washed with milk, and fitly set.

his eyes

Song of Solomon 1:15
Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves' eyes.

Song of Solomon 4:1
Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves' eyes within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead.

Hebrews 4:13
Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.

fitly set

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Song of Solomon 5
1. Christ awakes the church with his calling
2. The church having a taste of Christ's love is sick of love
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(12) Fitly set.--Literally, sitting in fulness, which the Margin explains, according to one received method of interpretation, as beautifully set, like a precious stone in the foil of a ring. If the comparison were to the eyes of the dove, this would be a sufficient interpretation, the image being perfect, owing to the ring of bright red skin round the eye of the turtle-dove. But there is no necessity to have recourse to the figure comparatio compendiana here, since doves delight in bathing; and though there is a certain delicious haze of indistinctness in the image, the soft iridescence of the bird floating and glancing on the face of the stream might not too extravagantly suggest the quick loving glances of the eye. Keats has a somewhat similar figure:--

"To see such lovely eyes in swimming search

After some warm delight, that seems to perch

Dove-like in the dim cell lying beyond

Their upper lids;"

and Dr. Ginsburg aptly quotes from the Gitagovinda: "The glances of her eyes played like a pair of water-birds of azure plumage, that sport near a full-grown lotus in a pool in the season of dew." The words washed in milk refer to the white of the eye, which swells round the pupil like the fulness of water, i.e., the swelling wave round the dove. The parallelism is like that of Song of Solomon 1:5.



Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
His eyes
עֵינָ֕יו (‘ê·nāw)
Noun - cdc | third person masculine singular
Strong's 5869: An eye, a fountain

are like doves
כְּיוֹנִ֖ים (kə·yō·w·nîm)
Preposition-k | Noun - feminine plural
Strong's 3123: A dove

beside
עַל־ (‘al-)
Preposition
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

the streams
אֲפִ֣יקֵי (’ă·p̄î·qê)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 650: Containing, a tube, a bed, valley of a, stream, a strong thing, a hero

of water,
מָ֑יִם (mā·yim)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 4325: Water, juice, urine, semen

bathed
רֹֽחֲצוֹת֙ (rō·ḥă·ṣō·wṯ)
Verb - Qal - Participle - feminine plural
Strong's 7364: To wash, wash off or away, bathe

in milk
בֶּֽחָלָ֔ב (be·ḥā·lāḇ)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 2461: Milk

[and] mounted
יֹשְׁב֖וֹת (yō·šə·ḇō·wṯ)
Verb - Qal - Participle - feminine plural
Strong's 3427: To sit down, to dwell, to remain, to settle, to marry

like
עַל־ (‘al-)
Preposition
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

jewels.
מִלֵּֽאת׃ (mil·lêṯ)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 4402: Perhaps setting or border, rim


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