Song of Solomon 2:7 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

I charge. I adjure. you. This and the verbs here are Masculine. It is not uncommon to find this: but when we do, we find true feminity has been lost.

roes. gazelles.

stir not up. excite not. Hebrew. 'ur (in the Hiphil).

awake. incite. Hebrew. 'ur (in the Piel). not to rouse from sleep, but to excite the passions. See Isaiah 42:13.Proverbs 10:12.

my love. my feelings or affection (feminine)

till he. till she. It is Feminine, to agree with love, 'ahabah. love never used in the abstract, as in Song of Solomon 3:10, and Song of Solomon 8:4 (a person). This is an appeal to the court-ladies not to try and incite her affection for Solomon.

Song of Solomon 2:7

7 I charged you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please.