Song-of-solomon 5:11
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
His head is as the most fine gold, his locks are bushy, and black as a raven.
American King James Version (AKJV)
His head is as the most fine gold, his locks are bushy, and black as a raven.
American Standard Version (ASV)
His head is as the most fine gold; His locks are bushy, and black as a raven.
Basic English Translation (BBE)
His head is as the most delicate gold; his hair is thick, and black as a raven.
Webster's Revision
His head is as the most fine gold, his locks are bushy, and black as a raven.
World English Bible
His head is like the purest gold. His hair is bushy, black as a raven.
English Revised Version (ERV)
His head is as the most fine gold, his locks are bushy, and black as a raven.
Clarke's Song-of-solomon 5:11 Bible Commentary
His head is as the most fine gold - He has the most beautiful head, fine and majestic. Gold is here used to express excellence.
His locks are bushy - Crisped or curled. This may refer to his mustachios.
Black as a raven - His hair is black and glossy.
Barnes's Song-of-solomon 5:11 Bible Commentary
His head is as the most fine gold - Perhaps in the sense of noble and precious as the finest gold. Lamentations 4:2.
Bushy - Waving like branches of the palm.
Wesley's Song-of-solomon 5:11 Bible Commentary
5:11 As gold - It shines like gold, by reason of the crown of pure gold upon his head. We need not aim at a distinct application of this and the following particulars, unto some special excellency of Christ, because such things are mere conjectures, and the only design of this description is, to set forth the beauty of Christ under the notion of a most amiable person, in whom there is no defect or blemish, from the crown of his head to the sole of his feet.
