Songs 7:5
Good News Translation
Your head is held high like Mount Carmel. Your braided hair shines like the finest satin; its beauty could hold a king captive.

New Revised Standard Version
Your head crowns you like Carmel, and your flowing locks are like purple; a king is held captive in the tresses.

Contemporary English Version
Your head is held high like Mount Carmel; your hair is so lovely it holds a king prisoner.

New American Bible
Your head rises upon you like Carmel; your hair is like purple; a king is caught in its locks.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thy head is like Carmel: and the hairs of thy head as the purple of the king bound in the channels.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Thy head is like Carmel: and the hairs of thy head as the purple of the king bound in the channels.

head

Isaiah 35:2 It shall bud forth and blossom, and shall rejoice with joy and praise: the glory of Libanus is given to it: the beauty of Carmel, and Saron, they shall see the glory of the Lord, and the beauty of our God.

Ephesians 1:22 And he hath subjected all things under his feet and hath made him head over all the church,

Ephesians 4:15,16 But doing the truth in charity, we may in all things grow up in him who is the head, even Christ: . . .

Colossians 1:18 And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things he may hold the primacy:

Colossians 2:19 And not holding the head, from which the whole body, by joints and bands, being supplied with nourishment and compacted, groweth into the increase of God.

Micah 7:14 Feed thy people with thy rod, the flock of thy inheritance, them that dwell alone in the forest, in the midst of Carmel: they shall feed in Basan and Galaad, according to the days of old.

the hair

Songs 4:1 How beautiful art thou, my love, how beautiful art thou! thy eyes are doves' eyes, besides what is hid within. Thy hair is as flocks of goats, which come up from mount Galaad.

Songs 5:11 His head is as the finest gold: his locks as branches of palm trees, black as a raven.

Revelation 1:14 And his head and his hairs were white as white wool and as snow. And his eyes were as a flame of fire:

the king

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Genesis 32:26 And he said to him: Let me go, for it is break of day. He answered: I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.

Psalm 68:24 They have seen thy goings, O God, the goings of my God: of my king who is in his sanctuary.

Psalm 87:2 The Lord loveth the gates of Sion above all the tabernacles of Jacob.

Matthew 18:20 For where there are two or three gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.

Matthew 28:20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you. And behold I am with you all days, even to the consummation of the world.

held or bound

Context
Admiration by the Bridegroom
4Thy neck as a tower of ivory. Thy eyes like the fishpools in Hesebon, which are in the gate of the daughter of the multitude. Thy nose is as the tower of Libanus, that looketh toward Damascus. 5Thy head is like Carmel: and the hairs of thy head as the purple of the king bound in the channels.6How beautiful art thou, and how comely, my dearest, in delights!…
Cross References
Proverbs 5:19
Why art thou seduced, my son, by a strange woman, and art cherished in the bosom of another?

Isaiah 35:2
It shall bud forth and blossom, and shall rejoice with joy and praise: the glory of Libanus is given to it: the beauty of Carmel, and Saron, they shall see the glory of the Lord, and the beauty of our God.

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