Songs 5:12
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His eyes as doves upon brooks of waters, which are washed with milk, and sit beside the plentiful streams.

his eyes

Songs 1:15 Behold thou art fair, my beloved, and comely. Our bed is flourishing.

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.

Hebrews 4:13 Neither is there any creature invisible in his sight: but all things are naked and open to his eyes, to whom our speech is.

fitly set

Context
The Bride and Her Beloved
11His head is as the finest gold: his locks as branches of palm trees, black as a raven. 12His eyes as doves upon brooks of waters, which are washed with milk, and sit beside the plentiful streams.13His cheeks are as beds of aromatical spices set by the perfumers. His lips are as lilies dropping choice myrrh.…
Cross References
Exodus 25:7
Onyx stones, and precious stones to adorn the ephod and the rational.

Songs 1:15
Behold thou art fair, my beloved, and comely. Our bed is flourishing.

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.

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

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

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

the streams
אֲפִ֣יקֵי (’ă·p̄î·qê)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's Hebrew 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 Hebrew 4325: Water, juice, urine, semen

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

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

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

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

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


Additional Translations
His eyes are like doves beside the streams of water, bathed in milk and mounted like jewels.His eyes are as the eyes of doves by the rivers of waters, washed with milk, and fitly set.

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

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

His eyes are like doves by the water-brooks, Washed with milk, fitly set;

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

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

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

His eyes as doves by streams of water, Washing in milk, sitting in fulness.
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