Song of Solomon 8:2
New International Version
I would lead you and bring you to my mother’s house— she who has taught me. I would give you spiced wine to drink, the nectar of my pomegranates.

New Living Translation
I would bring you to my childhood home, and there you would teach me. I would give you spiced wine to drink, my sweet pomegranate wine.

English Standard Version
I would lead you and bring you into the house of my mother— she who used to teach me. I would give you spiced wine to drink, the juice of my pomegranate.

Berean Standard Bible
I would lead you and bring you to the house of my mother who taught me. I would give you spiced wine to drink, the nectar of my pomegranates.

King James Bible
I would lead thee, and bring thee into my mother's house, who would instruct me: I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine of the juice of my pomegranate.

New King James Version
I would lead you and bring you Into the house of my mother, She who used to instruct me. I would cause you to drink of spiced wine, Of the juice of my pomegranate.

New American Standard Bible
“I would lead you and bring you Into the house of my mother, who used to instruct me; I would give you spiced wine to drink from the juice of my pomegranates.

NASB 1995
“I would lead you and bring you Into the house of my mother, who used to instruct me; I would give you spiced wine to drink from the juice of my pomegranates.

NASB 1977
“I would lead you and bring you Into the house of my mother, who used to instruct me; I would give you spiced wine to drink from the juice of my pomegranates.

Legacy Standard Bible
I would lead you and bring you Into the house of my mother, who used to teach me; I would give you spiced wine to drink from the sweet wine of my pomegranates.

Amplified Bible
“I would lead you and bring you Into the house of my mother, who used to instruct me; I would give you spiced wine to drink from the juice of my pomegranates.

Christian Standard Bible
I would lead you, I would take you, to the house of my mother who taught me. I would give you spiced wine to drink from the juice of my pomegranate.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
I would lead you, I would take you, to the house of my mother who taught me. I would give you spiced wine to drink from my pomegranate juice.

American Standard Version
I would lead thee, and bring thee into my mother's house, Who would instruct me; I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine, Of the juice of my pomegranate.

Contemporary English Version
I could take you to the home of my mother, who taught me all I know. I would give you delicious wine and fruit juice as well.

English Revised Version
I would lead thee, and bring thee into my mother's house, who would instruct me; I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine, of the juice of my pomegranate.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
I would lead you. I would bring you into my mother's house. (She is the one who was my teacher.) I would give you some spiced wine to drink, some juice squeezed from my pomegranates.

Good News Translation
I would take you to my mother's house, where you could teach me love. I would give you spiced wine, my pomegranate wine to drink.

International Standard Version
I would lead you, I would bring you to the house of my mother who used to teach me. I would give you some spiced wine to drink, from the juice of my pomegranates.

Majority Standard Bible
I would lead you and bring you to the house of my mother who taught me. I would give you spiced wine to drink, the nectar of my pomegranates.

NET Bible
I would lead you and bring you to my mother's house, the one who taught me. I would give you spiced wine to drink, the nectar of my pomegranates.

New Heart English Bible
I would lead you, bringing you into my mother's house, who would instruct me. I would have you drink spiced wine, of the juice of my pomegranate.

Webster's Bible Translation
I would lead thee, and bring thee into my mother's house, who would instruct me: I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine of the juice of my pomegranate.

World English Bible
I would lead you, bringing you into the house of my mother, who would instruct me. I would have you drink spiced wine, of the juice of my pomegranate.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
I lead you, I bring you into my mother’s house, "" She teaches me, I cause you to drink of the spiced wine, "" Of the juice of my pomegranate,

Young's Literal Translation
I lead thee, I bring thee in unto my mother's house, She doth teach me, I cause thee to drink of the perfumed wine, Of the juice of my pomegranate,

Smith's Literal Translation
I will lead thee, I will bring thee to the house of my mother; thou wilt teach me: I will give thee to drink from spiced wine from the new wine of my pomegranate.
Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
I will take hold of thee, and bring thee Into my mother's house: there thou shalt teach me, and I will give thee a cup of spiced wine and new wine of my pomegranates.

Catholic Public Domain Version
I will take hold of you and lead you into my mother’s house. There you will teach me, and I will give you a cup of spiced wine, and of new wine from my pomegranates.

New American Bible
I would lead you, bring you to my mother’s house, where you would teach me, Where I would give you to drink spiced wine, my pomegranate juice.

New Revised Standard Version
I would lead you and bring you into the house of my mother, and into the chamber of the one who bore me. I would give you spiced wine to drink, the juice of my pomegranates.
Translations from Aramaic
Lamsa Bible
I would lead you and bring you into my mother's house, into the chamber of her that bore me; I would give you a drink of my delicious wine, and of the sweet juice of my pomegranates.

Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
I shall lead you and I shall bring you to the house of my mother and to the bedroom of her who bore me. I shall give you drink from my sweet wine and from the sweetness of my pomegranates
OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
I would lead thee, and bring thee into my mother's house, That thou mightest instruct me; I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine, Of the juice of my pomegranate.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
I would take thee, I would bring thee into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me; I would make thee to drink of spiced wine, of the juice of my pomegranates.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Longing for Her Beloved
1O that you were to me like a brother who nursed at my mother’s breasts! If I found you outdoors, I would kiss you, and no one would despise me. 2I would lead you and bring you to the house of my mother who taught me. I would give you spiced wine to drink, the nectar of my pomegranates. 3His left hand is under my head, and his right arm embraces me.…

Cross References
Proverbs 9:5
“Come, eat my bread and drink the wine I have mixed.

Proverbs 31:6-7
Give strong drink to one who is perishing, and wine to the bitter in soul. / Let him drink and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.

Ruth 2:14
At mealtime Boaz said to her, “Come over here; have some bread and dip it into the vinegar sauce.” So she sat down beside the harvesters, and he offered her roasted grain, and she ate and was satisfied and had some left over.

Isaiah 55:1-2
“Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you without money, come, buy, and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost! / Why spend money on that which is not bread, and your labor on that which does not satisfy? Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good, and your soul will delight in the richest of foods.

John 6:53-56
So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I tell you, unless you eat the flesh and drink the blood of the Son of Man, you have no life in you. / Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. / For My flesh is real food, and My blood is real drink. ...

John 4:13-14
Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again. / But whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a fount of water springing up to eternal life.”

Matthew 26:27-29
Then He took the cup, gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, “Drink from it, all of you. / This is My blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins. / I tell you, I will not drink of this fruit of the vine from now on until that day when I drink it anew with you in My Father’s kingdom.”

1 Corinthians 10:16-17
Is not the cup of blessing that we bless a participation in the blood of Christ? And is not the bread that we break a participation in the body of Christ? / Because there is one loaf, we who are many are one body; for we all partake of the one loaf.

Revelation 19:9
Then the angel told me to write, “Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb.” And he said to me, “These are the true words of God.”

Psalm 23:5
You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.

Genesis 27:25
“Serve me,” said Isaac, “and let me eat some of my son’s game, so that I may bless you.” Jacob brought it to him, and he ate; then he brought him wine, and he drank.

Genesis 43:34
When the portions were served to them from Joseph’s table, Benjamin’s portion was five times larger than any of the others. So they feasted and drank freely with Joseph.

1 Kings 4:22-23
Solomon’s provisions for a single day were thirty cors of fine flour, sixty cors of meal, / ten fat oxen, twenty range oxen, and a hundred sheep, as well as deer, gazelles, roebucks, and fattened poultry.

Nehemiah 8:10
Then Nehemiah told them, “Go and eat what is rich, drink what is sweet, and send out portions to those who have nothing prepared, since today is holy to our Lord. Do not grieve, for the joy of the LORD is your strength.”

Isaiah 25:6
On this mountain the LORD of Hosts will prepare a lavish banquet for all the peoples, a feast of aged wine, of choice meat, of finely aged wine.


Treasury of Scripture

I would lead you, and bring you into my mother's house, who would instruct me: I would cause you to drink of spiced wine of the juice of my pomegranate.

bring

Song of Solomon 3:4
It was but a little that I passed from them, but I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me.

Galatians 4:26
But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.

who

Luke 16:29-31
Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them…

John 5:39,46,47
Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me…

Acts 17:11,12
These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so…

i would cause

Song of Solomon 4:10-16
How fair is thy love, my sister, my spouse! how much better is thy love than wine! and the smell of thine ointments than all spices! …

Song of Solomon 5:1
I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved.

Song of Solomon 7:9,12
And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine for my beloved, that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak…

spiced

Proverbs 9:2
She hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine; she hath also furnished her table.

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Song of Solomon 8
1. The love of the church to Christ
6. The vehemence of love
8. The calling of the Gentiles
14. the church prays for Christ's coming














I would lead you
The phrase "I would lead you" suggests a deep desire for guidance and companionship. In the Hebrew context, the word for "lead" (נַהֲגֶךָּ, nahagekha) implies a gentle guiding, often used in pastoral settings. This reflects the nurturing and protective role that the speaker wishes to assume. Historically, leading someone was an act of responsibility and care, indicating a relationship built on trust and mutual respect.

and bring you
The act of bringing someone denotes an invitation into one's personal space or life. The Hebrew root (בּוֹא, bo) conveys a sense of entering or coming into a place. This phrase emphasizes the speaker's intention to integrate the beloved into their most intimate and familial settings, highlighting the depth of their commitment and affection.

to the house of my mother
The "house of my mother" is a significant phrase, as it represents a place of origin, nurturing, and familial bonds. In ancient Israelite culture, the mother's house was often a place of instruction and upbringing. This setting implies a desire to share one's roots and foundational experiences with the beloved, suggesting a merging of lives and histories.

she who has taught me
This phrase acknowledges the role of the mother as a teacher and guide. The Hebrew word for "taught" (לִמְּדָה, limmedah) indicates instruction and imparting wisdom. It underscores the importance of familial teachings and traditions in shaping one's identity and values, which the speaker wishes to pass on to the beloved.

I would give you spiced wine to drink
Offering "spiced wine" is a gesture of hospitality and celebration. In the ancient Near East, wine was often mixed with spices to enhance its flavor and was reserved for special occasions. The act of giving spiced wine symbolizes a desire to share joy and abundance, reflecting the richness of the relationship.

the nectar of my pomegranates
Pomegranates were a symbol of fertility, love, and prosperity in biblical times. The "nectar" suggests sweetness and delight, indicating the speaker's wish to offer the best of what they have. This imagery evokes a sense of abundance and the fruitful nature of their love, drawing on the pomegranate's cultural and scriptural significance as a symbol of beauty and life.

(2) Juice of my pomegranate.--"The Orientals," says Dr. Kitto, "indulge largely in beverages made of fresh juice of various kinds of fruits. Among these, sherbet made of pomegranate juice is particularly esteemed; and from its agreeable and cooling acidity, the present writer was himself accustomed to prefer it to any other drink of this description." The meaning of the verse is explained by Song of Solomon 1:2; Song of Solomon 5:1; Song of Solomon 7:9.



Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
I would lead you
אֶנְהָֽגֲךָ֗ (’en·hā·ḡă·ḵā)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common singular | second person masculine singular
Strong's 5090: To drive forth, lead, carry away, to proceed, to sigh

and bring you
אֲבִֽיאֲךָ֛ (’ă·ḇî·’ă·ḵā)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - first person common singular | second person masculine singular
Strong's 935: To come in, come, go in, go

to
אֶל־ (’el-)
Preposition
Strong's 413: Near, with, among, to

the house
בֵּ֥ית (bêṯ)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 1004: A house

of my mother
אִמִּ֖י (’im·mî)
Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 517: A mother, )

who taught me.
תְּלַמְּדֵ֑נִי (tə·lam·mə·ḏê·nî)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - third person feminine singular | first person common singular
Strong's 3925: To exercise in, learn

I would give you spiced
הָרֶ֔קַח (hā·re·qaḥ)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 7544: Perfumery, spicery

wine
מִיַּ֣יִן (mî·ya·yin)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3196: Wine, intoxication

to drink,
אַשְׁקְךָ֙ (’aš·qə·ḵā)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - first person common singular | second person masculine singular
Strong's 8248: To quaff, to irrigate, furnish a, potion to

the nectar
מֵעֲסִ֖יס (mê·‘ă·sîs)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 6071: Must, fresh grape-juice

of my pomegranates.
רִמֹּנִֽי׃ (rim·mō·nî)
Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 7416: A pomegranate, the tree, the fruit


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