Song of Solomon 4:7

Thou art all fair, my love; there is no spot in thee.

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
fair	יָפָה֙ ya.Fah	H3303	beautiful (literally or figuratively) · adjective, feminine singular absolute
love	רַעְיָתִ֔י ra'.ya.Ti	H7474	a female associate · noun, common feminine singular construct + pronominal suffix
spot	וּמ֖וּם u.Mum	H3971	to stain · conjunction + noun, common masculine singular absolute

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Cross-references

Song of Solomon 1:15 Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves’ eyes.
Song of Solomon 4:1 Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves’ eyes within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear…
Ephesians 5:25-27 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
Colossians 1:22 In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:
Jude 1:24 Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,
Psalms 45:11 So shall the king greatly desire thy beauty: for he is thy Lord; and worship thou him.
Psalms 45:13 The king’s daughter is all glorious within: her clothing is of wrought gold.
Song of Solomon 5:16 His mouth is most sweet: yea, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.

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Commentary

John Gill on Song of Solomon 4:7

Thou art all fair, my love,.... Being justified by the righteousness of Christ, washed in his blood, and sanctified by his Spirit; of the title, my "love", see Sol 1:9. The church is often said by Christ to be "fair", his "fair one", and the "fairest among women", Sol 1:8; but here "all fair", being a perfection of beauty, and perfectly comely through his comeliness: this is said to show her completeness in Christ, as to justification; and that, with respect to sanctification, she had a perfection of parts, though not of degrees; and to observe, that the church and "all" the true members of it were so, the meanest and weakest believer, as well as the greatest and strongest. It is added, the…

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Tyndale Open Study Notes on Song of Solomon 4:6

After mention of the breasts in the previous verse, the man’s exclamation that he wants to hurry to the mountain of myrrh and hill of frankincense is easily understood as his desire to be intimately close to this beautiful woman.

Rashi on Song of Solomon 4:6

Until the sun spreads. Until the sun spreads. And the shadows flee. That is the time of intense heat, the hottest time of the day. I will save you, and you are pleasant to me. The sun. הַיּוֹם here means] “the sun,”47Usually it means “the day.” and similarly, “in the direction of the sun הַיּוֹם,”48Bereishis 3:8. and similarly, “for behold, the sun הַיּוֹם comes, burning like a furnace,”49Malachi 3:19. and once the sun has spread, “I will go to Mount Moriyah,” into the eternal Temple, [from] Bereishis Rabbah,50Bereishis Rabbah 55:7. i.e., from when they sinned before Me by profaning My sacred offerings and by spurning My meal offerings in the days of Chofni and Pinchas.51See I Shmuel 2:12-…

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The Church Fathers

God the Word says to [the church], "You are all fair, my love, and there is no blemish in you," for guilt has been washed away. "Come here from Lebanon, my spouse, come here from Lebanon, from the beginning of faith you will pass through and pass on," because, renouncing the world, she passed through things temporal and passed on to Christ.
— Ambrose of Milan, On the Mysteries 7:39

"Come hither from Lebanon. You shall pass and pass through." This verse must be often repeated by us, that at least being called by the words of the Lord, she may follow if there be any who will not trust the words of man. We have not formed this power for ourselves, but have received it; this is the heavenly teaching of the mystic song.
— Ambrose of Milan, Concerning Virginity 2.6.42

We require prayer, in fact—attentive and earnest prayer—for our eyes to become like doves with the gift of spiritual sight, getting beyond the veil of the letter and distinguishing clearly the hidden mysteries. It is not possible by any other way, you see, to come to know the meaning of the divine Scripture, especially the Song of Songs, than having the very one who inspired those composers illuminate our vision by sending rays of grace and give a glimpse of the hidden sense.
— Theodoret of Cyrus, COMMENTARY ON THE SONG OF SONGS 4

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Dictionary and topics

Forest — Heb. ya’ar, meaning a dense wood, from its luxuriance. Thus all the great primeval forests of Syria (Eccl. 2:6; Isa. 44:14; Jer. 5:6; Micah 5:8). The most extensive was the trans-Jordanic forest of…
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Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).