Song of Solomon 7:12 — meaning, Hebrew and Greek word study, commentary
Song of Solomon 7:12
Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my loves.
literally · verb, hiphil infinitive construct, 1st person common plural
vineyards
לַכְּרָמִ֔יםla.ke.ra.Mim
H3754
a garden or vineyard · preposition with the article + noun, common masculine plural absolute
see
נִרְאֶ֞הnir.'Eh
H7200
to see · verb, qal imperfect, 1st person common plural
vine
הַגֶּ֙פֶן֙ha.Ge.fen
H1612
a vine (as twining) · definite article + noun, common both genders singular absolute
flourish
פָּֽרְחָ֤הpa.re.Chah
H6524
to break forth as a bud · verb, qal perfect, 3rd person feminine singular
grape
הַסְּמָדַ֔רha.se.ma.Dar
H5563
a vine blossom · definite article + noun, common masculine singular absolute
appear
פִּתַּ֣חpi.Tach
H6605
to open wide (literally or figuratively) · verb, piel perfect, 3rd person masculine singular
pomegranates
הָרִמּוֹנִ֑יםha.ri.mo.Nim
H7416
a pomegranate · definite article + noun, common masculine plural absolute
forth
הֵנֵ֖צוּhe.Ne.tzu
H5132
properly · verb, hiphil perfect, 3rd person common plural
give
אֶתֵּ֥ן'e.Ten
H5414
to give · verb, qal imperfect, 1st person common singular
loves
דֹּדַ֖יdo.Dai
H1730
(figuratively) to love · noun, common masculine plural construct + pronominal suffix
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).
Cross-references
Song of Solomon 6:11 I went down into the garden of nuts to see the fruits of the valley, and to see whether the vine flourished, and the pomegranates budded.
Song of Solomon 7:6 How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!
2 Corinthians 13:5 Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except…
Ephesians 6:24 Grace be with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity. Amen.
1 Thessalonians 3:5-6 For this cause, when I could no longer forbear, I sent to know your faith, lest by some means the tempter have tempted you, and our labour b…
Psalms 122:5 For there are set thrones of judgment, the thrones of the house of David.
Song of Solomon 2:13 The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away…
Song of Solomon 4:16 Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, a…
Cross-references from OpenBible.info (CC BY), in the lineage of the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain).
Commentary
John Gill on Song of Solomon 7:12
Let us get up early to the vineyards,.... After a night's lodging in the fields, or among the "Cyprus trees". By which "vineyards" may be meant particular churches, gathered according to Gospel order, and distinguished from the world, planted with fruitful vines, and fenced by almighty power: hither the church proposes to "get up early", very early in the morning; being willing to take the first and most seasonable opportunity of visiting the saints, to know their state and condition; and, that her visit might not be in vain, she is for taking Christ along with her;
let us see if the vine flourish; true believers in Christ; who, though weak and worthless in themselves, yet being ingrafted i…
Tyndale Open Study Notes on Song of Solomon 7:11-12
The woman suggests that they go together to check on the status of the vineyards and make love while there.
Rashi on Song of Solomon 7:12
Come, my beloved, let us go out to the field. Our Rabbis expounded in [Maseches] Eruvin, that the congregation of Yisroel said, “Master of the Universe, do not judge me like dwellers of cities, where there is robbery and immorality, but32Below, verse 11. like the open village dwellers, who are craftsmen and are occupied in the study of Torah amidst hardship.”33Maseches Eruvin 21b.
Let us lodge in the villages. Let us lodge among the disbelievers [=כּוֹפְרִים. Come and I will show You Eisav’s descendants, upon whom You have lavished prosperity, but who do not believe in You.34Sifsei Chachomim amends Rashi’s text to read...“but let us go out to the field and I will show You Torah scholars who…
Actually, what has always been condemned by the church is the perverse opinion of those who dare to dissolve the unity of marriage. Listen again to the voice of holy church: "Come, my brother, let us go forth into the fields, and lodge in the villages; let us go out early to the vineyards, and see whether the vines have budded." A field may produce many fruits, but the best field is one richly productive of both fruits and flowers. The church is a field of this sort, fecund in diversity.
I have preserved for you, my brother, the new and the old; that is to say, I hold on to all the commandments of the new and the old Testament. Only the Church can say this: no other congregation says it, nor does the Synagogue, nor does it hold on to the new according to the literal meaning; nor does it hold on to the old according to the spirit. The heresy of Manichaeus does not say it, 'I have preserved for you the Old,' which does not accept the prophets. It is rightly called white, which shines with the grace of both Testaments.
Let us rise early and go to the vineyards, etc. Thus let us dwell in the villages so that we may rise to cultivate the vineyards; thus let us make our residence among those who have already converted to the faith, and let us also strive to acquire others whom we may dwell among through evangelizing. And rightly she who is to say, Let us rise to the vineyards, has prefaced it with, Early; for Early speaks of the very rising of the true light, through which the world has been rescued from the power of darkness. Early then, he says, let us rise to the vineyards; as if he plainly says: Because the harm of ancient disbelief has departed, because the light of the shining Gospel now begins to appear, let us rise, I beseech you, to the vineyards, that is, let us give our effort to the churches to be established for God throughout the world.
The Church Fathers: public-domain translations (Ante-Nicene and Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers), verse-indexed by SermonIndex (CC BY 4.0).
Dictionary and topics
Pomegranate Tree, The · Illustrative: Of saints — Illustrative: Of saints
Rising · .For — .For
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).
