Song of Solomon 8:2

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.

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
lead	אֶנְהָֽגֲךָ֗ 'en.ha.ga.Kha	H5090	to drive forth (a person · verb, qal imperfect, 1st person common singular + pronominal suffix, 2nd person masculine singular
bring	אֲבִֽיאֲךָ֛ 'a.vi.'a.Kha	H935	to go or come (in a wide variety of applications) · verb, hiphil imperfect, 1st person common singular + pronominal suffix, 2nd person masculine singular
mother’s	אִמִּ֖י 'i.Mi	H517	a mother (as the bond of the family) · noun, common feminine singular construct + pronominal suffix
house	בֵּ֥ית beit	H1004	a house (in the greatest variation of applications · noun, common masculine singular construct
instruct	תְּלַמְּדֵ֑נִי te.la.me.De.ni	H3925	properly · verb, piel imperfect, 3rd person feminine singular + pronominal suffix
drink	אַשְׁקְךָ֙ 'ash.ke.Cha	H8248	to quaff · verb, hiphil imperfect, 1st person common singular + pronominal suffix, 2nd person masculine singular
spiced	הָרֶ֔קַח ha.Re.kach	H7544	properly · definite article + noun, common masculine singular absolute
wine	מִיַּ֣יִן mi.Ya.yin	H3196	wine (as fermented) · preposition + noun, common masculine singular construct
juice	מֵעֲסִ֖יס me.'a.Sis	H6071	must or fresh grape-juice (as just trodden out) · preposition + noun, common masculine singular construct
pomegranate	רִמֹּנִֽי ri.mo.Ni	H7416	a pomegranate · noun, common masculine singular 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 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…
Song of Solomon 4:10-5:1 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 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: ther…
Galatians 4:26 But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
Proverbs 9:2 She hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine; she hath also furnished her table.
Song of Solomon 7:9 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.
John 5:39 Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.
John 5:46-47 For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he wrote of me.

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 8:2

I would lead thee, and bring, thee into mother's house,.... The general assembly and church of the firstborn is mother to the church visible, to particular churches and believers, where they are born, educated, and brought up; for which they have a great affection, as persons usually have for the place of their nativity and education. And here the church desires to have Christ with her; either to consummate the marriage between them, Genesis 24:67; or to have the knowledge of him spread among her relations, those of her mother's house, who belonged to the election of grace; or to enjoy his presence there, with great delight and pleasure: the act of "leading" thither shows great familiarity w…

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Tyndale Open Study Notes on Song of Solomon 8:2-3

bring you to my childhood home (literally to my mother’s house): Cp. 3:4.

Rashi on Song of Solomon 8:2

To my mother’s house. The Beis Hamikdosh. That you should teach me. As You were accustomed to do in the Tent of Meeting. I would give you spiced wine to drink. Libations. Of the nectar. Sweet wine.

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The Church Fathers

Again, referring to the wine mingled with myrrh, the Canticle says, "I will give you a cup of spiced wine."
— Cyril of Jerusalem, SERMON ON THE PARALYTIC 11

Neither hold back the maidens of whom it is written, "Thus have the maidens loved you, and they have brought you into the house of their mother." You may not, then, separate the little ones from the love of Christ whom they proclaimed with prophetic exaltation even from their mother's womb.
— Ambrose of Milan, Concerning Virginity 7:41

"I will take you up and lead you in." It is right to take up the Word of God and lead him in, because he knocks at the soul, that the door may be opened to him, and, unless he finds the door opened to him, he does not enter. But if anyone opens the door, he enters and dines. The bride takes up the Word in such a way that she is taught in the taking up.
— Ambrose of Milan, On Isaac and the Soul 8.71

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

Wine — The common Hebrew word for wine is yayin, from a root meaning “to boil up,” “to be in a ferment.” Others derive it from a root meaning “to tread out,” and hence the juice of the grape trodden out.…
Pomegranate · Wine ma — Wine ma
Pomegranate Tree, The · The Jews: Drank the juice of — The Jews: Drank the juice of
Wine · From pomegranates — From pomegranates

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).