11His head is like the purest gold. His hair is bushy, black as a raven.


In Context

8 I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, If you find my beloved, that you tell him that I am faint with love. Friends

9 How is your beloved better than another beloved, you fairest among women? How is your beloved better than another beloved, that you do so adjure us? Beloved

10 My beloved is white and ruddy. The best among ten thousand.

11 His head is like the purest gold. His hair is bushy, black as a raven.

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

13 His cheeks are like a bed of spices with towers of perfumes. His lips are like lilies, dropping liquid myrrh.

Song of Solomon 5:11 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

5:11His head [is as] the most fine gold, his locks [are] bushy, [and] black as a raven.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

5:11His head is purest gold; his hair is wavy and black as a raven.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

5:11His head is as the finest gold: his locks as branches of palm trees, black as a raven.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

5:11His head is as the most fine gold; His locks are bushy, and black as a raven.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:11His head is as the finest gold; His locks are flowing, black as the raven;

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

5:11His head is as the most fine gold, his locks are bushy, and black as a raven.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:11His head is as the most fine gold, his locks are bushy, and black as a raven.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

5:11His head is pure gold — fine gold, His locks flowing, dark as a raven,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

5:11His head is as the most fine gold, his locks are bushy, and black as a raven.