5Your head on you is like Carmel. The hair of your head like purple. The king is held captive in its tresses.


In Context

2 Your body is like a round goblet, no mixed wine is wanting. Your waist is like a heap of wheat, set about with lilies.

3 Your two breasts are like two fawns, that are twins of a roe.

4 Your neck is like an ivory tower. Your eyes are like the pools in Heshbon by the gate of Bathrabbim. Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon which looks toward Damascus.

5 Your head on you is like Carmel. The hair of your head like purple. The king is held captive in its tresses.

6 How beautiful and how pleasant you are, love, for delights!

7 This, your stature, is like a palm tree, your breasts like its fruit.

Song of Solomon 7:5 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

7:5Thine head upon thee [is] like Carmel, and the hair of thine head like purple; the king [is] held in the galleries.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

7:5Your head crowns you like Mount Carmel. Your hair is like royal tapestry; the king is held captive by its tresses.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

7:5Thy head is like Carmel: and the hairs of thy head as the purple of the king bound in the channels.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

7:5Thy head upon thee is like Carmel, And the hair of thy head like purple; The king is held captive in the tresses thereof .

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:5Thy head upon thee is like Carmel, And the locks of thy head like purple; The king is fettered by thy ringlets!

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

7:5Thine head upon thee is like Carmel, and the hair of thine head like purple; the king is held captive in the tresses thereof.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:5Thy head upon thee is like Carmel, and the hair of thy head like purple; the king is held in the galleries.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

7:5Thy head upon thee as Carmel, And the locks of thy head as purple, The king is bound with the flowings!

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

7:5Your head on you is like Carmel, and the hair of your head like purple; the king is held in the galleries.