King James Version

Song of Solomon 7:6

In Song of Solomon 7 of Song of Solomon.

How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!

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In the Hebrew text this line is Song of Solomon 7:7.

מַהmahhowמָהparticle, interrogative — “how”H4100properly, interrogative what? (including how? why? when?); but also exclamation, what! (including how!), or indefinitely what (including whatever, and even relatively, that which); often used with prefixes in various adverbial or conjunctive senseshow (long, oft, (-soever)), (no-) thing, what (end, good, purpose, thing), whereby(-fore, -in, -to, -with), (for) why.יָּפִית֙yafitbe beautifulיָפָהverb, qal, perfect, 2nd person, feminine, singular — “be beautiful”, a completed actionH3302properly, to be bright, i.e. (by implication) beautifulbe beautiful, be (make self) fair(-r), deck.וּמַהumahand howמָהconjunction, particle, interrogative — “and how”H4100properly, interrogative what? (including how? why? when?); but also exclamation, what! (including how!), or indefinitely what (including whatever, and even relatively, that which); often used with prefixes in various adverbial or conjunctive senseshow (long, oft, (-soever)), (no-) thing, what (end, good, purpose, thing), whereby(-fore, -in, -to, -with), (for) why.נָּעַ֔מְתְּnaamtebe delightנָעֵםverb, qal, perfect, 2nd person, feminine, singular — “be delight”, a completed actionH5276to be agreeable (literally or figuratively)pass in beauty, be delight, be pleasant, be sweet.אַהֲבָ֖הahavahloveאַהֲבָהnoun, common, feminine, singular, absolute — “love”, the ordinary formH160{affection (in a good or a bad sense)}love.בַּתַּֽעֲנוּגִֽיםbataanugimin delicateתַּעֲנוּגpreposition, with the article, noun, common, masculine, plural, absolute — “in delicate”, the ordinary formH8588luxurydelicate, delight, pleasant.

Jewish translation (JPS 1917)

(7-7) How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!

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American Standard Version (1901)

How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!

Young’s Literal Translation

How fair and how pleasant hast thou been, O love, in delights.

World English Bible

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

Darby Translation

How fair and how pleasant art thou, [my] love, in delights!

Douay-Rheims

How beautiful art thou, and how comely, my dearest, in delights!

Jewish Publication Society (1917)

(7-7) How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!

Brenton’s Septuagint (1851), English

How beautiful art thou, and how sweet art thou, my love!

Septuagint (Brenton’s Greek, 1851)

Τί ὡραιώθης, καὶ τί ἡδύνθης ἀγάπη;