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The Song of Songs 3:11

Context
NETBible

Come out, O maidens of Zion, and gaze upon King Solomon! He is wearing the crown with which his mother crowned him on his wedding day, on the most joyous day of his life! 1 

XREF

Ps 9:14; Ps 48:11; So 1:5; So 2:7; So 7:11; So 8:5; Isa 9:6; Isa 53:11; Isa 62:5; Jer 2:2; Jer 32:41; Ho 2:19,20; Zep 3:17; Mt 12:42; Lu 15:6,7,23,24,32; Joh 3:29; Joh 15:11; Php 2:9-11; Col 1:18; Heb 2:9; Heb 13:13; Re 1:7; Re 5:9,10; Re 19:7; Re 19:12; Re 22:9,10

NET © Notes

tn Heb “the day of the joy of his heart.” In the genitive construct phrase וּבְיוֹם שִׂמְחַת (uvÿyom simkhat, “the day of joy”) the noun שִׂמְחָה (simkhah, “joy”) functions as a descriptive genitive of attribute (attributive genitive), that is, the genitive identifies the outstanding quality of the construct noun: “the joyous day” or “the day characterized by joy.” In the second genitive construct phrase שִׂמְחַת לִבּוֹ (simkhat livvo, “joy of his heart”) the noun לִבּוֹ (“his heart”) is a subjective genitive: “his heart rejoices.” The term לֵב (lev, “heart”) is a synecdoche of part for the whole (= Solomon himself), that is, “the day Solomon greatly rejoiced” or “the day of Solomon’s great joy.”



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