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Let her breasts satisfy you always. May you always be captivated by her love.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/proverbs/5.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />a lovely deer, a graceful doe. Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight; be intoxicated always in her love.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/proverbs/5.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />A loving doe, a graceful fawn—may her breasts satisfy you always; may you be captivated by her love forever.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/proverbs/5.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br /><i>Let her be as</i> the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/proverbs/5.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br /><i>As a</i> loving deer and a graceful doe, Let her breasts satisfy you at all times; And always be enraptured with her love.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/proverbs/5.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br /><i>Like</i> a loving doe and a graceful mountain goat, Let her breasts satisfy you at all times; Be exhilarated always with her love.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/proverbs/5.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />As a loving hind and a graceful doe, Let her breasts satisfy you at all times; Be exhilarated always with her love.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/proverbs/5.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br /><i>As</i> a loving hind and a graceful doe, Let her breasts satisfy you at all times; Be exhilarated always with her love.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/proverbs/5.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br /><i>As</i> a loving hind and a graceful doe, Let her breasts satisfy you at all times; Be intoxicated always with her love.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/proverbs/5.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br /><i>Let her be as</i> a loving hind and graceful doe, Let her breasts refresh <i>and</i> satisfy you at all times; Always be exhilarated <i>and</i> delight in her love.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/proverbs/5.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />A loving deer, a graceful doe — let her breasts always satisfy you; be lost in her love forever.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/proverbs/5.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />A loving doe, a graceful fawn— let her breasts always satisfy you; be lost in her love forever. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/proverbs/5.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />As a loving hind and a pleasant doe, Let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; And be thou ravished always with her love.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/proverbs/5.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />She is beautiful and graceful, just like a deer; you should be attracted to her and stay deeply in love. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/proverbs/5.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />As a loving hind and a pleasant doe, let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/proverbs/5.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />a loving doe and a graceful deer. Always let her breasts satisfy you. Always be intoxicated with her love. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/proverbs/5.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />pretty and graceful as a deer. Let her charms keep you happy; let her surround you with her love. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/proverbs/5.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />Like a loving deer, a beautiful doe, let her breasts satisfy you all the time. Be constantly intoxicated by her love.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/proverbs/5.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />A loving doe, a graceful fawn?may her breasts satisfy you always; may you be captivated by her love forever.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/proverbs/5.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />a loving doe, a graceful deer; may her breasts satisfy you at all times, may you be captivated by her love always. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/proverbs/5.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />A loving doe and a graceful deer--let her breasts satisfy you at all times. Be captivated always with her love.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/proverbs/5.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/proverbs/5.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />A loving doe and a graceful deer— let her breasts satisfy you at all times. Be captivated always with her love. <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/proverbs/5.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />A doe of loves, and a roe of grace! Let her loves satisfy you at all times, "" Magnify yourself in her love continually.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/proverbs/5.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> A hind of loves, and a roe of grace! Let her loves satisfy thee at all times, In her love magnify thyself continually.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/proverbs/5.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />The hind of loves and the wild goat of grace; her breasts shall satiate thee in all time; thou shalt always wander in her loves.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/proverbs/5.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />Let her be thy dearest hind, and most agreeable fawn: let her breasts inebriate thee at all times; he thou delighted continually with her love. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/proverbs/5.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />a beloved doe and most pleasing fawn. Let her breasts inebriate you at all times. Be delighted continually by her love.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/proverbs/5.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />your lovely hind, your graceful doe. Of whose love you will ever have your fill, and by her ardor always be intoxicated. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/proverbs/5.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />a lovely deer, a graceful doe. May her breasts satisfy you at all times; may you be intoxicated always by her love.<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/proverbs/5.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />Let her be like a loving hind, and pleasant mountain roe; learn her ways always, and be mindful of her love.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/proverbs/5.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />An affectionate hind and an affectionate mountain goat; learn her ways always and think on her love.<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/proverbs/5.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />A lovely hind and a graceful doe, Let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; With her love be thou ravished always.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/proverbs/5.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />Let <i>thy</i> loving hart and thy graceful colt company with thee, and let her be considered thine own, and be with thee at all times; for ravished with her love thou shalt be greatly increased.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/proverbs/5-19.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/kpUA5ZltBeQ?start=865" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/proverbs/5.htm">Avoiding Immorality</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">18</span>May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth: <span class="reftext">19</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/158.htm" title="158: ’ă·hā·ḇîm (N-mp) -- Love (noun). From 'ahab; affection.">A loving</a> <a href="/hebrew/355.htm" title="355: ’ay·ye·leṯ (N-fsc) -- A hind, doe. Feminine of 'ayal; a doe or female deer.">doe,</a> <a href="/hebrew/2580.htm" title="2580: ḥên (N-ms) -- Favor, grace. From chanan; graciousness, i.e. Subjective or objective.">a graceful</a> <a href="/hebrew/3280.htm" title="3280: wə·ya·‘ă·laṯ- (Conj-w:: N-fsc) -- Female mountain goat. Feminine of ya'el.">fawn—</a> <a href="/hebrew/1717.htm" title="1717: dad·de·hā (N-mdc:: 3fs) -- Breast, teat, nipple. Apparently from the same as dowd; the breast.">may her breasts</a> <a href="/hebrew/7301.htm" title="7301: yə·raw·wu·ḵā (V-Piel-Imperf-3mp:: 2ms) -- To be saturated, drink one's fill. A primitive root; to slake the thirst.">satisfy you</a> <a href="/hebrew/3605.htm" title="3605: ḇə·ḵāl- (Prep-b:: N-msc) -- The whole, all. Or kowl; from kalal; properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every.">always;</a> <a href="/hebrew/6256.htm" title="6256: ‘êṯ (N-cs) -- Time. From ad; time, especially now, when, etc."></a> <a href="/hebrew/7686.htm" title="7686: tiš·geh (V-Qal-Imperf-2ms) -- A primitive root; to stray, usually to mistake, especially to transgress; by extension to reel, be enraptured.">may you be captivated</a> <a href="/hebrew/160.htm" title="160: bə·’a·hă·ḇā·ṯāh (Prep-b:: N-fsc:: 3fs) -- Love (noun). Feminine of 'ahab and meaning the same.">by her love</a> <a href="/hebrew/8548.htm" title="8548: ṯā·mîḏ (Adv) -- From an unused root meaning to stretch; properly, continuance; but used only constant; ellipt. The regular sacrifice.">forever.</a> </span><span class="reftext">20</span>Why be captivated, my son, by an adulteress, or embrace the bosom of a stranger?…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/songs/4-5.htm">Song of Solomon 4:5</a></span><br />Your breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle grazing among the lilies.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/songs/7-7.htm">Song of Solomon 7:7-8</a></span><br />Your stature is like a palm tree; your breasts are clusters of fruit. / I said, “I will climb the palm tree; I will take hold of its fruit.” May your breasts be like clusters of the vine, the fragrance of your breath like apples,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/songs/1-13.htm">Song of Solomon 1:13</a></span><br />My beloved is to me a sachet of myrrh resting between my breasts.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/songs/2-16.htm">Song of Solomon 2:16</a></span><br />My beloved is mine and I am his; he pastures his flock among the lilies.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/songs/4-10.htm">Song of Solomon 4:10</a></span><br />How delightful is your love, my sister, my bride! Your love is much better than wine, and the fragrance of your perfume than all spices.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/songs/7-6.htm">Song of Solomon 7:6</a></span><br />How fair and pleasant you are, O love, with your delights!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/genesis/2-24.htm">Genesis 2:24</a></span><br />For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_corinthians/7-3.htm">1 Corinthians 7:3-5</a></span><br />The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband. / The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife. / Do not deprive each other, except by mutual consent and for a time, so you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again, so that Satan will not tempt you through your lack of self-control.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ephesians/5-28.htm">Ephesians 5:28-33</a></span><br />In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. / Indeed, no one ever hated his own body, but he nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church. / For we are members of His body. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/hebrews/13-4.htm">Hebrews 13:4</a></span><br />Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_peter/3-7.htm">1 Peter 3:7</a></span><br />Husbands, in the same way, treat your wives with consideration as a delicate vessel, and with honor as fellow heirs of the gracious gift of life, so that your prayers will not be hindered.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ecclesiastes/9-9.htm">Ecclesiastes 9:9</a></span><br />Enjoy life with your beloved wife all the days of the fleeting life that God has given you under the sun—all your fleeting days. For this is your portion in life and in your labor under the sun.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/malachi/2-14.htm">Malachi 2:14-15</a></span><br />Yet you ask, “Why?” It is because the LORD has been a witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have broken faith, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant. / Has not the LORD made them one, having a portion of the Spirit? And why one? Because He seeks godly offspring. So guard yourselves in your spirit and do not break faith with the wife of your youth.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_corinthians/6-16.htm">1 Corinthians 6:16-20</a></span><br />Or don’t you know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, “The two will become one flesh.” / But he who unites himself with the Lord is one with Him in spirit. / Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a man can commit is outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/19-4.htm">Matthew 19:4-6</a></span><br />Jesus answered, “Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’ / and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’? / So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate.”</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy you at all times; and be you ravished always with her love.</p><p class="hdg">as the</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/songs/2-9.htm">Song of Solomon 2:9</a></b></br> My beloved is like a roe or a young hart: behold, he standeth behind our wall, he looketh forth at the windows, shewing himself through the lattice.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/songs/4-5.htm">Song of Solomon 4:5</a></b></br> Thy two breasts <i>are</i> like two young roes that are twins, which feed among the lilies.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/songs/7-3.htm">Song of Solomon 7:3</a></b></br> Thy two breasts <i>are</i> like two young roes <i>that are</i> twins.</p><p class="hdg">satisfy thee or water thee</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/proverbs/5-15.htm">Proverbs 5:15</a></b></br> Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.</p><p class="hdg">be thou always ravished with her love </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/proverbs/12-4.htm">Proverbs 12:4</a></b></br> A virtuous woman <i>is</i> a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed <i>is</i> as rottenness in his bones.</p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/1_chronicles/29-3.htm">Affection</a> <a href="/psalms/141-5.htm">Always</a> <a href="/psalms/22-9.htm">Breasts</a> <a href="/songs/7-5.htm">Captivated</a> <a href="/psalms/141-5.htm">Continually</a> <a href="/psalms/42-1.htm">Deer</a> <a href="/proverbs/3-17.htm">Delight</a> <a href="/psalms/22-1.htm">Doe</a> <a href="/proverbs/5-20.htm">Exhilarated</a> <a href="/proverbs/5-10.htm">Fill</a> <a href="/proverbs/4-3.htm">Gentle</a> <a href="/proverbs/4-9.htm">Grace</a> <a href="/proverbs/1-9.htm">Graceful</a> <a href="/psalms/22-1.htm">Hind</a> <a href="/proverbs/5-20.htm">Infatuated</a> <a href="/proverbs/3-12.htm">Loves</a> <a href="/psalms/147-11.htm">Loving</a> <a href="/psalms/69-30.htm">Magnify</a> <a href="/psalms/119-139.htm">Passion</a> <a href="/proverbs/3-17.htm">Pleasant</a> <a href="/psalms/51-8.htm">Rapture</a> <a href="/judges/20-5.htm">Ravished</a> <a href="/psalms/42-1.htm">Roe</a> <a href="/psalms/145-16.htm">Satisfy</a> <a href="/proverbs/5-17.htm">Thyself</a> <a href="/psalms/129-2.htm">Times</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/jeremiah/2-2.htm">Affection</a> <a href="/proverbs/6-14.htm">Always</a> <a href="/songs/1-13.htm">Breasts</a> <a href="/proverbs/5-20.htm">Captivated</a> <a href="/proverbs/6-14.htm">Continually</a> <a href="/proverbs/7-22.htm">Deer</a> <a href="/proverbs/7-18.htm">Delight</a> <a href="/jeremiah/14-5.htm">Doe</a> <a href="/proverbs/5-20.htm">Exhilarated</a> <a href="/proverbs/6-30.htm">Fill</a> <a href="/proverbs/15-1.htm">Gentle</a> <a href="/proverbs/8-35.htm">Grace</a> <a href="/songs/7-1.htm">Graceful</a> <a href="/jeremiah/14-5.htm">Hind</a> <a href="/proverbs/5-20.htm">Infatuated</a> <a href="/proverbs/7-18.htm">Loves</a> <a href="/proverbs/12-1.htm">Loving</a> <a href="/proverbs/5-20.htm">Magnify</a> <a href="/proverbs/14-30.htm">Passion</a> <a href="/proverbs/9-17.htm">Pleasant</a> <a href="/songs/2-3.htm">Rapture</a> <a href="/proverbs/5-20.htm">Ravished</a> <a href="/proverbs/6-5.htm">Roe</a> <a href="/proverbs/6-30.htm">Satisfy</a> <a href="/proverbs/5-20.htm">Thyself</a> <a href="/proverbs/6-14.htm">Times</a><div class="vheading2">Proverbs 5</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/proverbs/5-1.htm">Solomon exhorts to wisdom</a></span><br><span class="reftext">3. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/proverbs/5-3.htm">He shows the mischief of unfaithfulness and riot</a></span><br><span class="reftext">15. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/proverbs/5-15.htm">He exhorts to contentedness, generosity, and chastity</a></span><br><span class="reftext">22. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/proverbs/5-22.htm">The wicked are overtaken with their own sins</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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These animals were often associated with love and affection due to their delicate nature. The use of such imagery in this context highlights the ideal of marital love being tender and cherished. The Song of Solomon also uses similar imagery to describe romantic love (<a href="/songs/2-9.htm">Song of Solomon 2:9, 2</a>:17), emphasizing the beauty and desirability of the beloved. This phrase encourages the appreciation of one's spouse, reflecting the biblical principle of valuing and honoring one's partner.<p><b>may her breasts satisfy you always;</b><br>This phrase underscores the importance of physical intimacy within marriage. In the biblical context, sexual relations are seen as a gift from God, meant to be enjoyed within the covenant of marriage. The satisfaction mentioned here is not merely physical but also emotional and spiritual, fostering a deep bond between husband and wife. This aligns with the teaching in <a href="/1_corinthians/7-3.htm">1 Corinthians 7:3-5</a>, where Paul advises married couples to fulfill each other's needs, highlighting mutual satisfaction and commitment.<p><b>may you be captivated by her love forever.</b><br>The concept of being captivated by love suggests a deep, ongoing attraction and commitment. This is not a fleeting infatuation but a lifelong dedication to one's spouse. The use of the word "forever" indicates the enduring nature of marital love, which is meant to reflect God's everlasting love for His people. <a href="/ephesians/5-25.htm">Ephesians 5:25-33</a> draws a parallel between the love of a husband for his wife and Christ's love for the church, emphasizing sacrificial and unwavering devotion. This phrase encourages couples to continually nurture their relationship, ensuring that love remains vibrant and strong throughout their lives.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/s/solomon.htm">Solomon</a></b><br>Traditionally considered the author of Proverbs, Solomon was the son of King David and known for his wisdom. He wrote Proverbs to impart wisdom and guidance, particularly to young men.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/t/the_wife.htm">The Wife</a></b><br>In this verse, the wife is metaphorically described as a "loving doe" and a "graceful fawn," symbolizing beauty, grace, and affection within the marital relationship.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/m/marriage.htm">Marriage</a></b><br>The context of this verse is the sanctity and joy of the marital relationship, emphasizing fidelity and delight in one's spouse.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/t/the_beauty_of_marital_love.htm">The Beauty of Marital Love</a></b><br>Marriage is a divine institution designed for mutual satisfaction and joy. <a href="/proverbs/5-19.htm">Proverbs 5:19</a> encourages spouses to find delight and fulfillment in each other, celebrating the beauty of marital love.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/f/fidelity_and_commitment.htm">Fidelity and Commitment</a></b><br>The verse underscores the importance of being captivated by one's spouse, promoting fidelity and a lifelong commitment to nurturing the marital relationship.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_role_of_physical_intimacy.htm">The Role of Physical Intimacy</a></b><br>Physical intimacy is a vital component of marriage, intended to strengthen the bond between husband and wife. This verse highlights the importance of maintaining a healthy and affectionate physical relationship.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_power_of_love_and_attraction.htm">The Power of Love and Attraction</a></b><br>Love and attraction are powerful forces that can sustain a marriage. <a href="/proverbs/5-19.htm">Proverbs 5:19</a> encourages spouses to continually cultivate these aspects, ensuring a vibrant and enduring relationship.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_proverbs_5.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Proverbs 5</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/does_proverbs_5_19_objectify_wives.htm">Proverbs 5:19: Does likening a wife to a “loving doe” and “graceful deer” suggest objectification, conflicting with broader biblical claims of respect for all? </a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/why_blame_only_the_woman_in_proverbs_5_8.htm">Proverbs 5:8: Why does the passage focus blame on the 'immoral woman' without addressing mutual responsibility, and does this align with modern views on equality?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/does_'eye_for_eye'_oppose_'turn_cheek'.htm">Deuteronomy 19:21: Does the 'eye for eye' principle contradict New Testament teachings such as turning the other cheek (Matthew 5:38-39)?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/does_proverbs_23_9_conflict_with_sharing_truth.htm">Proverbs 23:9 says not to speak to a fool; does this conflict with the New Testament's call to share truth with everyone?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/proverbs/5.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(19) <span class= "bld">Loving hind and pleasant roe.--</span>The deer and chamois, from their grace and speed and lustrous eyes, have always been chosen by the Oriental poets as figures of human strength and beauty. (Comp. <a href="/songs/2-9.htm" title="My beloved is like a roe or a young hart: behold, he stands behind our wall, he looks forth at the windows, showing himself through the lattice.">Song of Solomon 2:9</a>; <a href="/songs/2-17.htm" title="Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be you like a roe or a young hart on the mountains of Bether.">Song of Solomon 2:17</a>; <a href="/songs/7-3.htm" title="Your two breasts are like two young roes that are twins.">Song of Solomon 7:3</a>; <a href="/songs/8-14.htm" title="Make haste, my beloved, and be you like to a roe or to a young hart on the mountains of spices.">Song of Solomon 8:14</a>; <a href="/psalms/18-33.htm" title="He makes my feet like hinds' feet, and sets me on my high places.">Psalm 18:33</a>.) Both these animals are said to be remarkable for their affection to their young.<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/proverbs/5.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 19.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe.</span> The words in italics do not occur in the original. The expression, "the loving hind and pleasant roe," is, therefore, to be attached to the preceding verse, as carrying on the sense and as descriptive of the grace and fascinating charms of the young wife. As combining these attributes, she is to be the object of thy love and devotion,the one in whom thine affections are to find the fulfilment of their desires. Love and grace are her possessions. The <span class="accented">loving hind</span> (Hebrew, <span class="accented">ayyeleth ahavim</span>); literally, <span class="accented">the hind of loves</span>, which may be understood, as in the Authorized Version, as pointing to the fondness of this animal for its young, or as descriptive of its beauty and the extreme gracefulness of its form. In this sense the phrase may be rendered, "the lovely hind." The <span class="accented">ayyeleth</span>, or <span class="accented">ayyalah</span>, feminine of <span class="accented">ayyal</span>, "stag," or "hart," was in all probability the gazelle, <span class="accented">Pleasant roe</span> (Hebrew, <span class="accented">yhaalath khen</span>); literally, <span class="accented">the ibex of grace.</span> The particular expression only occurs here in the Bible. <span class="accented">The yaalath is the</span> feminine of <span class="accented">yaal</span>, "the ibex" or "mountain goat" according to Bochart, or the "chamois" according to Gesenius. It does not appear that it is so much "the pleasantness" or amiability of this animal which is here alluded to as its gracefulness of form. As terms of endearment, the words entered largely into the erotic poetry of the East. Thus in the <a href="/songs/4-5.htm">Song of Solomon 4:5</a> the bride likens her beloved to "a roe or young hart" (cf. also <a href="/songs/4.htm">Song of Solomon 4</a>:17 and Song 8:14). while numerous examples might be quoted from the Arabian and Persian poets. They were also employed sometimes as names for women. Compare the superscription of <a href="/psalms/22.htm">Psalm 22</a>, <span class="accented">Ayyeleth hash-shakar</span>, "Upon the hind of the dawn." <span class="cmt_word">Let her breasts satisfy thee at all times.</span> The love of the wife is to refresh and fully satisfy the husband. The word <span class="accented">dadeyah</span>, "her breasts," only occurs here and in <a href="/ezekiel/23-3.htm">Ezekiel 23:3, 8, 21</a>, and is equivalent to <span class="accented">dodeyah</span>, "her love." The marginal reading, "water thee," serves to bring out the literal meaning of the <span class="accented">y'ravvuka</span>, derived from <span class="accented">ravah</span>, in kal, "to drink largely," "to be satisfied with drink," but misses the emphatic force of the piel, "to be fully satisfied or satiated." This is expressed very forcibly in the Vulgate rendering, "Let her breasts inebriate thee (<span class="accented">indebrient te</span>)," which represents the strong influence which the attractions of the wife are to maintain. The LXX., on the other hand, avoiding the rather sensual colouring of the language, substitutes, "May she thine own lead thee, and be with thee always." <span class="cmt_word">And be thou ravished always with her love</span>; <span class="accented">i.e.</span> let it intoxicate thee. The teacher, by a bold figure, describes the entire fascination which the husband is to allow the wife to exercise over him. The verb <span class="accented">shagah</span> is "to reel under the influence of wine," and is so used in the succeeding vers. 20 and 23, and <a href="/proverbs/20-1.htm">Proverbs 20:1</a> and <a href="/isaiah/28-7.htm">Isaiah 28:7</a>. The primary meaning, "to err from the way," scarcely applies here, and does not express the idea of the teacher, which is to describe "an intensity of love connected with the feeling of superabundant happiness" (Delitzsch). The Vulgate, <span class="accented">In amore ejus delectare jugiter</span>, "In her love delight thyself continually," and the LXX., "For in her love thou shalt be daily engaged," are mere paraphrases. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/proverbs/5-19.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">A loving</span><br /><span class="heb">אֲהָבִ֗ים</span> <span class="translit">(’ă·hā·ḇîm)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_158.htm">Strong's 158: </a> </span><span class="str2">Love (noun)</span><br /><br /><span class="word">doe,</span><br /><span class="heb">אַיֶּ֥לֶת</span> <span class="translit">(’ay·ye·leṯ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - feminine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_365.htm">Strong's 365: </a> </span><span class="str2">lofty tree', a city and harbor on the Red Sea</span><br /><br /><span class="word">a graceful</span><br /><span class="heb">חֵ֥ן</span> <span class="translit">(ḥên)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2580.htm">Strong's 2580: </a> </span><span class="str2">Graciousness, subjective, objective</span><br /><br /><span class="word">fawn—</span><br /><span class="heb">וְֽיַעֲלַ֫ת־</span> <span class="translit">(wə·ya·‘ă·laṯ-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3280.htm">Strong's 3280: </a> </span><span class="str2">Female mountain goat</span><br /><br /><span class="word">may her breasts</span><br /><span class="heb">דַּ֭דֶּיהָ</span> <span class="translit">(dad·de·hā)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - mdc | third person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1717.htm">Strong's 1717: </a> </span><span class="str2">Breast, teat, nipple</span><br /><br /><span class="word">satisfy you</span><br /><span class="heb">יְרַוֻּ֣ךָ</span> <span class="translit">(yə·raw·wu·ḵā)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Piel - Imperfect - third person masculine plural | second person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7301.htm">Strong's 7301: </a> </span><span class="str2">To be saturated, drink one's fill</span><br /><br /><span class="word">always;</span><br /><span class="heb">בְכָל־</span> <span class="translit">(ḇə·ḵāl-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3605.htm">Strong's 3605: </a> </span><span class="str2">The whole, all, any, every</span><br /><br /><span class="word">may you be captivated</span><br /><span class="heb">תִּשְׁגֶּ֥ה</span> <span class="translit">(tiš·geh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7686.htm">Strong's 7686: </a> </span><span class="str2">To stray, to mistake, to transgress, to reel, be enraptured</span><br /><br /><span class="word">by her love</span><br /><span class="heb">בְּ֝אַהֲבָתָ֗הּ</span> <span class="translit">(bə·’a·hă·ḇā·ṯāh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct | third person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_160.htm">Strong's 160: </a> </span><span class="str2">Love (noun)</span><br /><br /><span class="word">forever.</span><br /><span class="heb">תָמִֽיד׃</span> <span class="translit">(ṯā·mîḏ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Adverb<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_8548.htm">Strong's 8548: </a> </span><span class="str2">Continuance, constant, ellipt, the regular, sacrifice</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/proverbs/5-19.htm">Proverbs 5:19 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/proverbs/5-19.htm">Proverbs 5:19 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/proverbs/5-19.htm">Proverbs 5:19 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/proverbs/5-19.htm">Proverbs 5:19 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/proverbs/5-19.htm">Proverbs 5:19 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/proverbs/5-19.htm">Proverbs 5:19 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/proverbs/5-19.htm">Proverbs 5:19 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/proverbs/5-19.htm">Proverbs 5:19 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/proverbs/5-19.htm">Proverbs 5:19 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/proverbs/5-19.htm">Proverbs 5:19 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/proverbs/5-19.htm">OT Poetry: Proverbs 5:19 A loving doe and a graceful deer-- (Prov. 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