Songs 5:11
Good News Translation
His face is bronzed and smooth; his hair is wavy, black as a raven.

New Revised Standard Version
His head is the finest gold; his locks are wavy, black as a raven.

Contemporary English Version
His head is purest gold; his hair is wavy, black as a raven.

New American Bible
His head is gold, pure gold, his hair like palm fronds, as black as a raven.

Douay-Rheims Bible
His head is as the finest gold: his locks as branches of palm trees, black as a raven.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

head

Daniel 2:37,38 Thou art a king of kings: and the God of heaven hath given thee a kingdom, and strength, and power, and glory: . . .

Ephesians 1:21,22 Above all principality and power and virtue and dominion and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come. . . .

his locks

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

Daniel 7:9 I beheld till thrones were placed, and the ancient of days sat: his garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like clean wool: his throne like flames of fire: the wheels of it like a burning fire.

Revelation 1:14 And his head and his hairs were white as white wool and as snow. And his eyes were as a flame of fire:

Context
The Bride and Her Beloved
10My beloved is white and ruddy, chosen out of thousands. 11His head is as the finest gold: his locks as branches of palm trees, black as a raven.12His eyes as doves upon brooks of waters, which are washed with milk, and sit beside the plentiful streams.…
Cross References
Songs 5:2
I sleep, and my heart watcheth: the voice of my beloved knocking: Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is full of dew, and my locks of the drops of the nights.

Songs 5:12
His eyes as doves upon brooks of waters, which are washed with milk, and sit beside the plentiful streams.

Songs 5:10
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