Song Of Songs Chapter 1 verse 17 Holy Bible
The beams of our house are cedars, `And' our rafters are firs.
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Cedar-trees are the pillars of our house; and our boards are made of fir-trees.
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The beams of our houses are cedars, Our rafters are cypresses.
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The beams of our house are cedar, and our rafters of fir.
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The beams of our house are cedars. Our rafters are firs. Beloved
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The beams of our houses `are' cedars, Our rafters `are' firs, I `am' a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valleys!
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Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(17) Rafters.--Marg., galleries (comp. Song of Solomon 7:5); LXX., ?????????; Vulg., laquearia; Heb., rahit, from rahat = run, flow: hence (1) a gutter, from the water running down (Gen. 3:38); (2) a curl, from its flowing down the neck (Song of Solomon 7:5--Hebrews 6); (3) here rafters, or roof beams, from their spreading overhead. "Our couch was the green grass, the arches of our bower the cedar branches, and its rafters the firs." Others read rachitim,