to fence
sug describes something fenced or enclosed, attested in a poetic comparison of the beloved’s breasts.
The attested form describes something fenced or enclosed in Song of Songs 7:3, where it occurs in a poetic comparison of the beloved’s breasts.
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Fenced or enclosed in poetic description · dominant
In Song of Songs 7:3, סוּגָה is a Qal passive feminine singular participle within the poetic description of the beloved’s breasts. The APB renders the verse, “Your two breasts are like two fawns, the twins of a gazelle,” but does not make this term’s specific contribution identifiable in its translation.
In the Anselm Project Bible: In Song of Songs 7:3, the APB gives the verse’s comparison of the breasts to “two fawns, the twins of a gazelle,” without a clearly identifiable word-for-word rendering of the term.