Canticles 3:9
King Solomon hath made him a litter of the wood of Libanus:
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Ferculum fecit sibi rex Salomon de lignis Libani ;
- Septuagint (Swete)
- φορεῖον ἐποίησεν ἑαυτῷ ὁ βασιλεὺς Σαλωμὼν ⸆ ἀπὸ ξύλων τοῦ Λιβάνου·
- Hebrew (WLC)
- אַפִּרְי֗וֹן עָ֤שָׂה לוֹ֙ הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ שְׁלֹמֹ֔ה מֵעֲצֵ֖י הַלְּבָנֽוֹן
Haydock's commentary
Litter. Septuagint, to conduct his spouse with solemnity; or a throne; though it most probably denotes the bridal bed. (Calmet)
Hebrew apiron. Greek, phoreion.
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.