CANTIQUE DES CANTIQUES 3:1
Sur ma couche, pendant les nuits, J’ai cherché celui que mon cœur aime; Je l’ai cherché, et je ne l’ai point trouvé…This verse in the real world
In what words
- מִשְׁכָּבmishkâba bed (figuratively, a bier); abstractly, sleep; by euphemism, carnal intercourse
- אָהַבʼâhabto have affection for (sexually or otherwise)
- לַיִלlayilproperly, a twist (away of the light), i.e. night; figuratively, adversity
- בָּקַשׁbâqashto search out (by any method, specifically in worship or prayer); by implication, to striv
- נֶפֶשׁnepheshproperly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in
The Hebrew and Greek words standing behind this verse. Word-by-word alignment comes with the interlinear.