Cantar de los Cantares 3:1
POR las noches busqué en mi lecho al que ama mi alma: busquélo, y no lo hallé.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.