Song 8:6 | TNotes | STEP | 8:6 seal over your heart ... on your arm: In ancient Israel a seal was used for identification or to show ownership by pressing the face of a ring into soft wax. The wife wants her husband to mark her with his identity, privately upon her heart, and publicly upon her arm as well. • love is as strong as death: Though death is inevitable, the bond of love is resolute, unshakable, and broken only in death. • The energy of jealousy moves to protect an exclusive relationship such as that of husband and wife or between God and his people (Nah 1:2 ; Zech 1:14-17 ). • as the grave: Hebrew as Sheol. In the Old Testament, Sheol is the abode of the dead. It is not necessarily associated with punishment.

bNah 1:2►

cZech 1:14-17►

‏ Song of Solomon 8:6

8:6 ^a seal over your heart ... on your arm: In ancient Israel a seal was used for identification or to show ownership by pressing the face of a ring into soft wax. The wife wants her husband to mark her with his identity, privately upon her heart, and publicly upon her arm as well.

• love is as strong as death: Though death is inevitable, the bond of love is resolute, unshakable, and broken only in death.

• The energy of jealousy moves to protect an exclusive relationship such as that of husband and wife or between God and his people (Nah 1:2 ^b; Zech 1:14-17 ^c).

• as the grave: Hebrew as Sheol. In the Old Testament, Sheol is the abode of the dead. It is not necessarily associated with punishment.