Keil & Delitzsch Lutheran @keilanddelitzsch

Sol 7:4 4a Thy neck like an ivory tower. The article in חשּׁן may be that designating species (vid., under Sol 1:11); but, as at Sol 7:5 and Sol 4:4, it appears to be also here a definite tower which the comparison has in view: one covered externally with ivory tablets, a tower well known to all in and around Jerusalem, and visible far and...