The Meaning of Proverbs 5:19 Explained

Proverbs 5:19

KJV: Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.

YLT: A hind of loves, and a roe of grace! Let her loves satisfy thee at all times, In her love magnify thyself continually.

Darby: As a lovely hind and a graceful roe, let her breasts satisfy thee at all times: be thou ravished continually with her love.

ASV: As a loving hind and a pleasant doe, Let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; And be thou ravished always with her love.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

[Let her be as] the loving  hind  and pleasant  roe;  let her breasts  satisfy  thee at all times;  and be thou ravished  always  with her love. 

What does Proverbs 5:19 Mean?

Chapter Summary: Proverbs 5

1  Solomon exhorts to wisdom
3  He shows the mischief of unfaithfulness and riot
15  He exhorts to contentedness, generosity, and chastity
22  The wicked are overtaken with their own sins

What do the individual words in Proverbs 5:19 mean?

[As a] deer of love and a doe graceful her breasts let satisfy you at all times with her love and be enraptured always
אַיֶּ֥לֶת אֲהָבִ֗ים וְֽיַעֲלַ֫ת־ חֵ֥ן דַּ֭דֶּיהָ יְרַוֻּ֣ךָ בְכָל־ עֵ֑ת בְּ֝אַהֲבָתָ֗הּ תִּשְׁגֶּ֥ה תָמִֽיד

אַיֶּ֥לֶת  [As  a]  deer 
Parse: Noun, feminine singular construct
Root: אַיָּלָה  
Sense: doe, deer, hind.
אֲהָבִ֗ים  of  love 
Parse: Noun, masculine plural
Root: אַהַב  
Sense: loves, amours (only in plural).
וְֽיַעֲלַ֫ת־  and  a  doe 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Noun, feminine singular construct
Root: יַעֲלָה  
Sense: female mountain goat.
חֵ֥ן  graceful 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular
Root: חֵן  
Sense: favour, grace, charm.
דַּ֭דֶּיהָ  her  breasts 
Parse: Noun, mdc, third person feminine singular
Root: דַּד  
Sense: breast, nipple, teat.
יְרַוֻּ֣ךָ  let  satisfy  you 
Parse: Verb, Piel, Imperfect, third person masculine plural, second person masculine singular
Root: רָוָה  
Sense: to be satiated or saturated, have or drink one’s fill.
בְכָל־  at  all 
Parse: Preposition-b, Noun, masculine singular construct
Root: כֹּל  
Sense: all, the whole.
עֵ֑ת  times 
Parse: Noun, common singular
Root: עֵת  
Sense: time.
בְּ֝אַהֲבָתָ֗הּ  with  her  love 
Parse: Preposition-b, Noun, feminine singular construct, third person feminine singular
Root: אַהֲבָה 
Sense: love.
תִּשְׁגֶּ֥ה  and  be  enraptured 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, second person masculine singular
Root: שָׁגָה  
Sense: to go astray, stray, err.
תָמִֽיד  always 
Parse: Adverb
Root: תָּמִיד  
Sense: continuity, perpetuity, to stretch.