Song of Solomon 3:2
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Berean Study Bible
I will arise now and go about the city, through the streets and squares. I will seek the one I love. So I sought him but did not find him.

Young's Literal Translation
—Pray, let me rise, and go round the city, In the streets and in the broad places, I seek{.htm" title="{"> him whom my soul hath loved!—I sought him, and I found him not.

King James Bible
I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.

Hebrew
I will arise
אָק֨וּמָה (’ā·qū·māh)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect Cohortative - first person common singular
Strong's 6965: To arise, stand up, stand

now
נָּ֜א (nā)
Interjection
Strong's 4994: I pray', 'now', 'then'

and go about
וַאֲסוֹבְבָ֣ה (wa·’ă·sō·wḇ·ḇāh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Conjunctive imperfect Cohortative - first person common singular
Strong's 5437: To turn about, go around, surround

the city,
בָעִ֗יר (ḇā·‘îr)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 5892: Excitement

through the streets
בַּשְּׁוָקִים֙ (baš·šə·wā·qîm)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 7784: A street

and squares.
וּבָ֣רְחֹב֔וֹת (ū·ḇā·rə·ḥō·ḇō·wṯ)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 7339: A broad open place, plaza

I will seek
אֲבַקְשָׁ֕ה (’ă·ḇaq·šāh)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect Cohortative - first person common singular
Strong's 1245: To search out, to strive after

the one
אֵ֥ת (’êṯ)
Direct object marker
Strong's 853: Untranslatable mark of the accusative case

I
נַפְשִׁ֑י (nap̄·šî)
Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 5315: A soul, living being, life, self, person, desire, passion, appetite, emotion

love.
שֶׁאָהֲבָ֖ה (še·’ā·hă·ḇāh)
Pronoun - relative | Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 157: To have affection f

So I sought him
בִּקַּשְׁתִּ֖יו (biq·qaš·tîw)
Verb - Piel - Perfect - first person common singular | third person masculine singular
Strong's 1245: To search out, to strive after

but did not
וְלֹ֥א (wə·lō)
Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

find him.
מְצָאתִֽיו׃ (mə·ṣā·ṯîw)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular | third person masculine singular
Strong's 4672: To come forth to, appear, exist, to attain, find, acquire, to occur, meet, be present

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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