Quote:

and what a weasel word is that but...
(tho' I am partial to a pert but of any colour)
;]



The NRSV, on the other hand, says:

I am black and beautiful, O daughters of Jerusalem, like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Solomon.

http://bible.oremus.org/browser.cgi?passage=song+of+solomon+1

Is there a Hebrew scholar in the house?

Bingley