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# General Information:
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The man continues to describe the woman.
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# Your head is on you like Carmel
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Mount Carmel is higher than everything else around it. The man wants to look at the woman's head more than at anything else. Alternate translation: "Your head is on you like a crown, higher than anything else" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-simile]])
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# dark purple
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Other possible translations are 1) "dark black" or 2) "dark red."
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# The king is held captive by its tresses
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This can be translated in active form. Alternate translation: "Your hair that hangs down is so beautiful that the king is not able to stop admiring it" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-activepassive]])
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# tresses
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the clusters of hair that hang down from a woman's head
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