We rejoice and delight in you, we will praise your love more than wine. (Song of Songs 1:4)

There are friends with the beloved - daughters of Jerusalem - who occasionally join in the song. Here they encourage the lovers.

This love is דֶיךָ or dowd. In every other Hebrew scripture - but one - it is translated as uncle. In the Song of Songs it is rendered as love this one time and as beloved every other time. Once in Proverbs it is also used for love: "Come, let us drink our fill of love until morning; Let us delight ourselves with caresses." (Proverbs 7:18)

Dowd is derived from a word meaning to boil. This is a very hot love.