Parallel Verses

Lexham Expanded Bible

{May you kiss me} {passionately with your lips}, for your love [is] better than wine.

New American Standard Bible

May he kiss me with the kisses of his mouth!
For your love is better than wine.

King James Version

Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love is better than wine.

Holman Bible

W Oh, that he would kiss me with the kisses of his mouth!
For your love is more delightful than wine.

International Standard Version

Let him kiss me over and over again! Your love is better than wine.

A Conservative Version

Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth, for thy love is better than wine.

American Standard Version

Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth; For thy love is better than wine.

Amplified

(The Shulammite Bride)
“May he kiss me with the kisses of his mouth!” [Solomon arrives, she turns to him, saying,]
“For your love is better than wine.

Bible in Basic English

Let him give me the kisses of his mouth: for his love is better than wine.

Darby Translation

Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth; For thy love is better than wine.

Julia Smith Translation

He shall kiss me from the kisses of his mouth: for thy good breasts are above wine.

King James 2000

Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for your love is better than wine.

Modern King James verseion

Let Him kiss me with the kisses of His mouth; for Your love is better than wine.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

For thy love is more pleasant than wine,

NET Bible

The Beloved to Her Lover: Oh, how I wish you would kiss me passionately! For your lovemaking is more delightful than wine.

New Heart English Bible

Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth; for your love is better than wine.

The Emphasized Bible

SHELet him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth! THEYFor better are thy caresses than wine:

Webster

Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love is better than wine.

World English Bible

Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth; for your love is better than wine.

Youngs Literal Translation

Let him kiss me with kisses of his mouth, For better are thy loves than wine.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
נשׁק 
Nashaq 
Usage: 35

me with the kisses
נשׁיקה 
N@shiyqah 
Usage: 2

דּד דּוד 
Dowd 
Usage: 61

Verse Info

Context Readings

Maiden's Soliloquy

1 The Song of Songs, which [is] for Solomon. 2 {May you kiss me} {passionately with your lips}, for your love [is] better than wine. 3 As fragrance, {your perfumes} [are] {delightful}; your name is poured out {perfume}; therefore young women love you.

Cross References

Song of Songs 4:10

How beautiful is your love, my sister bride! How better is your love than wine, and the fragrance of your oils than any spice!

Psalm 63:3-5

Because your loyal love [is] better than life, my lips will praise you.

Song of Songs 1:4

Draw me after you, let us run! May the king bring me into his chambers! Let us be joyful and let us rejoice in you; let us extol your love more than wine. Rightly do they love you!

Genesis 27:26-27

Then his father Isaac said to him, "Come near and kiss me, my son."

Genesis 29:11

And Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice and wept.

Genesis 45:15

And he kissed all his brothers and wept upon them. And afterward his brothers spoke with him.

Psalm 2:12

Kiss the Son lest he be angry and you perish [on the] way, for his anger burns quickly. Blessed are all [who] take refuge in him.

Psalm 36:7

How precious [is] your loyal love, O God, and the children of humankind take refuge in the shadow of your wings.

Song of Songs 2:4

He brought me to the house of the wine, and his intention [was] love toward me.

Song of Songs 5:16

{His mouth} [is] sweet, and he is altogether desirable. This [is] my beloved; this [is] my friend, {O young women of Jerusalem}.

Song of Songs 7:6

How beautiful you are and how pleasant, O loved one in the delights!

Song of Songs 7:9

Your palate [is] like the best wine that goes down for my beloved, smoothly gliding over my lips and teeth.

Song of Songs 7:12

Let us rise early [to go] to the vineyards; let us see whether the vine has budded, [whether] the grape blossom has opened, and [whether] the pomegranates {are in bloom}; there I will give my love to you.

Song of Songs 8:1-2

{How I wish that you were my little brother}, [who] nursed {upon my mother's breasts}! [If] {I met you outside}, I would kiss you, {and no one would despise me}!

Isaiah 25:6

And on this mountain Yahweh of hosts will make for all peoples a {rich feast}, a feast of aged wines, fat filled with marrow, filtered aged wine.

Isaiah 55:1-2

"Ho! Everyone thirsty, come to the waters! And whoever has no money, come, buy and eat, and come, buy without money, wine and milk without price!

Matthew 26:26

Now [while] they were eating Jesus took bread and, [after] giving thanks, he broke [it], and giving [it] to the disciples, he said, "Take, eat, this is my body."

Luke 15:20

And he set out [and] came to his own father. But [while] he was still a long way away, his father saw him and had compassion, and ran {and embraced him} and kissed him.

Acts 21:7

And [when] we had completed the voyage from Tyre, we arrived at Ptolemais. And [after we] greeted the brothers, we stayed one day with them.

1 Peter 5:14

Greet one another with a loving kiss. Peace to all of you who are in Christ.

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