Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

{May you kiss me} {passionately with your lips}, 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.

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, that is Solomon's. 2 Let him kiss me with kisses of his mouth, For better are thy loves than wine. 3 For fragrance are thy perfumes good. Perfume emptied out -- thy name, Therefore have virgins loved thee!


Cross References

Song of Songs 4:10

How wonderful have been thy loves, my sister-spouse, How much better have been thy loves than wine, And the fragrance of thy perfumes than all spices.

Psalm 63:3-5

Because better is Thy kindness than life, My lips do praise Thee.

Song of Songs 1:4

Draw me: after thee we run, The king hath brought me into his inner chambers, We do joy and rejoice in thee, We mention thy loves more than wine, Uprightly they have loved thee!

Genesis 27:26-27

And Isaac his father saith to him, 'Come nigh, I pray thee, and kiss me, my son;'

Genesis 29:11

And Jacob kisseth Rachel, and lifteth up his voice, and weepeth,

Genesis 45:15

and he kisseth all his brethren, and weepeth over them; and afterwards have his brethren spoken with him.

Psalm 2:12

Kiss the Chosen One, lest He be angry, And ye lose the way, When His anger burneth but a little, O the happiness of all trusting in Him!

Psalm 36:7

How precious is Thy kindness, O God, And the sons of men In the shadow of Thy wings do trust.

Song of Songs 2:4

He hath brought me in unto a house of wine, And his banner over me is love,

Song of Songs 5:16

His mouth is sweetness -- and all of him desirable, This is my beloved, and this my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem!

Song of Songs 7:6

How fair and how pleasant hast thou been, O love, in delights.

Song of Songs 7:9

And thy palate as the good wine -- 'Flowing to my beloved in uprightness, Strengthening the lips of the aged!

Song of Songs 7:12

We lodge in the villages, we go early to the vineyards, We see if the vine hath flourished, The sweet smelling-flower hath opened. The pomegranates have blossomed, There do I give to thee my loves;

Song of Songs 8:1-2

Who doth make thee as a brother to me, Sucking the breasts of my mother? I find thee without, I kiss thee, Yea, they do not despise me,

Isaiah 25:6

And made hath Jehovah of Hosts, For all the peoples in this mount, A banquet of fat things, a banquet of preserved things, Fat things full of marrow, preserved things refined.

Isaiah 55:1-2

Ho, every thirsty one, come ye to the waters, And he who hath no money, Come ye, buy and eat, yea, come, buy Without money and without price, wine and milk.

Matthew 26:26

And while they were eating, Jesus having taken the bread, and having blessed, did brake, and was giving to the disciples, and said, 'Take, eat, this is my body;'

Luke 15:20

'And having risen, he went unto his own father, and he being yet far distant, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and having ran he fell upon his neck and kissed him;

Acts 21:7

And we, having finished the course, from Tyre came down to Ptolemais, and having saluted the brethren, we remained one day with them;

1 Peter 5:14

Salute ye one another in a kiss of love; peace to you all who are in Christ Jesus! Amen.

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