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Bible in Basic English
Sweet is the smell of your perfumes; your name is as perfume running out; so the young girls give you their love.
New American Standard Bible
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Therefore the
King James Version
Because of the savour of thy good ointments thy name is as ointment poured forth, therefore do the virgins love thee.
Holman Bible
your name is perfume poured out.
No wonder young women
International Standard Version
The fragrance of your perfumed oil is wonderful. Your name is perfume poured out. Therefore the young women love you.
A Conservative Version
Thine oils have a good fragrance. Thy name is oil poured forth. Therefore the virgins love thee.
American Standard Version
Thine oils have a goodly fragrance; Thy name is as oil poured forth; Therefore do the virgins love thee.
Amplified
“The aroma of your oils is fragrant and pleasing;
Your name is perfume poured out;
Therefore the maidens love you.
Darby Translation
Thine ointments savour sweetly; Thy name is an ointment poured forth: Therefore do the virgins love thee.
Julia Smith Translation
To the odor of the good ointments thy name shall be poured forth an ointment; for this, the maidens loved thee.
King James 2000
Because of the fragrance of your good ointments your name is as ointment poured forth, therefore do the virgins love you.
Lexham Expanded Bible
As fragrance, {your perfumes} [are] {delightful}; your name is poured out {perfume}; therefore young women love you.
Modern King James verseion
For Your ointments have a lovely fragrance; Your name is as oil poured out; therefore the virgins love You.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
and that because of the good and pleasant savour. Thy name is sweet smelling ointment when it is shed forth; therefore do the maidens love thee.
NET Bible
The fragrance of your colognes is delightful; your name is like the finest perfume. No wonder the young women adore you!
New Heart English Bible
Your oils have a pleasing fragrance. Your name is oil poured forth, therefore the virgins love you.
The Emphasized Bible
Like the fragrance of thy precious oils, Oil poured out, is thy name, For this cause, virgins love thee.
Webster
Because of the savor of thy good ointments thy name is as ointment poured forth, therefore do the virgins love thee.
World English Bible
Your oils have a pleasing fragrance. Your name is oil poured forth, therefore the virgins love you.
Youngs Literal Translation
For fragrance are thy perfumes good. Perfume emptied out -- thy name, Therefore have virgins loved thee!
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Song of Solomon 1:3
Verse Info
Context Readings
Maiden's Soliloquy
2 Let him give me the kisses of his mouth: for his love is better than wine. 3 Sweet is the smell of your perfumes; your name is as perfume running out; so the young girls give you their love. 4 Take me to you, and we will go after you: the king has taken me into his house. We will be glad and full of joy in you, we will give more thought to your love than to wine: rightly are they your lovers.
Names
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 7:1
A good name is better than oil of great price, and the day of death than the day of birth.
Psalm 45:14
She will come before the king in robes of needlework; the virgins in her train will come before you.
Song of Songs 4:10
How fair is your love, my sister! How much better is your love than wine, and the smell of your oils than any perfume!
John 12:3
Then Mary, taking a pound of perfumed oil of great value, put it on the feet of Jesus and made them dry with her hair: and the house became full of the smell of the perfume.
Exodus 30:23-28
Take the best spices, five hundred shekels' weight of liquid myrrh, and of sweet cinnamon half as much, that is, two hundred and fifty shekels, and two hundred and fifty shekels of sweet calamus,
Exodus 33:12
And Moses said to the Lord, See, you say to me, Be this people's guide on their journey, but you have not made clear to me whom you will send with me. But you have said, I have knowledge of you by name, and you have grace in my eyes.
Exodus 33:19
And he said, I will make all the light of my being come before you, and will make clear to you what I am; I will be kind to those to whom I will be kind, and have mercy on those on whom I will have mercy.
Exodus 34:5-7
And the Lord came down in the cloud and took his place by the side of Moses, and Moses gave worship to the name of the Lord.
Psalm 45:7-8
You have been a lover of righteousness and a hater of evil: and so God, your God, has put the oil of joy on your head, lifting you high over all other kings.
Psalm 89:15-16
Happy are the people who have knowledge of the holy cry: the light of your face, O Lord, will be shining on their way.
Proverbs 27:9
Oil and perfume make glad the heart, and the wise suggestion of a friend is sweet to the soul.
Song of Songs 3:6
Who is this coming out of the waste places like pillars of smoke, perfumed with sweet spices, with all the spices of the trader?
Song of Songs 5:5
I got up to let my loved one in; and my hands were dropping with myrrh, and my fingers with liquid myrrh, on the lock of the door.
Song of Songs 5:13
His face is as beds of spices, giving out perfumes of every sort; his lips like lilies, dropping liquid myrrh.
Song of Songs 6:8
There are sixty queens, and eighty servant-wives, and young girls without number.
Isaiah 9:6-7
For to us a child has come, to us a son is given; and the government has been placed in his hands; and he has been named Wise Guide, Strong God, Father for ever, Prince of Peace.
Isaiah 61:3
To give them a fair head-dress in place of dust, the oil of joy in place of the clothing of grief, praise in place of sorrow; so that they may be named trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, and so that he may have glory.
Jeremiah 23:5-6
See, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will give to David a true Branch, and he will be ruling as king, acting wisely, doing what is right, and judging uprightly in the land.
Matthew 1:21-23
And she will give birth to a son; and you will give him the name Jesus; for he will give his people salvation from their sins.
Matthew 25:1
Then the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins, the friends of the bride, who took their lights, and went out with the purpose of meeting the husband.
2 Corinthians 2:14-16
But praise be to God who makes us strong to overcome in Christ, and makes clear through us in every place the value of the knowledge of him.
2 Corinthians 11:2
For I have a very great care for you: because you have been married by me to one husband, and it is my desire to give you completely holy to Christ.
Philippians 2:9-10
For this reason God has put him in the highest place and has given to him the name which is greater than every name;
Philippians 4:18
I have all things and more than enough: I am made full, having had from Epaphroditus the things which came from you, a perfume of a sweet smell, an offering well pleasing to God.
Revelation 14:4
These are they who have not made themselves unclean with women; for they are virgins. These are they who go after the Lamb wherever he goes. These were taken from among men to be the first fruits to God and to the Lamb.