Parallel Verses

Lexham Expanded Bible

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

New American Standard Bible

How beautiful is your love, my sister, my bride!
How much better is your love than wine,
And the fragrance of your oils
Than all kinds of spices!

King James Version

How fair is thy love, my sister, my spouse! how much better is thy love than wine! and the smell of thine ointments than all spices!

Holman Bible

How delightful your love is, my sister, my bride.
Your love is much better than wine,
and the fragrance of your perfume than any balsam.

International Standard Version

How beautiful is your love, my sister, my bride. How much better is your love than wine, and the fragrance of your perfume than all kinds of spices.

American Standard Version

How fair is thy love, my sister, my bride! How much better is thy love than wine! And the fragrance of thine oils than all manner of spices!

Amplified


“How beautiful is your love, my sister, my [promised] bride!
How much better is your love than wine,
And the fragrance of your oils
Than all kinds of balsam and spices.

Bible in Basic English

How fair is your love, my sister! How much better is your love than wine, and the smell of your oils than any perfume!

Darby Translation

How fair is thy love, my sister, my spouse! How much better is thy love than wine! And the fragrance of thine ointments than all spices!

Julia Smith Translation

How beautiful were thy breasts, my sister, O bride! how good were thy breasts above wine, and the odor of thine ointments above all spices.

King James 2000

How fair is your love, my sister, my spouse! how much better is your love than wine! and the fragrance of your perfume than all spices!

Modern King James verseion

How fair is your love, My sister, My spouse! How much better is your love than wine, and the smell of your ointments than all spices!

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

O how fair are thy breasts, my sister, my spouse? Thy breasts are more pleasant than wine, and the smell of thine ointments passeth all spices.

NET Bible

How delightful is your love, my sister, my bride! How much better is your love than wine; the fragrance of your perfume is better than any spice!

New Heart English Bible

How beautiful is your love, my sister, my bride. How much better is your love than wine. The fragrance of your perfumes than all manner of spices.

The Emphasized Bible

How beautiful are thy caresses, my sister, bride, - how much more delightful thy caresses, than wine, and the fragrance of thine oils, than all spices:

Webster

How fair is thy love, my sister, my spouse! how much better is thy love than wine! and the smell of thy ointments than all spices!

World English Bible

How beautiful is your love, my sister, my bride! How much better is your love than wine! The fragrance of your perfumes than all kinds of spices!

Youngs Literal Translation

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.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
יפה 
Yaphah 
Usage: 8

is thy love
דּד דּוד 
Dowd 
דּד דּוד 
Dowd 
Usage: 61
Usage: 61

my sister
אחות 
'achowth 
Usage: 114

my spouse
כּלּה 
Kallah 
Usage: 34

טוב 
Towb 
Usage: 31

יין 
Yayin 
Usage: 140

and the smell
ריח 
Reyach 
Usage: 58

שׁמן 
Shemen 
Usage: 193

Verse Info

Context Readings

The Mountains And Fragrance Of Lebanon

9 You have stolen (my) heart, my sister bride! You have stolen [my] heart with one [glance] from your eyes, with one ornament from your necklaces. 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! 11 Your lips drip nectar, [my] bride; honey and milk [are] under your lips; the scent of your garments [is] like the scent of Lebanon.


Cross References

Song of Songs 1:2-4

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

Song of Songs 1:12

While the king [was] on his couch, my nard gave its fragrance.

Song of Songs 3:6

What [is] this coming up from the desert like a column of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense from all the fragrant powders of the merchant?

Song of Songs 5:5

I myself arose to open to my beloved; my hands dripped with myrrh, my fingers with liquid myrrh upon the handles of the bolt.

Song of Songs 7:6

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

2 Corinthians 1:21-22

Now the one who establishes us together with you in Christ and who anoints us [is] God,

Galatians 5:22

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

Philippians 4:18

But I have received everything [in full] and have an abundance; {I am well supplied} [because] I received from Epaphroditus {what you had sent}, a fragrant offering, an acceptable sacrifice, well-pleasing to God.

Revelation 5:8

And when he took the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each one of whom had a harp and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.

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