Thematic Bible


Thematic Bible



Your land will be full of olive-trees, but there will be no oil for the comfort of your body; for your olive-tree will give no fruit. Verse ConceptsAnointing With OilOilOrchardsOlive Trees

So take a bath, and, after rubbing your body with sweet oil, put on your best robe, and go down to the grain-floor; but do not let him see you till he has come to the end of his meal. Verse ConceptsAnointing, Social CustomAnointing With OilOintmentPerfumeClothing OneselfOuter GarmentsAnointing OneselfClean FacesEating And DrinkingPeople Made Known

Now every girl, when her turn came, had to go in to King Ahasuerus, after undergoing, for a space of twelve months, what was ordered by the law for the women (for this was the time necessary for making them clean, that is, six months with oil of myrrh and six months with sweet perfumes and such things as are needed for making women clean): Verse ConceptsMyrrhMarital SexFive Months And MoreOne YearMarital Sex BetweenYoung LadiesEtiquetteMonthsWomen's BeautyWomen's Rolesmakeupprocess





He who keeps secret the secret of his friend, will get himself a name for good faith. Verse Conceptsnagging

Let your clothing be white at all times, and let not your head be without oil. Verse ConceptsWhite And Bright ClothesAnointing OneselfWhite ClothsGarmentsBeing Happy And Enjoying LifeEnjoying Life

Sweet is the smell of your perfumes; your name is as perfume running out; so the young girls give you their love. Verse ConceptsMen And Women Who Loved

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How fair is your love, my sister! How much better is your love than wine, and the smell of your oils than any perfume! Verse ConceptsLove And WineA Time For Love

And you went to Melech with oil and much perfume, and you sent your representatives far off, and went as low as the underworld. Verse ConceptsFalse GodsAnointing, Social CustomenvoyPerfumeAttraction

Drinking wine in basins, rubbing themselves with the best oils; but they have no grief for the destruction of Joseph. Verse ConceptsAnointing, Social CustomOintmentDrinking WineAnointing OneselfNot Mourning

You will put in seed, but you will not get in the grain; you will be crushing olives, but your bodies will not be rubbed with the oil; and you will get in the grapes, but you will have no wine. Verse ConceptsCrushingGrapesHarvestOilOlivesSowing And ReapingSowing In VainNot Drinking WineAnointing OneselfNot Reaping What You SowTreading GrapesReaping What You Sow

How fair is your love, my sister! How much better is your love than wine, and the smell of your oils than any perfume! Verse ConceptsLove And WineA Time For Love

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. Verse ConceptsSweet OdoursFeetAnointing, Social CustomAnointing With OilGuestsHairsPerfumeSmellsAdoration, Of ChristAdmirationAnointed By PeopleExpensiveOther References To HairPure ThingsWeights Of Other ThingsHair

You are all fair, my love; there is no mark on you. Come with me from Lebanon, my bride, with me from Lebanon; see from the top of Amana, from the top of Senir and Hermon, from the places of the lions, from the mountains of the leopards. You have taken away my heart, my sister, my bride; you have taken away my heart, with one look you have taken it, with one chain of your neck! read more.
How fair is your love, my sister! How much better is your love than wine, and the smell of your oils than any perfume! Your lips are dropping honey; honey and milk are under your tongue; and the smell of your clothing is like the smell of Lebanon. A garden walled-in is my sister, my bride; a garden shut up, a spring of water stopped. The produce of the garden is pomegranates; with all the best fruits, henna and spikenard, Spikenard and safron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices. You are a fountain of gardens, a spring of living waters, and flowing waters from Lebanon. Be awake, O north wind; and come, O south, blowing on my garden, so that its spices may come out. Let my loved one come into his garden, and take of his good fruits.

Now every girl, when her turn came, had to go in to King Ahasuerus, after undergoing, for a space of twelve months, what was ordered by the law for the women (for this was the time necessary for making them clean, that is, six months with oil of myrrh and six months with sweet perfumes and such things as are needed for making women clean): Verse ConceptsMyrrhMarital SexFive Months And MoreOne YearMarital Sex BetweenYoung LadiesEtiquetteMonthsWomen's BeautyWomen's Rolesmakeupprocess

Sweet is the smell of your perfumes; your name is as perfume running out; so the young girls give you their love. Verse ConceptsMen And Women Who Loved

How fair is your love, my sister! How much better is your love than wine, and the smell of your oils than any perfume! Verse ConceptsLove And WineA Time For Love

Drinking wine in basins, rubbing themselves with the best oils; but they have no grief for the destruction of Joseph. Verse ConceptsAnointing, Social CustomOintmentDrinking WineAnointing OneselfNot Mourning

And Hezekiah was glad at their coming and let them see all his store of wealth, the silver and the gold and the spices and the oil of great price, and the house of his arms, and everything there was in his stores; there was nothing in all his house or his kingdom which Hezekiah did not let them see. Verse ConceptsGoldHerbs And SpicesPride, Examples OfPride, OriginArmoryFragranceThings RevealedTaking Mixed Metalscredibility

Dead flies make the oil of the perfumer give out an evil smell; more valued is a little wisdom than the great glory of the foolish. Verse ConceptsFliesflyingbugs


And while he was in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, seated at table, there came a woman with a bottle of perfumed oil of great price; and when the bottle was broken she put the perfume on his head. But some of them were angry among themselves, saying, For what purpose has this oil been wasted? We might have got more than three hundred pence for it, and given the money to the poor. And they said things against her among themselves.

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. But one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot (who was to give him up), said, Why was not this perfume traded for three hundred pence, and the money given to the poor?