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Song of Solomon 5

Song of Sol. 5:13 KJV (With Strong’s)

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His cheeks
lchiy (Hebrew #3895)
the cheek (from its fleshiness); hence, the jaw-bone
KJV usage: cheek (bone), jaw (bone).
Pronounce: lekh-ee'
Origin: from an unused root meaning to be soft
are as a bed
`aruwgah (Hebrew #6170)
feminine passive participle of 6165; something piled up (as if (figuratively) raised by mental aspiration), i.e. a paterre
KJV usage: bed, furrow.
Pronounce: ar-oo-gaw'
Origin: or iarugah {ar-oo-gaw'}
of spices
besem (Hebrew #1314)
from the same as 1313; fragrance; by implication, spicery; also the balsam plant
KJV usage: smell, spice, sweet (odour).
Pronounce: beh'-sem
Origin: or bosem {bo'-sem}
, as γsweet
merqach (Hebrew #4840)
a spicy herb
KJV usage: X sweet.
Pronounce: mer-kawkh'
Origin: from 7543
flowers
migdal (Hebrew #4026)
from 1431; a tower (from its size or height); by analogy, a rostrum; figuratively, a (pyramidal) bed of flowers
KJV usage: castle, flower, tower. Compare the names following.
Pronounce: mig-dawl'
Origin: also (in plural) feminine migdalah {mig-daw- law'}
: his lips
saphah (Hebrew #8193)
probably from 5595 or 8192 through the idea of termination (compare 5490); the lip (as a natural boundary); by implication, language; by analogy, a margin (of a vessel, water, cloth, etc.)
KJV usage: band, bank, binding, border, brim, brink, edge, language, lip, prating, ((sea-))shore, side, speech, talk, (vain) words.
Pronounce: saw-faw'
Origin: or (in dual and plural) sepheth {sef-eth'}
like lilies
shuwshan (Hebrew #7799)
or shoshan {sho- shawn'}; and (feminine) showshannah {sho-shan-naw'}; from 7797; a lily (from its whiteness), as a flower of arch. ornament; also a (straight) trumpet (from the tubular shape)
KJV usage: lily, Shoshannim.
Pronounce: shoo-shan'
Origin: or showshan {sho-shawn'}
, dropping
nataph (Hebrew #5197)
to ooze, i.e. distil gradually; by implication, to fall in drops; figuratively, to speak by inspiration
KJV usage: drop(-ping), prophesy(-et).
Pronounce: naw-taf'
Origin: a primitive root
sweet smelling
`abar (Hebrew #5674)
to cross over; used very widely of any transition (literal or figurative; transitive, intransitive, intensive, causative); specifically, to cover (in copulation)
KJV usage: alienate, alter, X at all, beyond, bring (over, through), carry over, (over-)come (on, over), conduct (over), convey over, current, deliver, do away, enter, escape, fail, gender, get over, (make) go (away, beyond, by, forth, his way, in, on, over, through), have away (more), lay, meddle, overrun, make partition, (cause to, give, make to, over) pass(-age, along, away, beyond, by, -enger, on, out, over, through), (cause to, make) + proclaim(-amation), perish, provoke to anger, put away, rage, + raiser of taxes, remove, send over, set apart, + shave, cause to (make) sound, X speedily, X sweet smelling, take (away), (make to) transgress(-or), translate, turn away, (way-)faring man, be wrath.
Pronounce: aw-bar'
Origin: a primitive root
myrrh
more (Hebrew #4753)
from 4843; myrrh (as distilling in drops, and also as bitter)
KJV usage: myrrh.
Pronounce: mor
Origin: or mowr {more}
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or, towers of perfumes.

More on:

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Bed; Bedstead,
Lily,
Myrrh,
Spices

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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cheeks.
Song of Sol. 1:10• 10Thy cheeks are comely with rows of jewels, thy neck with chains of gold. (Song of Sol. 1:10)
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Isa. 50:6• 6I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting. (Isa. 50:6)
as a.
Psa. 4:6‑7• 6There be many that say, Who will show us any good? Lord, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us.
 7Thou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their corn and their wine increased. (Psa. 4:6‑7)
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Psa. 27:4• 4One thing have I desired of the Lord, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to inquire in his temple. (Psa. 27:4)
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Psa. 89:15• 15Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O Lord, in the light of thy countenance. (Psa. 89:15)
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Rev. 21:23• 23And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof. (Rev. 21:23)
sweet flowers.
or, towers of perfumes.
Song of Sol. 3:6• 6Who is this that cometh out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the merchant? (Song of Sol. 3:6)
his lips.
Song of Sol. 4:11• 11Thy lips, O my spouse, drop as the honeycomb: honey and milk are under thy tongue; and the smell of thy garments is like the smell of Lebanon. (Song of Sol. 4:11)
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Psa. 45:2• 2Thou art fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into thy lips: therefore God hath blessed thee for ever. (Psa. 45:2)
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Isa. 50:4• 4The Lord God hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned. (Isa. 50:4)
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Luke 4:22• 22And all bare him witness, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth. And they said, Is not this Joseph's son? (Luke 4:22)
dropping.
Song of Sol. 5:5• 5I rose up to open to my beloved; and my hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers with sweet smelling myrrh, upon the handles of the lock. (Song of Sol. 5:5)
• The cheeks speak of beauty and attractiveness. (“Canticle 4: The Restoration of Love” by H. Smith)
• His lips are likened to lilies dropping sweet-smelling myrrh. The lily may speak of purity and the sweet-smelling myrrh of grace. (“Canticle 4: The Restoration of Love” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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His cheeks are as a bed of spices, raised beds of sweet plants; His lips lilies, dropping liquid myrrh.