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Text -- The Song of Songs 4:10-16 (NET)
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4:10 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 !
4:11 Your lips drip sweetness like the honeycomb , my bride , honey and milk are under your tongue . The fragrance of your garments is like the fragrance of Lebanon .
The Wedding Night: The Delightful Garden
4:12 The Lover to His Beloved: You are a locked garden , my sister , my bride ; you are an enclosed spring , a sealed-up fountain .
4:13 Your shoots are a royal garden full of pomegranates with choice fruits : henna with nard ,
4:14 nard and saffron ; calamus and cinnamon with every kind of spice , myrrh and aloes with all the finest spices .
4:15 You are a garden spring , a well of fresh water flowing down from Lebanon .
4:16 The Beloved to Her Lover: Awake , O north wind; come , O south wind ! Blow on my garden so that its fragrant spices may send out their sweet smell. May my beloved come into his garden and eat its delightful fruit !
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Personification |
Bridegroom |
Song |
Fellowship |
GARDEN |
Spikenard |
PALESTINE, 3 |
SAFFRON |
Honey |
Myrrh |
MARRIAGE |
Camphire |
Lebanon |
Aloes |
Anointing |
Symbols and Similitudes |
PERFUMES |
WINDS |
Church |
Ointment |
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NET Notes: Sos 4:12 The twin themes of the enclosed garden and sealed spring are highlighted by the wordplay (paronomasia) between the Hebrew expressions גּ...
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NET Notes: Sos 4:13 The noun פַּרְדֵּס (pardes, “garden, parkland, forest”) is a foreign loanword that o...
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NET Notes: Sos 4:14 Or “with all the finest balsam trees.” The Hebrew term בֹּשֶׂם (bosem) can refer either to the b...
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