KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Song of Solomon 4:14–16
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Song of Solomon 4:14
14Spikenard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices:
14Spikenard and Saffron, Calamus and Cynamom, with all trees of Frankincense, Mirrhe and Aloes, with all the chiefe spices.
Song of Solomon 4:15
15A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon.
15A fountaine of gardens, a well of liuing waters, and streames from Lebanon.
Song of Solomon 4:16
16¶ Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat his pleasant fruits.
16¶ Awake, O Northwinde, and come thou South, blow vpon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out: let my beloued come into his garden, and eate his pleasant fruits.
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DEFINED WORDS
Song of Solomon 4:14
A costly aromatic plant and the fragrant ointment made from it.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The fragrant saffron crocus or spice named among costly aromatics.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The sweet aromatic substance or plant called calamus in the KJV; the entry does not impose a disputed modern species identification.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The fragrant aromatic bark or spice called cinnamon in the KJV.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Wholly, entirely, or altogether; every one or the whole amount, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
MEANING IN THIS VERSE
frankincense
A fragrant gum-resin used as incense, perfume, a gift, or an offering.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A bitter, strongly fragrant gum-resin used as a spice, perfume, medicinal mixture, gift, or burial preparation.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A fragrant wood or aromatic substance named with myrrh and other spices; the KJV does not identify its exact botanical source.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Principal, foremost, highest in rank or importance; also a leader.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Aromatic substances used for fragrance, anointing, burial, seasoning, or trade.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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Song of Solomon 4:15
Enclosed or cultivated places for plants, herbs, or fruit.
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In a good, right, or healthy manner or condition; also a deep source of water, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Alive or having life; as a noun, one's means of support or possessions.
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Flowing bodies or currents of water.
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Song of Solomon 4:16
To cease sleeping, or to arouse from sleep or inactivity.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
The northern direction, side, quarter, or region named by the verse.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Breath; power of respiration. Air in motion with any degree of velocity, indefinitely; a current of air.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
To strike, sound, breathe, or move with wind; also a stroke or gust.
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An enclosed or cultivated place for plants, herbs, or fruit.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Aromatic substances used for fragrance, anointing, burial, seasoning, or trade.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To move or run continuously as water; figuratively, to stream, gather, or come abundantly.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Outside, away from within, forth, absent, or no longer in a stated condition.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To allow or permit; in older KJV use, also to hinder or restrain.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
To take food into the body; to consume, devour, or waste away, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Cheerful; enlivening. Giving pleasure; gratifying.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
The produce of a plant; offspring; or the result and effect of conduct, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
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From verse 14
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Open the full verse study23Take thou also unto thee principal spices, of pure myrrh five hundred shekels, and of sweet cinnamon half so much, even two hundred and fifty shekels, and of sweet calamus two hundred and fifty shekels,
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Open the full verse study6Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, I will get me to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense.
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Open the full verse study6¶ Who is this that cometh out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the merchant?
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Open the full verse study2My beloved is gone down into his garden, to the beds of spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies.
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Open the full verse study19Dan also and Javan going to and fro occupied in thy fairs: bright iron, cassia, and calamus, were in thy market.
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Open the full verse study17I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
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Open the full verse study12¶ While the king sitteth at his table, my spikenard sendeth forth the smell thereof.
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Open the full verse study10And she gave the king an hundred and twenty talents of gold, and of spices very great store, and precious stones: there came no more such abundance of spices as these which the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon.
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Open the full verse study9And she gave the king an hundred and twenty talents of gold, and of spices great abundance, and precious stones: neither was there any such spice as the queen of Sheba gave king Solomon.
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Open the full verse study11And their father Israel said unto them, If it must be so now, do this; take of the best fruits in the land in your vessels, and carry down the man a present, a little balm, and a little honey, spices, and myrrh, nuts, and almonds:
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Open the full verse study39And there came also Nicodemus, which at the first came to Jesus by night, and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound weight.
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Open the full verse study1AND when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him.
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Open the full verse study6As the valleys are they spread forth, as gardens by the river’s side, as the trees of lign aloes which the Lord hath planted, and as cedar trees beside the waters.
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Open the full verse study13And cinnamon, and odours, and ointments, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and slaves, and souls of men.
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Open the full verse study1I AM come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved.
From verse 15
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Open the full verse study10Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.
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Open the full verse study14But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
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Open the full verse study38He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.
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Open the full verse study13For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
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Open the full verse study6I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees:
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Open the full verse study13O Lord, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be ashamed, and they that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the Lord, the fountain of living waters.
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Open the full verse study13Therefore thus saith the Lord; Ask ye now among the heathen, who hath heard such things: the virgin of Israel hath done a very horrible thing.
14Will a man leave the snow of Lebanon which cometh from the rock of the field? or shall the cold flowing waters that come from another place be forsaken?
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Open the full verse study8They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures.
9For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light.
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Open the full verse study4There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High.
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Open the full verse study1AND he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.
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Open the full verse study12A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.
From verse 16
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Open the full verse study2My beloved is gone down into his garden, to the beds of spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies.
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Open the full verse study1I AM come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved.
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Open the full verse study5Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
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Open the full verse study1AND when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.
2And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.
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Open the full verse study9Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord God; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.
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Open the full verse study13Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; camphire, with spikenard,
14Spikenard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices:
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Open the full verse study12Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my loves.
13The mandrakes give a smell, and at our gates are all manner of pleasant fruits, new and old, which I have laid up for thee, O my beloved.
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Open the full verse study12That ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory.
13For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.
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Open the full verse study10Now he that ministereth seed to the sower both minister bread for your food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;)
11Being enriched in every thing to all bountifulness, which causeth through us thanksgiving to God.
12For the administration of this service not only supplieth the want of the saints, but is abundant also by many thanksgivings unto God;
13Whiles by the experiment of this ministration they glorify God for your professed subjection unto the gospel of Christ, and for your liberal distribution unto them, and unto all men;
14And by their prayer for you, which long after you for the exceeding grace of God in you.
15Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift.
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Open the full verse study31¶ And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they spake the word of God with boldness.
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Open the full verse study9For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;
10That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
11Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;
12Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light:
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Open the full verse study6The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits.
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Open the full verse study20Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,
21Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
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Open the full verse study9¶ Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the Lord; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon?
10Art thou not it which hath dried the sea, the waters of the great deep; that hath made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over?
11Therefore the redeemed of the Lord shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their head: they shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and mourning shall flee away.
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Open the full verse study1OH that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence,
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Open the full verse study8The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.
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Open the full verse study8Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk.
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Open the full verse study10When Jesus understood it, he said unto them, Why trouble ye the woman? for she hath wrought a good work upon me.
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Open the full verse study12For in that she hath poured this ointment on my body, she did it for my burial.
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Open the full verse study9And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment;
10That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ;
11Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.
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Open the full verse study16That I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Ghost.
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Open the full verse study28When therefore I have performed this, and have sealed to them this fruit, I will come by you into Spain.
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Open the full verse study4Draw me, we will run after thee: the king hath brought me into his chambers: we will be glad and rejoice in thee, we will remember thy love more than wine: the upright love thee.
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Open the full verse study3As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.
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Open the full verse study12My vineyard, which is mine, is before me: thou, O Solomon, must have a thousand, and those that keep the fruit thereof two hundred.
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Open the full verse study9But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
10Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
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Open the full verse study18But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.
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