KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Song of Solomon 5:13–14
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Song of Solomon 5:13
13His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as sweet flowers: his lips like lilies, dropping sweet smelling myrrh.
13‖His cheekes are as a bed of spices, as sweete flowers: his lippes like lillies, dropping sweete smelling myrrhe.
- Or, towers of perfumes.
Song of Solomon 5:14
14His hands are as gold rings set with the beryl: his belly is as bright ivory overlaid with sapphires.
14His hands are as gold rings set with the Berill: His belly is as bright iuorie, ouerlayd with Saphires.
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DEFINED WORDS
Song of Solomon 5:13
The side of the face below the eyes on each side.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
A place for rest or sleep; also the marriage bed or a place in which something lies. As a verb, to place or lie in a bed.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · 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)
Pleasing to the smell; fragrant. Pleasing to the eye; beautiful.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
The blossoms of plants; also things compared to blossoms for beauty or brief duration.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Similar or of the same kind; in the same manner; likely; or, as a verb, to please.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828
Flowering plants noted for their beauty.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Falling in globules; distilling; falling; laying aside; dismissing; quitting; suffering to rest or subside; variegating with ornaments like drops.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Perceiving a scent by the nose or giving off an odor.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
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)
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Song of Solomon 5:14
The end parts of the arms used for holding and working; also figures of power, possession, agency, or aid.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Circular bands or ornaments; also circular spaces or companies, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To place, fix, appoint, establish, or prescribe; also fixed or determined.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
A precious stone named among the stones of the breastplate and in other KJV descriptions.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Ivory used as a comparison for pale, smooth, or precious appearance.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Covered over or coated; in one KJV occurrence, smothered by lying upon.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Precious stones named in the breastplate and other KJV descriptions; the term does not require a disputed modern mineral identification.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
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From verse 13
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Open the full verse study10Thy cheeks are comely with rows of jewels, thy neck with chains of gold.
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Open the full verse study1I AM the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys.
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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 study6I 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.
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Open the full verse study22And 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?
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Open the full verse study4One 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.
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Open the full verse study6There be many that say, Who will shew 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.
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Open the full verse study2Thou art fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into thy lips: therefore God hath blessed thee for ever.
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Open the full verse study15Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O Lord, in the light of thy countenance.
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Open the full verse study23And 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.
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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 study11Thy 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.
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Open the full verse study5I 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.
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Open the full verse study4The 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.
From verse 14
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Open the full verse study10And they saw the God of Israel: and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness.
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Open the full verse study11¶ O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires.
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Open the full verse study6Thy right hand, O Lord, is become glorious in power: thy right hand, O Lord, hath dashed in pieces the enemy.
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Open the full verse study20And the fourth row a beryl, and an onyx, and a jasper: they shall be set in gold in their inclosings.
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Open the full verse study13And the fourth row, a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper: they were inclosed in ouches of gold in their inclosings.
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Open the full verse study16The appearance of the wheels and their work was like unto the colour of a beryl: and they four had one likeness: and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel.
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Open the full verse study26¶ And above the firmament that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone: and upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it.
27And I saw as the colour of amber, as the appearance of fire round about within it, from the appearance of his loins even upward, and from the appearance of his loins even downward, I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and it had brightness round about.
28As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord. And when I saw it, I fell upon my face, and I heard a voice of one that spake.
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Open the full verse study13¶ Behold, my servant shall deal prudently, he shall be exalted and extolled, and be very high.
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Open the full verse study7Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.
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Open the full verse study4The king’s strength also loveth judgment; thou dost establish equity, thou executest judgment and righteousness in Jacob.
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Open the full verse study2Thy navel is like a round goblet, which wanteth not liquor: thy belly is like an heap of wheat set about with lilies.
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Open the full verse study4Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob.
5Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.
6For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.
7But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to shame that hated us.
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