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The Bride

Song of Songs 1:12

In 11 translations

BSB
While the king was at his table, my perfume spread its fragrance.
KJV
¶ While the king sitteth at his table, my spikenard sendeth forth the smell thereof.
WEB
While the king sat at his table, my perfume spread its fragrance.
ASV
While the king sat at his table, My spikenard sent forth its fragrance.
LSV
While the king [is] in his circle, || My spikenard has given its fragrance.
YLT
While the king [is] in his circle, My spikenard hath given its fragrance.
DBY
While the king is at his table, My spikenard sendeth forth its fragrance.
DRC1:11
While the king was at his repose, my spikenard sent forth the odour thereof.
GNV1:11
Whiles the King was at his repast, my spikenard gaue the smelll thereof.
JPS
While the king sat at his table, my spikenard sent forth its fragrance.
LXXE
So long as the king was at table, my spikenard gave forth its smell.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
עַד־שֶׁ֤הַמֶּ֨לֶךְ֙ בִּמְסִבּ֔וֹ נִרְדִּ֖י נָתַ֥ן רֵיחֽוֹ׃
LXX-Br
Ἕως οὗ ὁ βασιλεὺς ἐν ἀνακλίσει αὐτοῦ· νάρδος μου ἔδωκεν ὀσμὴν αὐτοῦ.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • John 12:3Then Mary took about a pint of expensive perfume, made of pure nard, and she anointed Jesus’ feet and wiped them with her hair. And the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.
  • Revelation 3:20Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in and dine with him, and he with Me.
  • Mark 14:3While Jesus was in Bethany reclining at the table in the home of Simon the Leper, a woman came with an alabaster jar of expensive perfume, made of pure nard. She broke open the jar and poured it on Jesus’ head.
  • Philippians 4:18I have all I need and more, now that I have received your gifts from Epaphroditus. They are a fragrant offering, an acceptable sacrifice, well-pleasing to God.
  • Matthew 25:34Then the King will say to those on His right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.
  • Matthew 22:11But when the king came in to see the guests, he spotted a man who was not dressed in wedding clothes.
  • Matthew 22:4Again, he sent other servants and said, ‘Tell those who have been invited that I have prepared my dinner. My oxen and fattened cattle have been killed, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding banquet.’
  • Revelation 8:3–4Then another angel, who had a golden censer, came and stood at the altar. He was given much incense to offer, along with the prayers of all the saints, on the golden altar before the throne. And the smoke of the…
  • Song of Songs 4:13–16Your branches are an orchard of pomegranates with the choicest of fruits, with henna and nard, with nard and saffron, with calamus and cinnamon, with every kind of frankincense tree, with myrrh and aloes, with all the…
  • Matthew 26:26–28While they were eating, Jesus took bread, spoke a blessing and broke it, and gave it to the disciples, saying, “Take and eat; this is My body.” Then He took the cup, gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, “Drink…
  • Luke 24:30–32While He was reclining at the table with them, He took bread, spoke a blessing and broke it, and gave it to them. Then their eyes were opened and they recognized Jesus—and He disappeared from their sight. They asked…
  • Psalms 45:1My heart is stirred by a noble theme as I recite my verses to the king; my tongue is the pen of a skillful writer.
  • Song of Songs 7:5Your head crowns you like Mount Carmel, the hair of your head like purple threads; the king is captured in your tresses.

From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).

Verse numbering differs between Bibles
  • 1:11 in some Bibles
  • 1:12 in most Bibles

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