Song of Solomon 5:13
His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as sweet flowers: his lips like lilies, dropping sweet smelling myrrh.
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Barnes' Notes
Sweet flowers - Better as in the margin, i. e., plants with fragrant leaves and flowers trained on trellis-work. Like lilies - Are lilies dropping liquid myrrh (see the Son 5:5 note). Perhaps the…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
as a bed of spices Rather, as a bed of balsam shrubs. Probably we should read the plur. bedsas in Son 6:2, to correspond with the plur. cheeks. The Heb. for -bed" is -arûghâhderived from -âragh, -to…
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