Song of Solomon 1:3
New International Version
Pleasing is the fragrance of your perfumes; your name is like perfume poured out. No wonder the young women love you!

New Living Translation
How pleasing is your fragrance; your name is like the spreading fragrance of scented oils. No wonder all the young women love you!

English Standard Version
your anointing oils are fragrant; your name is oil poured out; therefore virgins love you.

Berean Standard Bible
The fragrance of your perfume is pleasing; your name is like perfume poured out. No wonder the maidens adore you.

King James Bible
Because of the savour of thy good ointments thy name is as ointment poured forth, therefore do the virgins love thee.

New King James Version
Because of the fragrance of your good ointments, Your name is ointment poured forth; Therefore the virgins love you.

New American Standard Bible
“Your oils have a pleasing fragrance, Your name is like purified oil; Therefore the young women love you.

NASB 1995
“Your oils have a pleasing fragrance, Your name is like purified oil; Therefore the maidens love you.

NASB 1977
“Your oils have a pleasing fragrance, Your name is like purified oil; Therefore the maidens love you.

Legacy Standard Bible
Your oils have a pleasing fragrance, Your name is like purified oil; Therefore the maidens love you.

Amplified Bible
“The aroma of your oils is fragrant and pleasing; Your name is perfume poured out; Therefore the maidens love you.

Christian Standard Bible
The fragrance of your perfume is intoxicating; your name is perfume poured out. No wonder young women adore you.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The fragrance of your perfume is intoxicating; your name is perfume poured out. No wonder young women adore you.

American Standard Version
Thine oils have a goodly fragrance; Thy name is as oil poured forth; Therefore do the virgins love thee.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
For fragrance of your sweet ointments your name is fine oil of Myrrh, because of this the girls love you

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And the smell of thine ointments is better than all spices: thy name is ointment poured forth; therefore do the young maidens love thee.

Contemporary English Version
and you smell so sweet. All the young women adore you; the very mention of your name is like spreading perfume. *

Douay-Rheims Bible
Smelling sweet of the best ointments. Thy name is as oil poured out: therefore young maidens have loved thee.

English Revised Version
Thine ointments have a goodly fragrance; thy name is as ointment poured forth; therefore do the virgins love thee.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
better than the fragrance of cologne. (Cologne should be named after you.) No wonder the young women love you!

Good News Translation
There is a fragrance about you; the sound of your name recalls it. No woman could keep from loving you.

International Standard Version
The fragrance of your perfumed oil is wonderful. Your name is perfume poured out. Therefore the young women love you.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Thine ointments have a goodly fragrance; Thy name is as ointment poured forth; Therefore do the maidens love thee.

Literal Standard Version
For fragrance [are] your good perfumes. Perfume emptied out—your name, | Therefore have virgins loved you!

Majority Standard Bible
The fragrance of your perfume is pleasing; your name is like perfume poured out. No wonder the maidens adore you.

New American Bible
better than the fragrance of your perfumes. Your name is a flowing perfume— therefore young women love you.

NET Bible
The fragrance of your colognes is delightful; your name is like the finest perfume. No wonder the young women adore you!

New Revised Standard Version
your anointing oils are fragrant, your name is perfume poured out; therefore the maidens love you.

New Heart English Bible
Your oils have a pleasing fragrance. Your name is oil poured forth, therefore the virgins love you.

Webster's Bible Translation
Because of the savor of thy good ointments thy name is as ointment poured forth, therefore do the virgins love thee.

World English Bible
Your oils have a pleasing fragrance. Your name is oil poured out, therefore the virgins love you.

Young's Literal Translation
For fragrance are thy perfumes good. Perfume emptied out -- thy name, Therefore have virgins loved thee!

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
The Bride Confesses Her Love
2Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth! For your love is more delightful than wine. 3The fragrance of your perfume is pleasing; your name is like perfume poured out. No wonder the maidens adore you. 4Take me away with you—let us hurry! May the king bring me to his chambers. We will rejoice and delight in you; we will praise your love more than wine. It is only right that they adore you.…

Cross References
John 12:3
Then 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.

2 Corinthians 2:14
But thanks be to God, who always leads us triumphantly as captives in Christ and through us spreads everywhere the fragrance of the knowledge of Him.

2 Corinthians 2:15
For we are to God the sweet aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing.

Psalm 45:14
In colorful garments she is led to the king; her virgin companions are brought before you.

Ecclesiastes 7:1
A good name is better than fine perfume, and one's day of death is better than his day of birth.

Song of Solomon 4:10
How delightful is your love, my sister, my bride! Your love is much better than wine, and the fragrance of your perfume than all spices.

Song of Solomon 6:8
There are sixty queens and eighty concubines, and maidens without number,


Treasury of Scripture

Because of the smell of your good ointments your name is as ointment poured forth, therefore do the virgins love you.

the saviour

Song of Solomon 3:6
Who is this that cometh out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the merchant?

Song of Solomon 4:10
How fair is thy love, my sister, my spouse! how much better is thy love than wine! and the smell of thine ointments than all spices!

Song of Solomon 5:5,13
I 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…

thy name

Exodus 33:12,19
And Moses said unto the LORD, See, thou sayest unto me, Bring up this people: and thou hast not let me know whom thou wilt send with me. Yet thou hast said, I know thee by name, and thou hast also found grace in my sight…

Exodus 34:5-7
And the LORD descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD…

Psalm 89:15,16
Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O LORD, in the light of thy countenance…

the virgins

Song of Solomon 6:8
There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and virgins without number.

Psalm 45:14
She shall be brought unto the king in raiment of needlework: the virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought unto thee.

Matthew 25:1
Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom.

Jump to Previous
Anointing Emptied Forth Fragrance Fragrant Girls Good Goodly Love Maidens Oil Oils Ointment Ointments Perfume Perfumes Pleasing Poured Purified Running Savor Savour Smell Sweet Virgins Wonder Young
Jump to Next
Anointing Emptied Forth Fragrance Fragrant Girls Good Goodly Love Maidens Oil Oils Ointment Ointments Perfume Perfumes Pleasing Poured Purified Running Savor Savour Smell Sweet Virgins Wonder Young
Song of Solomon 1
1. the church's love unto Christ
5. She confesses her deformity
7. and prays to be directed, to his flock
8. Christ directs her to the shepherd's tents
9. and showing his love to her
11. gives her gracious promises
12. the church and Christ congratulate one another














(3) Because of the savour.--The general sense of this verse is plain, though grammatical difficulties render the literal translation doubtful. It should be divided into three clauses, not into two only, as in the Authorised Version: "Because of their odour (or, with regard to their fragrance) thy ointments (are) sweet." There is no authority for taking riach = sense of smell, or we should naturally translate "to the smell thy ointments are sweet." The rendering of the next clause, "thy name is (like) oil poured forth," is to be preferred, though it necessitates making either shemen = oil, or shem = name, feminine, for which there is no example, since the alternative, which takes t-rak = poured forth, second masculine instead of third feminine, is harsh: "Thou art poured forth like oil with regard to thy name." The image is an obvious one (comp. Ecclesiastes 7:1). There is a play on words in shemen and shemka.

Virgins.--Heb., alamoth; young girls. (See Note, Song of Solomon 6:8.) Those who understand Solomon to be the object of the desire expressed in these verses understand by alamoth "the ladies of the harem." In the original these three verses plainly form a stanza of five lines

Verse 3. - Thine ointments have a goodly fragrance; thy name is as ointment poured forth; therefore do the virgins love thee. There is some slight difference among critics as to the rendering of this verse, but it does not affect the meaning. Lovely and delightful thou art. As thy perfumes are so precious, so is thy name; the more it is spread, the more delight is found in it. The idea is that the person is the sweetest, and that his communications are elevating and inspiring. The "virgins" may be taken generally, "Those who are full of the sensibility of youth appreciate thy attractions." The word almah is much disputed about, but the meaning is simply that of "young woman," whether virgin or married. "Thou art the delight of all the young." Mason Good renders the verse -

"Rich thy perfumes; but richer far than they
The countless charms that round thy person play;
Thy name alone, more fragrant than the rose,
Glads every maid, where'er its fragrance flows."


Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
The fragrance
לְרֵ֙יחַ֙ (lə·rê·aḥ)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 7381: To smell, perceive odor

of your perfume
שְׁמָנֶ֣יךָ (šə·mā·ne·ḵā)
Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 8081: Grease, liquid, richness

is pleasing;
טוֹבִ֔ים (ṭō·w·ḇîm)
Adjective - masculine plural
Strong's 2896: Pleasant, agreeable, good

your name
שְׁמֶ֑ךָ (šə·me·ḵā)
Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 8034: A name

is like perfume
שֶׁ֖מֶן (še·men)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 8081: Grease, liquid, richness

poured out.
תּוּרַ֣ק (tū·raq)
Verb - Hofal - Imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 7324: Arm, cast out, draw out, make empty, pour forth out

No wonder
עַל־ (‘al-)
Preposition
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

the maidens
עֲלָמ֥וֹת (‘ă·lā·mō·wṯ)
Noun - feminine plural
Strong's 5959: A young woman, a virgin

adore you.
אֲהֵבֽוּךָ׃ (’ă·hê·ḇū·ḵā)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural | second person masculine singular
Strong's 157: To have affection f


Links
Song of Solomon 1:3 NIV
Song of Solomon 1:3 NLT
Song of Solomon 1:3 ESV
Song of Solomon 1:3 NASB
Song of Solomon 1:3 KJV

Song of Solomon 1:3 BibleApps.com
Song of Solomon 1:3 Biblia Paralela
Song of Solomon 1:3 Chinese Bible
Song of Solomon 1:3 French Bible
Song of Solomon 1:3 Catholic Bible

OT Poetry: Song of Solomon 1:3 Your oils have a pleasing fragrance (Song Songs SS So Can)
Song of Solomon 1:2
Top of Page
Top of Page