Song of Solomon 1:12 “While the king was at his table, my perfume spread its fragrance.”

Song of Solomon 1:12

While the king was at his table, my perfume spread its fragrance.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

While the king sitteth at his table, my spikenard sendeth forth the smell thereof.

World English Bible

While the king sat at his table, my perfume spread its fragrance.

American Standard Version

While the king sat at his table, My spikenard sent forth its fragrance.

Geneva Bible 1599

My welbeloued is as a bundle of myrrhe vnto me: he shall lie betweene my breasts.

Darby Translation

While the king is at his table, My spikenard sendeth forth its fragrance.

Young's Literal Translation

While the king [is] in his circle, My spikenard hath given its fragrance.

Bible in Basic English

While the king is seated at his table, my spices send out their perfume.

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Cross references

“the king”

Song of Solomon 7:5 Psalm 45:1 Matthew 22:11 Matthew 25:34

Song of Solomon 7:5 · BSB

Your head crowns you like Mount Carmel, the hair of your head like purple threads; the king is captured in your tresses.

Psalm 45:1 · BSB

My heart is stirred by a noble theme as I recite my verses to the king; my tongue is the pen of a skillful writer.

Matthew 22:11 · BSB

But when the king came in to see the guests, he spotted a man who was not dressed in wedding clothes.

Matthew 25:34 · BSB

Then 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.

“sitteth”

Revelation 3:20 Matthew 22:4 Matthew 26:26–28 Luke 24:30–32 Song of Solomon 4:16

Revelation 3:20 · BSB

Behold, 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.

Matthew 22:4 · BSB

Again, 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.’

Matthew 26:26–28 · BSB

While 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.”

Luke 24:30–32 · BSB

While He was reclining at the table with them, He took bread, spoke a blessing and broke it, and gave it to them.

Song of Solomon 4:16 · BSB

Awake, O north wind, and come, O south wind. Breathe on my garden and spread the fragrance of its spices. Let my beloved come into his garden and taste its choicest fruits.

“my”

John 12:3 Song of Solomon 4:13–16 Philippians 4:18 Revelation 8:3 Revelation 8:4

John 12:3 · BSB

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.

Song of Solomon 4:13–16 · BSB

Your branches are an orchard of pomegranates with the choicest of fruits, with henna and nard,

Philippians 4:18 · BSB

I 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.

Revelation 8:3 · BSB

Then 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.

Revelation 8:4 · BSB

And the smoke of the incense, together with the prayers of the saints, rose up before God from the hand of the angel.

Also

Mark 14:3

Mark 14:3 · BSB

While 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.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

11We will make you ornaments of gold, studded with beads of silver.

13My beloved is to me a sachet of myrrh resting between my breasts.

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