Song of Solomon 3:6
Old Testament • 10 words with Strong's data
"Who is this that cometh out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the merchant?"
Word-by-Word Analysis
בּוֹא
bôwʼ
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
מִדְבָּר
midbâr
a pasture (i.e. open field, whither cattle are driven); by implication, a desert; also speech (including its organs)
דָּמָה
dâmâh
to compare; by implication, to resemble, liken, consider
עַמּוּד
ʻammûwd
a column (as standing); also a stand, i.e. platform
עָשָׁן
ʻâshân
smoke, literally or figuratively (vapor, dust, anger)
נוּף
nûwph
to quiver (i.e. vibrate up and down, or rock to and fro); used in a great variety of applications (including sprinkling, beckoning, rubbing, bastinado...
מֹר
môr
myrrh (as distilling in drops, and also as bitter)
לְבוֹנָה
lᵉbôwnâh
frankincense (from its whiteness or perhaps that of its smoke)
סָחַר
çâchar
to travel round (specifically as a pedlar); intensively, to palpitate
Key Terms in This Verse
נוּף nûwph
to quiver (i.e. vibrate up and down, or rock to and fro); used in a great variety of applications (including sprinkling, beckoning, rubbing, bastinadoing, sawing, waving, etc.)
Study H5130 →סָחַר çâchar
to travel round (specifically as a pedlar); intensively, to palpitate
Study H5503 →לְבוֹנָה lᵉbôwnâh
frankincense (from its whiteness or perhaps that of its smoke)
Study H3828 →מִדְבָּר midbâr
a pasture (i.e. open field, whither cattle are driven); by implication, a desert; also speech (including its organs)
Study H4057 →Cross References
Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? I raised thee up under the apple tree: there thy mother brought thee forth: there she brought thee forth that bare thee.
And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serp...
A bundle of myrrh is my well-beloved unto me; he shall lie all night betwixt my breasts.
Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, I will get me to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense.
Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.
Thus saith the LORD, The people which were left of the sword found grace in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest.
Because of the savour of thy good ointments thy name is as ointment poured forth, therefore do the virgins love thee.
And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.
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.
Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land that ...
His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as sweet flowers: his lips like lilies, dropping sweet smelling myrrh.
And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep ...
And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of saints.
But I have all, and abound: I am full, having received of Epaphroditus the things which were sent from you, an odour of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, wellpleasing to God.
And the LORD said unto Moses, Take unto thee sweet spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum; these sweet spices with pure frankincense: of each shall there be a like weight:
And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him: and when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts; gold,...
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