Songs 5:13
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His cheeks are as beds of aromatical spices set by the perfumers. His lips are as lilies dropping choice myrrh.

cheeks

Songs 1:10 We will make thee chains of gold, inlaid with silver.

Isaiah 50:6 I have given my body to the strikers, and my cheeks to them that plucked them: I have not turned away my face from them that rebuked me, and spit upon me.

as a

Psalm 4:6,7 The light of thy countenance, O Lord, is signed upon us: thou hast given gladness in my heart. . . .

Psalm 27:4 One thing I have asked of the Lord, this will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life. That I may see the delight of the Lord, and may visit his temple.

Psalm 89:15 Blessed is the people that knoweth jubilation. They shall walk, O Lord, in the light of thy countenance:

Revelation 21:23 And the city hath no need of the sun, nor of the moon, to shine in it. For the glory of God hath enlightened it: and the Lamb is the lamp thereof.

sweet flowers

Songs 3:6 Who is she that goeth up by the desert, as a pillar of smoke of aromatical spices, of myrrh, and frankincense, and of all the powders of the perfumer?

his lips

Songs 4:11 Thy lips, my spouse, are as a dropping honeycomb, honey and milk are under thy tongue; and the smell of thy garments, as the smell of frankincense.

Psalm 45:2 Thou art beautiful above the sons of men: grace is poured abroad in thy lips; therefore hath God blessed thee for ever.

Isaiah 50:4 The Lord hath given me a learned tongue, that I should know how to uphold by word him that is weary: he wakeneth in the morning, in the morning he wakeneth my ear, that I may hear him as a master.

Luke 4:22 And all gave testimony to him. And they wondered at the words of grace that proceeded from his mouth. And they said: Is not this the son of Joseph?

dropping

Songs 5:5 I arose up to open to my beloved: my hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers were full of the choicest myrrh.

Context
The Bride and Her Beloved
12His eyes as doves upon brooks of waters, which are washed with milk, and sit beside the plentiful streams. 13His cheeks are as beds of aromatical spices set by the perfumers. His lips are as lilies dropping choice myrrh.14His hands are turned and as of gold, full of hyacinths. His belly as of ivory, set with sapphires.…
Cross References
Songs 1:10
We will make thee chains of gold, inlaid with silver.

Songs 2:1
I am the flower of the field, and the lily of the valleys.

Songs 5:5
I arose up to open to my beloved: my hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers were full of the choicest myrrh.

Songs 6:2
My beloved is gone down into his garden, to the bed of aromatical spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies.

Lexicon
His cheeks
לְחָיָו֙ (lə·ḥā·yāw)
Noun - fdc | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3895: The cheek, the jaw-bone

are like beds
כַּעֲרוּגַ֣ת (ka·‘ă·rū·ḡaṯ)
Preposition-k | Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 6170: Something piled up, raised by mental aspiration), a paterre

of spice,
הַבֹּ֔שֶׂם (hab·bō·śem)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1314: Fragrance, spicery, the balsam plant

towers
מִגְדְּל֖וֹת (miḡ·də·lō·wṯ)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's Hebrew 4026: A tower, a rostrum, a, bed of flowers

of perfume.
מֶרְקָחִ֑ים (mer·qā·ḥîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 4840: Spice, perfume

His lips
שִׂפְתוֹתָיו֙ (śip̄·ṯō·w·ṯāw)
Noun - feminine plural construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 8193: The lip, language, a margin

are like lilies,
שֽׁוֹשַׁנִּ֔ים (šō·wō·šan·nîm)
Noun - common plural
Strong's Hebrew 7799: A lily, as a, flower of architectural ornament, a, trumpet

dripping
נֹטְפ֖וֹת (nō·ṭə·p̄ō·wṯ)
Verb - Qal - Participle - feminine plural
Strong's Hebrew 5197: To ooze, distil gradually, to fall in drops, to speak by inspiration

with flowing
עֹבֵֽר׃ (‘ō·ḇêr)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5674: To pass over, through, or by, pass on

myrrh.
מ֥וֹר (mō·wr)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4753: Myrrh


Additional Translations
His cheeks are like beds of spice, towers of perfume. His lips are like lilies, dripping with flowing myrrh.His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as sweet flowers: his lips like lilies, dropping sweet smelling myrrh.

His cheeks are as a bed of spices, As banks of sweet herbs: His lips are as lilies, dropping liquid myrrh.

His cheeks are as bowls of spices pouring forth perfumes: his lips are lilies, dropping choice myrrh.

His cheeks are as a bed of spices, raised beds of sweet plants; His lips lilies, dropping liquid myrrh.

His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as banks of sweet herbs: his lips are as lilies, dropping liquid myrrh.

His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as sweet flowers: his lips like lilies, dropping sweet-smelling myrrh.

His cheeks are like a bed of spices with towers of perfumes. His lips are like lilies, dropping liquid myrrh.

His cheeks as a bed of the spice, towers of perfumes, His lips are lilies, dropping flowing myrrh,
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